Make your subjects look their best with our professional portrait photography tips, covering lighting setups, location scouting and tips for working with models.
When taking headshots, it’s essential that your subjects look composed and confident. And as a photographer, it’s your duty to make sure that happens. In this video by B&H, portrait photographer Peter Hurley shares five pro tips to help you take better headshots: 1. Keep it Simple When taking headshots, the key is to keep […]
We all know that photography is about capturing light. We all know that the basic setup for a portrait requires three lights. Now for the ugly part: buying good quality studio portrait lights is expensive! Enter photography reflectors. If you can’t afford to get a top quality three light system, the best option is to […]
High key portrait photography is a style of photography that utilizes bright lighting to blow out the dark shadows in an image. The images are thus relatively flat and lack most tonal variations. When done correctly, high-key portraits result in images with an elegant and premium look. However, when it comes to photographing high-key images, […]
Gobo in photography is something that comes in front of a light source. It could basically be anything. The only requirement is that it needs to pass some light through it while blocking the rest. By doing so, it creates a pattern of light and shadows and that is what we seek when using a […]
What makes fine art portrait photography different from regular portrait photography is that the former has more artistic value. And for a portrait to be considered more valuable, there are some very important factors that you can’t ignore. As photographer Jiggie Alejandrino outlines in this video, the most important ones are the type of background, […]
Today, let’s get a bit into portrait photography. Here are two quick tips for you. Though they may seem minor, they can make a HUGE difference in the effectiveness of your portraits. Who knows, maybe you’ll start winning some of those photo contests! Today’s first tip involves photographing people’s joints. No, I am not talking […]
Your backgrounds play an important role in adding depth to your portraits. But, when you work in a small home studio, you may not have the flexibility of working with different backgrounds. That does not mean that you’re stuck with whatever you’ve got. Photographer Gavin Hoey from Adorama shows you how you can use fake […]
Softboxes and reflectors are the most common types of light modifiers that photographers use. While a softbox is a directional light source, reflectors are used to instead bounce light. Both of these light modifiers thus have unique traits of their own. In today’s video, photographer Daniel Norton from Adorama compares these light sources when used […]
This new in-depth course walks photographers through three private workshops, each of which is designed to teach how to capture professional enchanting portraits with simple props. The whole process from preparation to photo editing. The instructors are having a birthday sale today in case you want to check it out. Deal ending soon: Fairytale Portraits […]
In the past, the only way you could take images with a shallow depth of field while shooting on-location with flash was by using a neutral density (ND) filter. Otherwise, the shutter speed would exceed the camera’s flash sync-speed and you couldn’t take pictures. However, with the introduction of high-speed sync (HSS) flashes, life’s a […]
