portrait photography

All you need to know about hiring a hairstylist for your photo shoot

Jan 5, 2024 Ian Richards

Sometimes, the littlest things make the biggest difference in a shoot. Like the angle of a light casting the perfect shadow or a single wisp of hair blown across a model’s face. Make no mistake — that wisp was placed with the utmost attention to detail. A hairstylist chose that precise placement over countless others.



A Beauty Portrait with Gravity-Defying Hair

Dec 26, 2023 Joe Edelman

The goal of a beauty portrait is to highlight the subject’s physical beauty. The challenge in adding the word ‘creative’ to the mix is that you…



Infrared photo of a pregnant belly shows all the magic of the human body

Dec 18, 2023 Dunja Đuđić

Pregnancy is an incredible process that changes the human body in many ways. Mathieu Stern, a photographer, and a soon-to-be dad, captured a bit of this magic and change in a single photo. He used the technique many portrait photographers avoid to show how a woman’s body changes to make life possible for a baby.



Don’t let the Grinch steal your holiday shoot this year

Dec 12, 2023 Alex Baker

A photographer has warned you not to use anything Grinch-related in your holiday shoots this year. If you do, he might just come after you…



“It’s about you, not the camera”

Dec 11, 2023 Alex Baker

Nigerian photographer Badè Fuwa is a relative newcomer to the world of photography and only picked up a camera around two years ago. Nonetheless, his…



I matched the Sun and the Moon with a 400mm lens

Dec 6, 2023 Eric Paré

Created in Bolivia in 2023, these two images were made with the ambitious intention of having a diptych representing opposite moments, giant Sunset & giant…



5 ways to find inspiration when the weather is sad and grey

Nov 30, 2023 Alex Baker

I was browsing the subreddit for photography recently, and one particular question from a new photographer caught my eye. It was worded in an amusing…



Photographer captures stunning underwater portraits at 100ft, breaks Guinness world record again

Nov 29, 2023 Dunja Đuđić

After breaking the Guinness World Record for the deepest underwater portrait shoot, photographer Steve Haining has done it again. Not only has he outdone himself, but he’s done it five times better. From the initial 21 feet, Steve set the new record by doing a portrait shoot at 100ft (30m). And it all started as a joke.



“It’s truly an incredible feeling when you can show someone how beautiful they are”

Nov 21, 2023 Alex Baker

Award-winning photographer Bella Kotak is best known for her ethereal fine art portraits and also for her love of flowers and pomeranian dogs. Her images…



Create this triadic colour portrait with this Rotolight LED lighting set-up

Nov 17, 2023 Jake Hicks

With Rotolight announcing their latest powerhouse LED light, the Anova Pro 3 (check it out here), they asked me to share some of my lighting…