Portraiture Tips
The 28 to 90mm (35mm equivalent) lens of the Digilux
2 is ideal for photographing people, The wide angle
view coupled with fast auto focus, accurate auto
exposure, and virtually noiseless operation allow you
to capture the most fleeting of moments. For more
formal portraiture, the longer focal lengths and manual
controls give you the freedom to be creative. While an
entire book may be dedicated to just portraiture, we
will focus on a handful of techniques well suited to the
Leica Digilux 2.
Outdoor Portraits
When shooting outdoors, there are a few tips to follow
that will help make a more pleasing portrait:
•Use Aperture Priority exposure mode to the widest
aperture possible. (Even at the widest aperture, the
Digilux will have more depth of field than an equivalent
35mm lens due to the smaller than 35mm sensor).
•In most cases, the Auto or Daylight color temperature
settings will be best.
•Manual focus mode will give more control
•If shooting in shade, you may use the built-in flash as
a fill light.
Composition tips:
•If possible situate yourself in an area that is shaded
from direct sun to reduce the effects of flare, and try
not to have your subject in the open sunlight.
•Try to keep distracting objects in the background from
competing with your main subject.
•Practice using the bounce flash as a fill light to add
to the shadow exposure. The bounce flash adds a nicer
catch light in the eyes, and is not prone to the red eye
effect.
Indoor Portraiture
Shooting portraits indoors is always a challenge, as
interiors are almost always mixed light situations, and
are also often low light situations. The trick to success-
ful indoor portraiture is to learn to evaluate the scene
in terms of camera settings. Of course, you may always
set the camera to fully automatic flash mode, but your
images will be less interesting.
As we have mentioned before, you may take multiple
approaches to your picture taking sessions. You may
easily take a few images in automatic mode, and then
switch to manual mode to try some more creative ap-
proaches. The greatest benefit to digital photography
is the ability to shoot and evaluate unlimited images.
Here are a few guidelines you may follow as you ex-
plore indoor portraiture:
•If you are shooting in interiors with light colored stan-
dard height ceilings, the built-in bounce flash is a great
tool to both help with exposure, and to correct color
balance. Using the bounce flash helps in two ways: the
daylight color temperature helps insure accurate skin
tones, and the additional light helps enhance shadow
detail.
•If you are shooting in large interior spaces with high
ceilings the bounce flash will not be effective. While
using the direct flash would tend to overpower the
ambient light, there is another option with the built-in
flash. By using the built-in flash along with manual
exposure settings, you may fine tune the balance be-
tween ambient light and the flash exposure.
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