portrait photography
How and why you might want to use High Speed Sync flash in the studio
Oct 17, 2019
John Aldred
High speed sync flash is typically associated with shooting outdoors. You’re in the bright light, and you need to take your shutter past your camera’s…
Seven tips to improve your documentary-style portrait photography
Oct 15, 2019
John Aldred
Documentary portraits are becoming more popular than ever. While once more the domain of magazine features, they’ve become a lot more widespread over the last…
This is what it looks like to shoot portraits at absurd 900mm
Sep 26, 2019
Dunja Đuđić Kalinin
One would say that shooting portraits with a 400mm or 500mm lens is overkill. Absurd, even. But what shooting portraits at 900mm? Manny Ortiz teamed…
This photographer builds highly realistic miniatures for stunning movie-inspired portraits
Sep 26, 2019
Dunja Đuđić Kalinin
It’s not rare that photographers are inspired by other types of art: it can be cinematography, music, painting – you name it. Photographer Nicholas Busch…
This website offers 100,000 AI-generated portraits for free
Sep 20, 2019
Dunja Đuđić Kalinin
We’ve already seen that AI-generated faces can look so realistic that it’s sometimes difficult to distinguish them from real ones. And if you want to…
New Luminar 4 will use AI skin enhancer to automatically make your portraits flawless
Sep 17, 2019
Dunja Đuđić Kalinin
Luminar 4 is only days from being released, and Skylum is gradually revealing the AI-powered features it’s going to offer. After automatic sky replacement and…
Portraits of Honor: photographing the last of the WWII veterans
Sep 14, 2019
Jeffrey Rease
This is a year for monumental anniversaries of events in American history—particularly the WWII 75th anniversaries of the D-Day invasion, Operation Market Garden, and the…
Why shooting portraits at ISO 100 may not always be the best choice
Sep 5, 2019
Dunja Đuđić Kalinin
Increasing the ISO value increases the amount of noise in your images. So, you may want to shoot at the lowest ISO possible. But is…
This is how to create a crazy bokeh fashion shoot with tin foil
Aug 30, 2019
Dunja Đuđić Kalinin
Sometimes the simplest solutions give the best result. After all, finding simple and cheap solutions is one of the main reasons why we turn to…
Ten street photography tricks to make you sneaky, but not creepy
Aug 30, 2019
Dunja Đuđić Kalinin
If you want to capture genuine, candid moments in street photography, you need to be discreet. Oftentimes, getting noticed by your subject will completely ruin…