Make your subjects look their best with our professional portrait photography tips, covering lighting setups, location scouting and tips for working with models.
Interested in improving your portrait photography skills? How about a character shoot? How about some indoor snow? Gavin Hoey demonstrates a tutorial for a little red riding hood themed photo shoot in the following video: Hoey starts with a test shot with his basic setup. He’s shooting with a Canon EOS 5D Mark II equipped […]
What makes a portrait prize-worthy? Contest judges are faced with this difficult question every year when hundreds of photographers from around the world vie for the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize, which “celebrates and promotes the very best in contemporary portrait photography.” This year’s competition saw breathtaking entries from many genres, including editorial, advertising, and fine […]
Portrait photography article coming soon.
Are you capturing your brides in the best light? Get eight pro tips for taking your bridal photography from standard to stunning. Plus, gain the lighting, posing, styling and composition skills to deliver exquisite portraits every bride will want to buy when you enroll in award-winning wedding photographer Kathryn Krueger’s online Craftsy class Beautiful Bridal […]
The images that you are about to see are the fruits of one man’s childhood dream. Carl Pendle always dreamed of owning a Hasselblad 500 series camera. There was something about that old clunky square format camera that obsessed him. Despite his venture into a different genre of photography, Pendle’s childhood love for the Hasselblad […]
There are many things to consider when it comes to capturing a great corporate image. Prepping the set to get it right is very important, but the real success of the shot lies in finding the right talent to be the face of the company. Jay P. Morgan takes us on location at a corporate shoot in […]
Sometimes we humans think of ourselves as alone in the universe—there’s no one and nothing else that feels the way we do. Funny thing is, it’s a lot less true than we think. Check out this album of “family portraits” and see if it doesn’t pull on your heartstrings a little: Most of us who […]
How do you create a stylized shot of a girl with an umbrella in hand being blown by the wind? To make matters a bit more challenging, how do you create such a shot in a studio environment? This interesting video tutorial takes you step-by-step to show how it can be done: The video takes […]
Post processing isn’t about completely transforming an image, it’s about bringing your portraits closer to what you see in your minds eye. When you have real confidence in your own workflow you’ll be able to share your own creative vision with those around you. This new eBook is all about giving you the confidence and […]
Glamorous studio lighting is not only for celebrities and models. Add a soft glow and polished finish to your own portraiture with continuous clamshell lighting. Photographer Terry White explains the potential of this simple but effective studio lighting style: Appropriately named, clamshell lighting uses two opposing light sources—one from above and the other from below— […]
