01 CAMERA CONTROLS
These tend to be our stock exposure settings for outdoor portraits: Manual mode, shutter speed 1/250 sec, aperture f/4, Auto ISO. This way the shutter speed will be fast enough to freeze the action, and the wide aperture blurs the backdrop.
02 MOVE AROUND
Take a series of shots of the face; you’ll need at least 20. Move around slightly as you shoot to get different angles. Try adding variety with your focus point; perhaps focus on the closest eye in one frame, and the furthest eye in the next.
03 SUBJECT MOVEMENT
As well as shifting your camera position, ask your subject to move between frames. Shoot them straight on, capture their profile, or position them at 45 degrees. For a strong shape to your collage,…