Make your subjects look their best with our professional portrait photography tips, covering lighting setups, location scouting and tips for working with models.
The pop and blur technique is nothing new. Photographers have been using it ever since artificial lights and built-in flashes came into use. It’s basically about popping the flash and then moving the camera or the subject during the exposure to induce motion blur. Whether you want to pop first and then blur or vice […]
Behind the scenes videos can be a great way to to get a feel for different types of photo shoots. They give us an insider’s perspective on how things are done on set and can inspire us to get out and take some photographs ourselves. The behind the scenes video Dan Horne made documenting his photo shoot […]
Yet another beautiful young lady strides confidently through the plaza with her cotton summer dress dancing in all the right ways. Her auburn hair streams out behind in perfect step with the undulations of her dress and sparkles in the midday sun. As a photographer, you can’t help but marvel at her poise and sense […]
There are some moments in life that last only a second, and occasionally such a moment is captured by someone with a camera. This moment shows a girl taking a photo of herself with her phone amongst a crowd of people at a concert. What makes this image so interesting is that everyone else in […]
Are you looking for portrait photography tips so that you can improve your picture taking skills? At first thought, portrait photography would seem easy, yet the results are often disappointing. Many of our pictures often include people, and whether you are photographing a model, taking a family photo, or capturing some candid shots while on […]
Anyone who uses artificial light is used to working with key lights, but what they may not have played around with is the art of using motivated lights as their main light sources. In the video below, Jay P. Morgan shows us just how beautiful motivational key lighting can be: What is a Motivated Light? […]
Studio lights are an exciting proposition for any photographer, simply because there is so much that you can do with them. In this video tutorial, photographer Gavin Hoey shows us exactly how to nail a studio lighting setup and then make the most of it. The final bit of the video also manages to squeeze […]
Whether it’s taking pictures of models, our friends, kids, partners or even ourselves—for a lot of photographers, people are what we’re looking at through the viewfinder (or on the LCD) when we line up a shot. Yet so many of us struggle to take portraits with the professional ‘WOW factor’. This comprehensive set of ebooks was […]
Lighting is tricky. Mixed lighting is trickier, and in most cases avoided. But learning to control mixed lighting can help you create a distinct look to your photographs. In this short video, Jaroslav Wieczorkiewicz explains how to used mixed lighting in the sense of both the type of light, flash and continuous, and in the […]
Converting color images into black and white is a fun process, especially if you know what you’re doing. But most photographers are shy of getting their hands wet because of the sheer complexity and workload. Hopefully this video by Andrew S. Gibson will clear the air around the process: Convert to Black & White The […]
