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<blockquote data-quote="Exodist" data-source="post: 1575631" data-attributes="member: 284358"><p>First lets ask. Do you know anything about photography and how your camera works. Now dont take this the wrong way. I am honestly not trying to sound rude, but this will help us know your knowledge level to better help you.</p><p></p><p>I am going to assume the worse and try to work my way from here to help you.</p><p>Before I begin I would like to say the 3200 is more then enough of a camera for indoor/studio portraits. Don't let anyone tell you other wise.</p><p></p><p>First off the "grainy" look I am going to assume is from your camera using a High ISO to compensate for poor lighting. </p><p></p><p>But lets first start by explaining the exposer triangle. You have your lens Aperture on one corner, the ISO sensitivity on another and shutter speed on the last. If you adjust anyone of these, your exposure changes. </p><p></p><p>It is generally a good practice to keep your ISO low as possible. 100 being the normal low for most cameras will offer the least amount if any noise. This is even more important when shooting in lower light conditions.</p><p></p><p>Now your lens Aperture determines your over all depth of field. For outdoor portraits you generally want to get the largest aperture you can. f/1.8 is about standard and offers a nice blurred background behind your subject. However in studio photography, its generally a practice to have your lets from about f/5.6 to f.7.1. This is because the quality of your image can be better at those apertures in most lens and you want as much of the subject and the background in focus as much as possible.</p><p></p><p>Last is your shutter speed. You always want your shutter speed faster then say your focal length. Since you D3200 using a 1.5 APS-C cropped sensor, we would need to know your lens focal length. But for example if you have a 50mm lens just say (50 x 1.5 = 75mm). Which means you want to keep your Shutter Speed at 1/75th of a sec or faster to prevent movement blur (your movement not the subject). Faster the better, and a tripod is recommend. If however your wanting to freeze say a sports car or a basketball player in actions 1/500th or faster may be required.</p><p></p><p>Now if you follow these rules and your exposure is still to dark, you need to increase lighting. Many professional soft boxes alone can put out over 1500watts of lighting and many times multiple ones may be required.</p><p></p><p>Hope this helps..</p><p></p><p>Joe</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Exodist, post: 1575631, member: 284358"] First lets ask. Do you know anything about photography and how your camera works. Now dont take this the wrong way. I am honestly not trying to sound rude, but this will help us know your knowledge level to better help you. I am going to assume the worse and try to work my way from here to help you. Before I begin I would like to say the 3200 is more then enough of a camera for indoor/studio portraits. Don't let anyone tell you other wise. First off the "grainy" look I am going to assume is from your camera using a High ISO to compensate for poor lighting. But lets first start by explaining the exposer triangle. You have your lens Aperture on one corner, the ISO sensitivity on another and shutter speed on the last. If you adjust anyone of these, your exposure changes. It is generally a good practice to keep your ISO low as possible. 100 being the normal low for most cameras will offer the least amount if any noise. This is even more important when shooting in lower light conditions. Now your lens Aperture determines your over all depth of field. For outdoor portraits you generally want to get the largest aperture you can. f/1.8 is about standard and offers a nice blurred background behind your subject. However in studio photography, its generally a practice to have your lets from about f/5.6 to f.7.1. This is because the quality of your image can be better at those apertures in most lens and you want as much of the subject and the background in focus as much as possible. Last is your shutter speed. You always want your shutter speed faster then say your focal length. Since you D3200 using a 1.5 APS-C cropped sensor, we would need to know your lens focal length. But for example if you have a 50mm lens just say (50 x 1.5 = 75mm). Which means you want to keep your Shutter Speed at 1/75th of a sec or faster to prevent movement blur (your movement not the subject). Faster the better, and a tripod is recommend. If however your wanting to freeze say a sports car or a basketball player in actions 1/500th or faster may be required. Now if you follow these rules and your exposure is still to dark, you need to increase lighting. Many professional soft boxes alone can put out over 1500watts of lighting and many times multiple ones may be required. Hope this helps.. Joe [/QUOTE]
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