“Do you have any tips on posing for portraits?” This question hit my inbox earlier in the week and I shot the reader back a few links to tutorials that we’ve written on the topic of posing for portraits. I thought that the list of posts might be useful to others too so have included [...]
A Guest Post by Tam Steele Daly We’ve all heard the saying, even in photography, that the only people out in the midday sun are – Mad dogs, Englishmen and Wedding photographers! Well after years of following that train of thought I decided to play around with the idea of not being beaten, by the [...]
A Guest Post by Steph Tan. Among the many different photo shoots one can do, I’ve always considered newborn photography as one of the most challenging. Having great equipment and great technical know-how is never enough. For me, this is the genre of photography where the human touch is most important. Here are a few [...]
Pin It For a photographer, skills in family portraits are are essential and are usually the bread and butter for up and coming photographers. Looking at the history of photography, one of the first popular uses the camera was not for abstract art, or photographing the family pet, but for photographing people and their families. [...]
A Guest post by Jacinda Setiawan This is one of my favorite compositional techniques: it is something I do a lot. I think it’s becoming a signature part of my style. I didn’t realize this until a photographer friend showed me a photo he had taken (utilizing this technique) and showed it to me saying it [...]
Photo blaine davis Note: this post is an extract from our Essential Portrait Photography Tips E-book – Grab Your Copy Today! On the birth of our first child we were given by a friend a gift certificate for a photographic family portrait. The deal included one photo shoot in a studio and some prints. While [...]
A Guest Post by Heather Bettison at Digital-Photography-Advisor.com. Has buying the right studio lighting setup stopped you from taking your portrait photography seriously? It shouldn’t. You can take great portraits with natural light. Photography is about light. Learning how to see light is essential to developing your photographic eye. When taking pictures, being able to [...]
Apologies Readers but the original article that appeared here has been removed at the request of the Author. We apologise for any inconvenience caused. However – don’t fear – there’s plenty of great posts in our archives to read on the topic of portraiture that are not going anywhere. How to Take Portraits – 19 [...]
Outdoor Portraits present portrait photographers a variety of challenges and opportunities. Today James Pickett from America the Lost suggests 13 tips to help you with your outdoor portrait work. With my very first digital SLR there was a sigh of relief, everything was going to be so much easier now and I didn’t have to [...]
A Guest Post by Desmond Louw I just love street photography and with this comes street portraiture. It can be a bit daunting to go up to a stranger and ask them to take their photo, but after a day or two it becomes addictive! Here are some tricks that might make it a bit [...]
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