portrait photography

    These portraits are entirely AI-generated, these people are not real
    Dec 18, 2018 Dunja Đuđić Kalinin

    We’ve seen NVIDIA’s impressive content aware tool and noise removing tool. They have recently developed a generative adversarial network (GAN) which easily customizes styles of…

    Here’s why you shouldn’t use electronic shutter for portraits
    Dec 6, 2018 Dunja Đuđić Kalinin

    Did you know that using an electronic instead of a mechanical shutter can affect a background in your images? After a subscriber pointed it out…

    Google used this crazy 5-phone case to tweak Portrait Mode on the Pixel 3
    Dec 3, 2018 John Aldred

    When the Google Pixel 2 came out it was extremely impressive. Despite only having the single rear camera, it beat out everything else on DxOMark…

    Samsung used my DSLR photo to fake their phone’s “portrait mode”
    Dec 3, 2018 Dunja Đuđić Kalinin

    Earlier this year, Samsung was busted for using stock photos to show off capabilities of Galaxy A8’s camera. And now they did it again –…

    10 tips for getting kids to smile naturally in photos – secrets from a children’s photographer
    Nov 21, 2018 Randy Klein

    Everyone has been taught from birth how to get a kid to smile.  You just tell them to say “cheese” and they respond with a…

    Here are five simple ways to use V-flats in the studio
    Nov 15, 2018 Dunja Đuđić Kalinin

    A V-flat can be a useful and versatile tool for studio photography. In this video, Spyros Heniadis gives you five easy ways to use a…

    Quick tips for choosing the perfect background for outdoor portraits
    Oct 29, 2018 Dunja Đuđić Kalinin

    When shooting portraits, the background is one of the things you need to be mindful about. And if you shoot outdoors, you don’t have so…

    6 reasons why you should shoot portraits in landscape orientation
    Oct 24, 2018 John Aldred

    I always thought it was interesting that we call vertical shots “portrait” orientation and that horizontal shots are “landscape” – especially as I rarely seem…

    Fill flash explained – take stunning outdoor portrait photography with a flash
    Oct 22, 2018 Ed Gregory

    Taking portraits in bright sunlight has been a bit of a no-no for a long time but the truth is that you can actually get…

    Five innovative ways to isolate the subject in your photos
    Oct 22, 2018 Aaron Cederberg

    I have no idea where I first heard this, but it’s extremely true: “the main difference between painting and photography is that the painters need…