What is the Best Camera Setting for Outdoor Portraits? (WITH EXAMPLES!)

Chris Romans
14 min readJun 21, 2019

Last Updated: August 9th, 2019

The goal of this story is to answer the question: what is the best camera setting for outdoor portraits?

In the real world, there is no one size fits all camera setting that will just work for every photo you take. Instead, we are going to give you the outdoor portrait photography tips and tricks you need in order to find the best settings on your own.

To do this, we’ll be discussing the most important things you need to set to take a picture (ISO, aperture, shutter speed, white balance) to help you understand how these things work together to take a great photo.

From there, we’ll cover lighting and composition in a way that helps you start to see how these things have a HUGE impact on your portrait images.

Lastly — we’ll give you example camera settings with corresponding pictures we have taken to help you visualize what the result can look like.

With all of this information combined — you should feel empowered to go outside and shoot portraits the way you want. You will be able to get great looking portraits!!

If this post helps you — let us know in the comments at the end!!

Outdoor Portrait Photography…

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Chris Romans

I co-run Formed From Light, and am one half of the husband-and-wife team that makes up Hand + Arrow Photography. Blogs at FFL: https://formedfromlight.com/