Make your subjects look their best with our professional portrait photography tips, covering lighting setups, location scouting and tips for working with models.
It’s easy to overthink studio lighting and become convinced that you need elaborate equipment setups that include multiple strobes and reflector panels, all meticulously positioned and expensive to boot. However, as portrait photographer and Adobe Photoshop expert Glyn Dewis explains in the following short tutorial, making compelling portraits with just one light source is not only easily possible, but also incredibly effective. Watch his technique […]
On Boxing Day, Patrick Hall from Fstoppers headed out to the gun range to photograph ordinary Americans flaunting their new Christmas presents. The idea started out as a sort of a dare, but Hall took it seriously making it his next photo project: The setup was simple, an Avengers stand to hang a 8 foot […]
It’s a common refrain in photography: “Keep your back to the sun.” You generally want to shoot with the light, so it helps brighten up your image. But shooting against the sun—where the sun is behind your subject, or even visible in the photograph—can lead to great results, too, often with stark shadows and awesome contrast. Here’s a […]
From Cuba, travel and adventure photographer Brendan van Son filmed this short video to describe nine of his most tried-and-true practices for shooting portraits abroad. If you’re an aspiring travel or portrait photographer, you’re going to want to tune in: Brendan van Son might not be the most well known travel photographer, but he’s definitely gathered up some wisdom from his […]
Who says flash portraits have to be complicated? This new in-depth tutorial ebook by Gina Milicia proves that flash photography can be simple and still produce amazing results. It covers everything from choosing and using gear to specific lighting setups to troubleshooting. Found here: Fast Flash for Portrait Perfection Fast Flash was designed for photographers who […]
What happens when you try to take a portrait of a wild animal in captivity? Take look as National Geographic photographer Joel Sartore gives us a glimpse of what he goes through all in a day’s work: It may seem a bit weird to be trying to capture professional portraits of animals who’d rather be […]
Photographer Eva Creel demonstrates how you can make creative use of speedlight gels to capture a scene that imbibes a sense of cold and fog and then bring everything together to transform into photographic magic: Creel sets up three speed lights for the shoot. The first is the key light that illuminates the model’s face. […]
A thin long strip of LED lights, a camera-lens combo, a tripod, and a lot of imagination: that’s all you need to replicate this rather interesting lighting effect. If you shoot funky portraits for a living or you’re bored doing chin-up formal shoots, Gavin Hoey and Mark Wallace have something that will bring a smile […]
Do you shoot portraits with umbrellas? Most professionals opt for softboxes instead—but to overlook the power of umbrellas is a huge oversight. At least that’s what Daniel Norton thinks. In this video, he explains why: Norton shoots six different 41″ umbrellas, keeping both his camera and model in the same positions to illustrate exactly how different each […]
A lot of us don’t like the way we look in photos. Despite what it says about our collective self-esteem (not to mention an oversaturation of perfect body types and societal pressure to look a certain way), we are always striving to look better, healthier, and thinner in photos. That’s where Peter Hurley speaks right to […]
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