It's been a while since we last placed the spotlight on the stunning portrait photography project and workshop of Mexico-based JP Stones, which showcase the rich and vibrant Aztec culture. He has since continued with the project, adding another dimension to it with a current focus on recreating Aztec myths.
Last time we tagged along the nighttime shoots of Marseille-based self-taught photographer Arnaud Moro, we saw him work with a lot of dreamy and fitting locations for stunning night portraits. Each snap showed us exactly why chasing city lights after dark can often lead to some great results and unique portraits.
Any photographer will tell you that noon is the worst time to shoot portraits because of the harsh light of the sun and unflattering shadows it casts. But if you absolutely have no choice but to shoot in that light (like when you're on assignment and on a tight schedule), these tips and tricks from boudoir photographer Michael Sasser should help you get some good photos.
Nighttime has been fast becoming a favorite time of the day for many photographers to shoot portraits and fashion editorials for a number of good reasons. First, there's the enduring trend of neon portraits, thanks to the style popularized by Brandon Woelfel, bold design directions, futuristic concepts, and some pop culture references.
We've previously seen Greek architect, urban planner, and photographer Andreas Theologitis depart from his "natural" environment of geometry and architecture to begin an emotive conceptual series called Beyond Dark.
Whatever your photography genre of choice, we're sure you're curious if the rangefinder style Fujifilm GFX 50R would be a great tool to elevate your art and craft with. Today, we bring an answer to all you portrait and fashion photographers out there.
I’ve been fortunate enough to present portrait work to some of my favorite personalities. Initially, I figured it would just be a clever way to use my artwork to meet some of my heroes. A year later, it has turned into an on-going project that has resulted in unique encounters, constant hustle, and endless Photoshop. […]
I’ve been fortunate enough to present portrait work to some of my favorite personalities. Initially, I figured it would just be a clever way to use my artwork to meet some of my heroes. A year later, it has turned into an on-going project that has resulted in unique encounters, constant hustle, and endless Photoshop. […]
Over the decades, America has become home to Latin Americans who have settled in the country. For those that left their nation behind, they have brought new culture - whilst trying to adjust to expectations put on them in the place they now call home.
Feel like getting a little experimental with your portrait and fashion photography? One way to do it is to play around with colors. Munich-based Elizaveta Porodina is certainly one of the photographers who we can take a page from, as we can see in this playful fashion editorial from 2017.
Infrared photography is specialized genre of photography that doesn't appeal to everyone, but there is no doubt that infrared images can be quite stunning. Since Kodak Aerochrome film is hard to come by these days, one photographer decided that he wanted to be able to bring this type of photography to the masses without having to have a camera conversion, and without having to spend over $80 on one roll of Kodak Aerochrome.
We are often told that the most effective and compelling portraits are those that make us feel. In that case, the work of Russian photographer Dmitri Pryahin easily achieves -- and exceeds even -- our expectations.
Here are the notes I kept a month after I bought an Intrepid 4x5 camera, and reviewed it after nine months. It is very condensed compared to other writings. It contains a lot of notes for those who are eyeing to take the plunge into large format photography, as they say.
While there's nothing new about family photos and parent-child portraiture, an out-of-the-box idea can breathe new life to them as an interesting photography project. Case in point is the work of Tokyo-based Bruce Osborn titled OYAKO: An Ode to Parents and Children, which gives us a peek into the relationship and dynamics between parents and children in Japan.
Saint Petersburg-based Ezo Renier described photography as his daydream about the world around him. It’s no surprise, then, that his body of work tackles surreal or fantastical imagery – from contorted women in glass boxes in the woods to humans depicted as creatures.
I’m Dan Joseph a commercial photographer based in London. I grew up in London and developed an early interest in photography thanks to a combination of my father's photography background, and access to a homemade darkroom.
One of the first things we learn about portrait photography is the primary goal of capturing the personality or essence of the subject. Or at least a part of it. Other times, the focus is on the expression and the emotion it conveys.
Horror cinema may have had golden moments scattered here and there since the inception of film, but you can’t deny that the ‘70s and ‘80s are two of its most defining decades. It gave us classics like A Nightmare on Elm Street, The Shining, Poltergeist, Halloween, Friday the 13th, and many others that still send some of us leaving the night light on.
