Tag Archives: portrait
6 Types of Portrait Backgrounds for Creative Images
There are many options when choosing backgrounds for your portraits. You can pretty much do anything you want. The key to remember though is lighting and positioning your subjects in relation to that background. Whether that be natural or artificial … Continue reading
5 Tips to Improve Your Portrait Photos
In this 7-minute video, photographer Craig Beckta has 5 tips that will help improve your portrait photos drastically. ? #1 Use Off-Camera Flash “The larger the light source and the closer it is to your subject, the softer the light,” says Beckta. … Continue reading
Lighting and Direction Tips for Portrait Photography
“A camera adds ten pounds.” This saying is quite popular for a reason. How people look in a photograph is determined by how they react to a camera in front of them and by the lighting setup that the photographer … Continue reading
How to Survive Portrait Sessions with Difficult Children
In this article, you’ll get some tips on how to survive photo sessions with difficult children. When you imagine photographing your client’s family session, you envision taking beautiful photographs in a pretty location and getting all of those great photos … Continue reading
Best portrait lens 2018: fast prime lenses for Canon and Nikon DSLRs
Everybody wants to look good on paper, especially when the paper in question happens to be a photo print. So what kind of lens makes people look their best? With a full-frame Canon or Nikon DSLR, an 85mm prime lens … Continue reading
How to Improve Your Landscape Photography By Understanding Portrait Lighting
The further I have gone on my photography journey, the more I have come to learn about the importance of understanding light. I believe light is the single most important element that makes a photograph. Not a great subject. Not … Continue reading
Portrait Sharpening Photoshop Tutorial
The typical way to sharpen a photo in post-production involves global sharpening. But you have the subject’s eyes, their clothing, facial hair, and so on to think about. You don’t necessarily want to sharpen all of these elements to the … Continue reading
How to Use a White Backdrop with Studio Portrait Photos
A white wall is more versatile than you might think. If you have a perfectly white wall in your studio (or you can create one using some props) you have a background that you can manipulate to create any number … Continue reading
Black and White Portrait Photography Tips
There are no hiding places in a black and white portrait. With no distraction from color, the physical characteristics of the subject are revealed. Monochrome exposes intimate details such as bone structure, texture, and expression to a much greater level … Continue reading
How to Create a Dynamic Light Painting Portrait
Do you want a bit of action and dynamism in your portrait photography? Using your strobe to light your model in a portrait, while combining this with medium to long exposure can give you amazing results! A light painting portrait … Continue reading
Five Budget Portrait Photography Hacks to Save You Money
We all love some good photography hacks, and what better than some for portraits. Photography is such a great and fun artistic journey and there is always something new to try, or rather, buy. However, taking great portraits can be … Continue reading
8 Smartphone Portrait Tips
While traditionalists may be quick to denounce the merit of iphoneography, the fact of the matter is that the tiny camera installed on our cell phones is by far the handiest tool a photographer has at their disposal. Nothing can … Continue reading