How to shoot portraits under pressure

In the ideal world, you have an infinite amount of time during photoshoots to tweak the lighting and camera settings until everything is absolutely perfect.

Unfortunately, that’s not the reality of it. Oftentimes we’re left with too little time in too small of a space and all we can do is try to get the best picture possible.

Here to share how she makes the most out of inconvenient situations is portrait photographer Victoria Will for a BTS video from CreativeLive.

In the video, Will shares how she approaches each shoot and how she makes the most of the environment she’s in, be it the corner of an office or a storage closet.

As she notes in the video, one of her keys is to keep that personal connection going between the photographer and the subject. No matter who it is, be it someone on the street or an A-list celebrity, Will says she approaches all shoots the same with the photojournalistic eye she initially started her career with.