We’ve featured a ton of tutorials on taking natural light portraits by many talented photographers here on the website and today, we’re adding one more. If you’ve always wanted to try or perfect shooting moody natural light portraits, this tutorial by Australian photographer Ben Chambers of Bach Photography is for you.
I'm an artist from Melbourne specialising in photographing dogs. Recently I got a bit bored with my work and decided it was time to go rogue. I had this image of Duke the Great Dane that I kept looking at and the expression on his face and thinking that this had to be more than just an average photo of a goofy looking dog.
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Spotted a picture-perfect location for some portrait photography projects and practice? Working with natural light isn't your only option to get some impressive shots. In this quick video, find out what you can achieve with both natural light and off camera flash, and decide which look you want.
In our previous features, we've seen New York-based photographer and filmmaker Franck Bohbot capture the beauty of New Orleans at night, and dreamy winter scenes in the Big Apple. Today, we showcase yet another of his interesting photography projects: a portrait project that aims not only to introduce us to New York City's indie booksellers, but also show us the character of the bookstores themselves.
Whether you've just started learning how to shoot portraits or a little ahead into it, working with natural light is one of the most useful tricks to have as a portrait photographer. It may not always be as simple as pointing your camera on your subject beside a window, but this quick tutorial by Mark Wallace for Adorama is easy enough to get you started.
While double (and even multiple) exposure photography is a technique often left to the experimental world of analog photography, it's still possible to play around with it using digital cameras. Finland-based fine art photographer Christoffer Relander gives us a glimpse of the creative possibilities offered by this technique through his stunning series of double-exposed portraits taken using a Nikon D700.
No matter what type of photography you like, at one point or another, you’ll find yourself shooting a portrait. I know landscape photographers who swore they would never shoot a portrait in their career, and one week later they were shooting a portrait.
If you own a camera, then you are likely asked to do portraits from time to time, regardless of if you do them professionally. You may have a successful portrait photography business, or maybe you just have a passion for them as a hobby; whatever your purpose for shooting portraits is, the fact is that you are going to need a solid bag to carry your kit around in.
If you need some ideas for your next portrait photography project, our featured set today may be an unexpected source of inspiration for you. Fahad Khokhar teamed up with James McAteer to conceptualize and shoot a fun set using a Fuji Natura Black, on top of other cameras.
Shooting family portraits, either for yourself or for paid clients, is a common task for photographers to be enlisted into doing. But if you are new to family portraits, or to photography in general, maybe you are finding yourself wondering about what sort of kit you should have if you want to be doing more family portraits.
I’m a freelance photographer, and for over ten years I have been traveling around the world with my camera. To celebrate MOTHER'S DAY, here is a collection of pictures that shine the spotlight on mothers and their love, all around the globe.
The most stunning creative projects, whether commercial or personal, are often made out of partnerships or collaborations between artists and bright minds. Case in point is today's featured collection of clever portraits by London-based advertising photographer Joseph Ford.
Whether you're not yet well-versed in studio lighting setup or simply prefer shooting in natural light, here's an easy tutorial that will help you get stunning results. Just look for a location with open shade lighting and you're halfway there! Mark Wallace demonstrates how you can work with this simple but clean lighting for your next natural light portrait sessions.
Need some inspiration for portrait photography or visual storytelling? If we were to sum up what makes the duo behind Kremson Johnson Photography worth following, it's their knack for creating characters with unique stories to tell.
With fantasy and futuristic elements among this year's predicted creative trends, we have a lot of possibilities to look forward to in the photography world. New York-based Alexander Berdin-Lazursky is one of the photographers to watch out for if you're interested in these trends, or simply want to see extraordinary concepts in fashion photography.
My name is Jack Ronnel and I specialize in black and white fine art and documentary-style portrait photography. I work with film as well as digital. I love reportage photography and portraits. With documentary style portraits, without my intervention in any way, as opposed to directed photography, I am able to get the real human interaction, emotion and spontaneity, creating an involvement that the viewer can experience.
If you're a photographer, I'm sure you remember the day you first got your new camera. And if you're anything like me, in the beginning the camera seemed to control you more than you knew how to control it.
So, as we recently did with most of the camera systems that we cover regularly, we are going to continue putting together these series of ultimate guides based on the various tutorials and lists, and guides that we produced on various topics throughout the last year.
