I had no desire to be a portrait photographer when I started learning photography in college. The amount of work it takes to connect with people, pose them, and take a powerful image felt daunting. A few years later, I finally realized that being an empathic human was an optimal job skill for portraits.
I had no desire to be a portrait photographer when I started learning photography in college. The amount of work it takes to connect with people, pose them, and take a powerful image felt daunting. A few years later, I finally realized that being an empathic human was an optimal job skill for portraits.
Whether you're a professional portrait photographer or someone still learning the ropes, you'll definitely be working with non-models. So if you still need some help on how to pose them for your next projects, we have a really useful video tutorial that should give you lots of ideas.
Every spring and summer my clients know where to find me and my camera. Finding the perfect location for a portrait shoot is always one of the greatest challenges in photography. And once you think you have found the perfect location for your photoshoot, coming up with the creative idea for how to capture both the subject beautifully and the location cohesively can be equally as difficult to execute.
For many years, a 35mm lens wasn't considered a viable option for shooting portraits--and depending on who you ask it still isn't a good option. It doesn't mean that it can't be done, it just means that it's much more difficult to do effectively vs other options that are longer on the market.
If I had to define the hero shot style of portrait, then I'd say that it's a portrait photo that likens a person to the iconic poses of many comic book and fantasy super heroes that we've come to know and admire over the years.
Want to get into portrait photography and make sure you get beautiful results with every shoot? Before you fuss around with your camera settings, locations, and lighting setup among the most important things you have to learn are posing and directing your models.
It's that time of the week again, when we focus our deals coverage on the educational side of things. Gear is important, but keeping your creative mind sharp and learning new techniques is an important thing for all photographers to do.
As we have done the last few weeks, its time for another installment of Improve Photo, this week focusing on a great deal for posing men. For many photographers posing women comes as a second nature, but throw a man into the mix and suddenly posing ideas are hard to come bye. This will help you fix that issue.
Great portrait photography is so much more than just about knowing how to work a camera. You can memorize your camera’s entire manual and still not be confident in a portrait shoot because most portraits require posing.
Australian fashion, portrait, and lifestyle photographer Julia Trotti made this helpful 11. 5-minute video that provides tips and tricks for photographing men who don’t have any experience with posing and modeling.
Photographer Anita Sadowska made this helpful 14-minute video in which she shares tips and tricks for photographing women who don’t have any experience modeling and posing for the camera. With the help of photographer Irene Rudnyk, Sadowska demonstrates a number of simple poses and ways to think about making your subject look their best in […]
Commercial photographer Derek Heisler has some key advice for the novice portrait photographers in the audience: don’t pose your models. This might seem counterintuitive at first, but Heisler explains why ‘directing’ your models instead of posing them, will make a huge difference in your photography.