When in studio, you’ll be able to raise your shutter speed fairly high in order to acquire sharper images, with the use of a strobe system. I typically find it best to shoot around 1/400. This removes any motion blur and always produces sharp images.

Aperture is very important in deciding what you would like to be in focus. Something to note is, the higher the aperture the wider your focus range will be. Lower apertures produce are good if you want a blurry background, similar to “portrait mode” on iPhone’s. I like to keep my aperture around between 1.8 to 5.6.

ISO controls your camera’s sensitivity to light. Lower ISO’s are ideal as the lower the ISO the less noise your image is subject to. Each camera has a different threshold on how high you can make your ISO without having noise in your image. I shoot with a Sony A7RIV primarily and typically try to stay below ISO 800. Most cameras can go up to 3200 without any issues and will have minimal noise.

5500k-6000k (the lower the number, the warmer the colors. We recommend setting white balance manually instead of relying on auto white balance. This makes all the photos you’ll shoot consistent in color, which helps editing speed)