portrait photography
Layers of being human: how I shot this photo inspired by the Day of the Dead
I consider traveling for my work both as a curse and a blessing; damned be the hours spent away from my family and cozy little…
This dramatic photo series shows why it’s important to wear a seatbelt [graphic content]
I don’t know about your country, but people in mine often wear a seatbelt only in order not to pay a ticket. However, being financially…
What it’s like to shoot portraits with Canon 50mm f/0.95 dream lens from 1960’s
Remember the beautiful weird lens paradise that Mathieu Stern recently visited? During this visit to Camera Rescue in Tampere, Finland, he got to test out…
How and why you might want to use High Speed Sync flash in the studio
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
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…
Three one-light setups using V-Flats with three very different looks
V-Flats are one of those most underrated studio accessories, but one of the most useful and versatile. At their core, they can do two things….
Four easy and effective Lightroom portrait processing techniques in 4 minutes
Before we bring out photographs into Photoshop they have to go through some kind of raw processor. For many of photographers, that raw processor is…
This is what it looks like to shoot portraits at absurd 900mm
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
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
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…









































