portrait photography
How to use V-flats to create three different beauty lighting setups
When shooting in a studio, you can use V-flats in a variety of ways. In this video, Lindsay Adler shows you three simple setups you…
Four things I hate about portrait photography in 2019
OnPortraits.com was built to fulfill a positive mission: I want to give you actionable tips and tactics so you can create the portrait photographs you want….
Here’s a detailed guide to prepare you for your actor headshots
Your actor headshots, combined with your actor showreel, are the foundations of your actor profile. They are without shadow of a doubt a key marketing…
Can you guess which of these faces is real and which is computer-generated?
NVIDIA’s researchers came up with an impressive algorithm that’s able to generate realistic faces. Some of them are so realistic that you may have a…
Seven habits of boring street photography
Street Photography is hard to do well. Really hard. Even if you are great, most of your shots will not be. The internet is filled…
How I did this pink & red studio shoot: a step-by-step breakdown from planning to post-processing
Shooting for yourself is something I talk about a lot, I talk about it a lot but I have struggled to do over the last…
Winning photo of $120K HIPA prize was allegedly staged
Prestigious competition the Hamdan International Photography Award (HIPA) recently announced its 2019 winners. Among them was Malaysian photographer Edwin Ong Wee Kee, whose photo of…
This is how different softbox placement affects your portraits
When photographing portraits in a studio, you can create many different looks using only one light. Depending on how you place it and how big…
I invented an octabox gadget for shooting street portraits on the go
My name is Brendan Burkett, and I believe I have created an original device and street photography method. What I have done is attach a softbox…
This is the actual reason why you may not like your own portrait
As a general type, portrait photos are often disliked by the subject themselves. From the early formative years of grade school on into the advanced…






































