Make your subjects look their best with our professional portrait photography tips, covering lighting setups, location scouting and tips for working with models.
Want to bring out the best in your photographs? Offering a little TLC to the tiniest details hidden within the darkest portions of a composition can make a substantial difference in the look and feel of a photograph. The question is, how do you “open up” an image while retaining a natural appearance? Phlearn founder Aaron Nace […]
Portrait retouching is serious stuff. A lot of the times amateur retouching mistakes can completely destroy an otherwise good image. Simple things like choosing the right tools, deciding on which effects to apply and how much, can make all the difference between a great portrait image and one that is a train wreck. Nino Batista […]
There are four aspects that cover the essentials of studio lighting with a softbox: color temperature, quantity of light, quality of the light, and direction of light. When setting up your lights in a studio these are the four aspects that you have to take care of. Jeff Rojas explains: For this tutorial, no additional […]
LEDs aren’t the most perfect lighting tools for studio portraits. But they do offers some advantages when shooting portraits in a studio environment. Jay P. Morgan demonstrates this by using LED lights to recreate the magic of the 1920s: Advantages of Using LEDs With an LED light, you get to see exactly what you’re going […]
The iPhone X, the Samsung Galaxy Note 8, and the Google Pixel 2 are some of the latest and the greatest smartphone cameras out there. They handle pretty much all types of light and produce incredible images. But can they compete with “proper” cameras? Marques Brownlee compares smartphone camera portrait modes with the Hasselblad X1D: The […]
A beauty dish creates harsh, directional light. It doesn’t actually produce beautiful light. And yet it’s called a beauty dish! I you haven’t yet mastered how to consistently create good light, a beauty dish will only accentuate your lack of knowledge and your subject’s skin flaws. So when and how should you use a beauty […]
“We receive so many comments that say something along the lines of, ‘I take great portraits of my friends, but they never take any great portraits of me.’” Mango Street created this video to demonstrate how they work around not having a photographer for portraits. In this case, the two of them work to create […]
Looking to have a little bit of fun with your camera this holiday season? As it turns out, all it takes is a spare set of string lights to really bring a photograph to life: Irene Rudnyk shows her followers just how easy it is to put together an imaginative setup from the comfort of her […]
“The worst thing an artist can get is indifference,” claims veteran photographer Jay P Morgan. Most photographers share this sentiment. Ideally, you want your images to evoke some sort of emotion or idea. But it’s not immediately obvious how to go about creating the intangible in a single, still photograph. You may not be surprised to learn that […]
One of photography’s most alluring qualities is its ability to transform our ordinary world into something extraordinary. With a camera in hand, bringing to life one’s imagination becomes a real possibility. This short yet in-depth tutorial featuring Gavin Hoey proves just how far some attention to detail and a bit of ingenuity can take an image: Though he’s […]
