Make your subjects look their best with our professional portrait photography tips, covering lighting setups, location scouting and tips for working with models.
Canadian photographer Ryan Doco Connors shows the versatility of a one light setup in a short video he made documenting a photo shoot in which four models represented the four elements. To photograph wind, fire, water, and earth Connors employed his Nikon D300 with Nikkor 85mm f/1.8, a 50′ Wescot Apollo softbox, and a single […]
Forget Mugshots: 10 Steps to Better Portraits by David duChemin aims to help you take your portrait photography to the professional level. The author tried to pick the ten most significant factors that, combined, contribute to making powerful portraits. With valuable insights and many exercises to retain the information, it is a great training resource. […]
Professional advertising photographer, Julius Ise had long held the desire to attempt black light photography. Black light photography involves shooting subjects under ultra violet lights and excluding most if not all, visible light. The results are often highly colored and powerful looking images. The final result is a collection of very striking and colorful images and an excellent demonstration of the effects of black light photography.
Portrait lighting tips article coming soon.
As a photographer, you never know when the perfect opportunity to take photograph is going to come around. You have to always be prepared for the unexpected. For a portrait photographer who is used to working with a full studio light setup, that can be very tricky. To make matters worse, when photographer Eric Schwabel wanted to photograph The Burning Man festival in 2010, he had to add sweltering temperatures and frequent dust storms to the equation. Schwabel’s remedy to the discouraging elements was to construct a suit to hold his two Profoto Pro-b2 kits and Pro-7 heads. You can see the rig and some of his stunning results here.
It has been many years since I used to shoot portrait portfolios for Hollywood hopefuls, but many of the tricks I learned back then I have used ever since when shooting everything from people to bugs. Even if you never do a model shoot, all the tips in this list will help you in just […]
Portrait photography is the one in which the face and the expression of the subject is predominant. The aim is to exhibit the personality and the mood of the subject. Here are the top 10 tips in creating unique images: Alter Your Viewpoint – The portraits are generally captured with the camera at or around the eye level of the subject. So when you change the angle that you shoot from, your portrait acquires a sensational factor. You can either get up high and shoot down on your subject or get as near to the floor as you can and shoot up. This way you’ll be shooting your subject from an angle that is certain to create attention.
Before you take your next portrait, consider the following. Location Where is the photo session going to take place? Is it indoors or outdoors? If it is indoors, is it a residential setup or a corporate office? How much light is available and what other types of lights should you consider: tungsten, fluorescent, or others? […]
It takes a lot of concentration and skill to work successfully with people in photography. Landscape or nature photography affords you the luxury of time. People don’t. Whether they get fidgety and bored easily or they don’t want to sit there all day and roll with your creative urge, portraits require relationship skills as well […]
If you want to photograph your subject from head to toe carefully choose your aperture setting to allow your subject to be totally in focus. If you are still shooting wide open at a 2.8 for instance, your depth of field is too shallow to have your subject in full focus. Close down your aperture to about a 5.6, don’t take your shutter speed lower than 1/125 because it will cause blur, increase your ISO to 200 and see if you can bring enough light in to get a great shot. This is assuming you are shooting in shade or at dusk or both. These settings are suggestions to get you to understand what I am saying, so play around with different combination’s to find out what works best.
