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Is there a better way to enjoy lovely summer weather than to get outside and capture some outdoor portraits? Over at SLR Lounge, photographer Pye Jirsa recently showed off five simple portrait ideas that you can try out in a local park or any nice outdoor area.
The first tip to try is to backlight your subject. If you...
Imagine you plan a photography trip to a spectacular location. You've scouted the area ahead of time, and you know the perfect shot you want to get. However, once you're there, the skies are bland. A bad sky can ruin an otherwise great landscape photo. What about outdoor portraits? You're even more at the mercy of luck...
Fancy yourself a portrait photographer? Have you mastered posing and sculpting the light to showcase emotion and tell someone's story with a single frame? If so, we invite you to enter your best portrait and people photographs in our just-opened 2022 People & Portraits Photo Contest.
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Capturing nice couple's portraits can be challenging for several reasons, not the least of which is that it can be tricky to pose portrait subjects. In the latest 'Master your Craft' video for Adorama, photographer Pye Jirsa of SLR Lounge offers a simple framework you can use to create excellent poses during a photo...
Good light is the foundation of great portraits. SLR Lounge has teamed up with Adorama to create a new video series, 'Master Your Craft.' In the latest episode, photographer Pye Jirsa takes on a portrait photography challenge in a garage with no artificial light.
Jirsa says that the first step in any new portrait...
In the latest major release of Adobe Lightroom, Adobe added new AI masking features. You can click Select Sky or Select Subject to have the software quickly and often accurately create pixel-perfect masks of different parts of your image, such as a person or people, the sky and more. Once the mask has been created, you...
Achieving accurate skin tones in photographs can be tricky. Pantone has announced SkinTone Validated, the world's first validation program for skin tones for technology. The new technology program allows display, TV, mobile device and printer manufacturers to have their devices tested to ensure that they authentically...
Photographer Thomas Heaton loves epic landscape photography. He's done his fair share of it. However, his latest video showcases a more intimate, low-key landscape photography shoot along a local coast. It's peaceful and very productive. He thinks intimate landscape...
Spring has sprung, and that means it's a great time to dust off the camera after a long, cold winter and take some photos. B&H published a new video this week featuring 10 creative spring photography ideas. Check it out below and get your creative juices flowing.
Do you shoot with a Sony FE or E mount camera and need a capable all-around zoom lens for portraits, sports and close wildlife that won't weigh you down? If so, you'll want to watch our 10 Minute Review of the Tamron 70-180mm f/2.8 Di III to see just what this lens is capable of achieving.
We started this new review...
Do you like quality images at value pricing? I certainly do, and the Sigma Contemporary line has generally excelled in this area. So when we heard we'd be getting a 56mm f/1.4 DC Contemporary sample I grabbed it before anyone else had the chance!
Our sample was fitted for Sony E-mount (they also make an MFT mount...
ON1, makers of ON1 Photo RAW 2019, have many great educational videos on their YouTube channel and the most recent pair of videos are perfect for beginning portrait photographers.
The first video below is aimed at someone who is totally new to ON1 Photo RAW 2019 and it goes through the portrait editing process from the...
It's often thought that when using a softbox to light portraits, the softbox should be placed in front of your subject. However, as Gavin Hoey shows in the newest episode of his Adorama video series, Take and Make Great Photography with Gavin Hoey, there is actually more flexibility with a softbox, particularly a large...
Over at SLR Lounge, the team are getting back to the basics with a new free tutorial series. The tutorials are being kicked off with an episode about photographing nighttime portraits using only a phone flashlight.
Of course, you can get great results with expensive dedicated lighting equipment, but it turns out you...
Portrait photographer and educator Irene Rudnyk recently headed from Canada to Dubai to host a workshop along with photographer Andras Schram. In the video below, we go behind the scenes with Rudnyk on a lovely natural light photoshoot in a desert in Dubai.
Rudnyk went with her typical combination, which is a Canon 5D...
When shooting portrait outdoors, it’s critical to find a nice background. What makes a background an ideal choice? Photographer David Bergman offers some tips for finding the best background in the latest episode of Two Minute Tips.
Bergman states that the best backgrounds are ones which are not distracting and force...
At this year’s Photo Plus Expo, Sony Artisan and portrait photographer Miguel Quiles took to the Sony Stage to deliver a presentation on how to improve your portrait photography. In the video below, Quiles discusses his portrait techniques and guides us through some steps we can take to improve our own portraits. Quiles...
When it comes to photographing our four-legged friends, there are a lot of challenges. Unlike shooting a portrait of a person, a dog may be much less cooperative, for example. However, like a person, you often want to photograph a dog in a way that accentuates their character. Photographer Anne Geier is an expert at...
Many of us have heard of the term "portrait prime" to describe a fast lens. Photographers often reach for f/1.4, f/1.8 and f/2 lenses when shooting portraits to capture images with shallow depth of field and dreamy backgrounds. Sony Artisan Miguel Quiles often opts for a stopped down aperture instead, which is an unusual...
If you take many portraits, then flyaway and stray hairs are going to be something you will need to deal with on a regular basis. No matter how much time and effort goes into preparing someone's hair for a shoot, it'll often still be the case that hairs get loose and cover up part of the face or fly off into the...