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While natural light often provides some of the best light for your portrait images, it is not always possible to use natural light. When you want complete control of light, you need to use artificial light, and it's possible through the use of a fairly simple strobe setup to realistically recreate the look of natural...
Capturing the right look for skin tones is tough. Anyone who has captured portrait images knows how tricky it can be to nail exposure and color balance. However, when photographing subjects with darker skin tones, it's often even more challenging. Photographer and Adobe Creative Resident Aundre Larrow has 10 tips to...
French photographer Mathieu Stern is often making videos about strange and unusual lenses he adapts to his Sony mirrorless cameras, but his latest video is a neat trick to add some visual flair to your portrait photography.
The flair comes in the form of colored smoke. There are some cheap smoke cakes you can get on...
You may know photographer and prolific YouTuber Jessica Kobeissi from her videos in which she and other photographers all photograph the same model. They're interesting to see how each photographer has a different take on the same subject. A lot of what differentiates the photographers is their processing and retouching...
Photographer and educator Marc Silber has produced three videos recently all centered around lighting. He regularly sits down with talented photographers to get tips straight from the pros, which is what he has done with the trio of videos below. Let's take a look and see what we can learn!
The first video is with...
When you look at a portrait, one of the first things that often jumps out at you is the subject's eyes. It's often said that eyes are the windows to the soul, so it only makes sense that a good portrait will depend upon the eyes. Human eyes are very reflective, which can be used to your advantage. However, it can also...
It's important to know what sort of things you should do when photographing people, but it's perhaps just as important to know things you shouldn't do when capturing portraits. In the video below, Manny Ortiz gives us five things you should avoid when shooting portraiture.
The first thing you should not do is go to...
Back with another episode in his regular "Two Minute Tips" video series, photographer David Bergman has a great tip for placing your subject within the frame. Bergman, a Canon Explorer of Light, is a very experienced photographer so he certainly knows a thing or two about great composition.
Bergman says that it can be...
Portrait photographer Irene Rudnyk regularly posts tutorials and behind the scenes videos on her YouTube channel. Her latest video is an interesting look at using table lamps to light your portrait subjects. It's not unusual for photographers to seek alternatives to expensive full studio lighting setups and it's often...
In a new video tutorial for Adorama, Gavin Hoey shows us how to quickly replace a background for a portrait.
If you work in a small studio space, you are often limited by what backgrounds you can use. Fortunately, if you shoot with compositing in mind, it can be easy to replace your backdrop in Photoshop. If you'd like...
Today we have a pair of portrait retouching videos to share with you. If you are new to portrait photography or simply want to find ways to improve your efficiency and effectiveness with retouching, this is the place to be.
The first video comes from Adorama TV and photographer Mark Wallace. It's actually a supplement...
Photographer Sean Tucker breaks down his entire portrait processing workflow in Photoshop, including retouching skin, dodge and burn, color toning, sharpening, contrast and more.
The tutorial video below does assume a somewhat advanced level of knowledge with Photoshop as Tucker does move rather quickly through some...
PiXimperfect's Unmesh Dinda has a new tutorial showing us how to sharpen portraits in Photoshop. To ensure that we are all on the same page, Dinda spends the first six or so minutes of the video discussing what sharpness is and how you can quantify the sharpness of a digital image.
Following this, we can look at his...
Sony Artisan Miguel Quiles teamed up with Adorama TV to show how to build a three-light studio lighting setup for portraiture. While you don't need three lights to capture great portraits in a studio, three lights do offer a lot of flexibility and control.
Every time you add a light, it can become more complicated....
Sometimes when you go to brighten up a portrait, you can accidentally ruin your skin tones. With the tips in a new video from Aaron Nace of Phlearn, that problem is a thing of the past.
Since you want to brighten your portrait subject without ruining the skin tones, you'll need to perform two steps, the brightening and...
Photographer Elaine Torres wants to show us five ways to utilize color gels inside of a studio setting. She uses lights with color gels to accomplish five primary tasks during shooting, including using them as a main light, as a mixed main light, to color her background, as props and as a kicker light.
If you want to...
In today's edition of Shutter Release, we will look at three pieces of interesting photography content. The first is a video about using a strip softbox for outdoor portraiture. Up next is a story about the first official recording of a drone striking a commercial aircraft. Third is an article from a female photographer...
In a new cinematic video, photographer Manny Ortiz unveils the two lenses he believes every portrait photographer should own.
One of the lenses will likely not come as a surprise, the nifty 50mm prime lens. Technically, Ortiz uses a Zeiss 55mm f/1.8, but it's very much like a 50mm equivalent fast prime lens. A 50mm...
Full frame versus crop cameras…a battle which has been going on for a long time with no indication that it'll be ending anytime soon. If you're reading Imaging Resource, there's a good chance you've debated between a crop sensor and a full-frame camera yourself at some point and perhaps you've owned both. Diving deep...
In today's edition of Shutter Release, we have a rich assortment of content to share with you. We start by pointing you toward the winners of this year's EyeEm Photography Awards, which attracted entries from nearly 90,000 photographers. After that, dog fans will be pleased with a video about a neat photo project...