Creative projects that blur the boundaries between digital art and photography may be pretty common albeit somewhat controversial these days. But once in a while, we come across bodies of work that are simply surprising and amazing, it doesn't matter how they were made.
We hear the phrase "art imitates life" every now and then, but I think that sometimes we see "imitations" that make us wish life can be just as artful in the real world. I was recently reminded of this as I browsed through the beautiful set by Bratislava-based photographer and art director Evelyn Bencicova.
50mm lenses are among the most popular out there, in large part because of their relative ease of use in virtually any situation or niche of photography, but also thanks to their affordability compared to other lenses that photographers may be considering.
My name is Joseph and I’m a photographer here in Los Angeles, but I work consistently between Los Angeles and New York. I’m a fan of The Phoblographer and I’ve been a subscriber for years. I typically read The Phoblographer on my iPad/iPhone everyday but recently read on the website on my MacBook and saw that this publication offers the possibility to be featured on the website, and I got inspired to reach out to see if this could be a possibility for me!
I'm Bruno Fujii from Brazil trying to develop a cohesive body of work that relates directly to my personality and beliefs. I started learning photography 3 years ago while in a full time job.
Right up there with buying a 50mm lens and the rule of thirds, probably one of the most thrown around recommendations in photography is photographing your subjects during golden hour. It is one of the most common times of day to see photographers out looking for images but it also comes with some interesting challenges that newer photographers may struggle with.
We had special guest Chris Gampat, The Phoblographer, on our live show this week reviewing your portraits! It was a lot of fun, he was a great addition to the team. First we find out that he’s an expert in all things film photography, eateries in New York, and camera bags. Also that Chris’ parents […]
Canon is still the top dog in the photography industry, and that means that a lot of you may be thinking about building out a solid portrait kit with your Canon camera. The good news is that since the system is so popular doing this on a budget is very doable without breaking the bank.
Two years ago I set out to capture photos of my neighbor's kids growing up in my small community. After completing the initial set and posting it to Bored Panda in April of 2017 it immediately went viral and impacted the lives of many folks around the world.
As I'm going through submissions for the upcoming Analog photography zine by the Phoblographer, I'm pooling through well over 400 emails. Some of them are positively fantastic, and some others aren't quite zine quality but they're still very good.
To create visually interesting photographs, several subjects can be combined to form interactions between different elements within a frame. Maria Svarbova chose to do the opposite by removing a crucial, usual element out of a common location, which is a pool without water.
Everyone loves dogs--the heartwarming creatures have been proven to lower stress in humans. In our years of interviewing various dog photographers, it's usually tough to find the absolute star amongst the loads and loads of them out there; and Nicholas Lindsey really stands out from the rest.
Sometimes it is just incredibly interesting to watch other photographers work, to see them process a scene, the light, and the subject in order to create an image unique to their own personal artistic vision.
The portraits of the dwellers of Khachik village located on Armenian-Azerbaijani border...
Dog owners often look strangely similar to the dogs they love. Animal photographer Gerrard Gethings turned this concept into an amusing photo series titled Do You Look Like Your Dog?. Gethings works out of London, England, with his assistant named Baxter, a 9-year-old Border Terrier.
Perhaps you remember 5-year-old rising star Jare, 'the most beautiful girl in the world'? Well, the photographer behind her hauntingly beautiful portraits has blown up on the internet since then, with her various other pieces being hailed for their unique aesthetic.
Part two of three; showcasing outstanding work from the 500px community in 2017.
What happens when you leave the city? Freedom!
My name is Elliott Verdier, and I’m a French photographer who recently returned home from Kyrgyzstan. I spent four months making a portrait of the country with a 4×5 analog large format camera.
I started Girls and Their Cats on Instagram two years ago as a way to showcase cat ladies in a positive light. These are some of the most heartwarming stories from the series. You can also see my previous post here.
A photo gallery full of flowers guaranteed to plant visual inspiration.
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Photographer Andy Seliverstoff over St. Petersburg, Russia, has been working on a heartwarming photo project that will put a smile on your face, particularly if you’re a dog lover. It’s titled, “Little Kids and Their Big Dogs.
It’s the holiday season and everyone’s favorite photography background prop is Christmas lights. It used to be pretty easy to get these photos to come out perfect, but with the rise in popularity of LED lights, there’s some weird stuff that happens if you don’t have the right camera settings. The gif above shows 10 […]