Portrait Photography

Today portrait photographer Christina N Dickson shares tips on how to shoot engagement portraits. Christina’s work can be found at www.ChristinaNicholePhotography.com.
Shooting engagement portraits are perhaps some of the most enjoyable for photographers. Most often, they are taken before the whirlwind of wedding planning is fully underway, and the couple is still quite enamored with one [...]

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Engagement Portrait Shoots: 7 Professional Tips to take your Engagement Shoots to the Next Level

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What first intrigued me about Nordica Photography’s web page was their advertisement for a social media package.  It’s the first time I had seen a package offered by local photographers so I started asking some questions of how this fairly new market was working out for Cole and Jakob.  They also have what most [...]

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Social Media Photography And Finding Your Style: An Interview With Nordica Photography

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Fill Flash with the Sun Behind the Subject Creates Nice Backlighting but a Well Lit Face (the hat helped shade the face too) – Image by Cayusa
It’s a bright sunny day and you’re out with friends making the most of the good weather. You decide to take your camera – after all what better day [...]

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3 Tips for Shooting Portraits in Bright Sunshine

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Note: File this one under ‘bizarre’, ’silly’ or ‘things to do on a boring rainy day’…
Looking to take a portraits with a quirky twist? Try ‘jowling‘ (also sometimes known as slap n’ flap).

Photo by rent-a-moose

How do you do it? Get your subject to relax their facial muscles completely (to the point that they have no [...]

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Jowling – Photography Fun For a Rainy Day

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One of the things I love about dPS is that we have a variety of photographers of different levels of experience and exploring different types of photography – all learning together. Today Aaron Meyers shares what he learned in his first attempt at portrait photography.
Let me start out by saying I’m an amateur photography. I [...]

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8 Lessons Learned from My First Attempt at Portrait Photography

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Today I’d like to introduce you to the photography of Rosie Hardy. A 19 year old photographer I stumbled across at Flickr (on the recommendation of some of our readers on facebook). You can see her Flickr stream here. Rosie agreed to answer a few questions about her photography – I hope you enjoy this [...]

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Interview with Rosie Hardy

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Few kinds of photography have a more dynamic power than the area of Portraiture.
Portraiture is the medium through which we photographers endeavor to tell the stories of our friends, our family, and our clients. Through this art, we have the ability to capture a likeness of someone that will last for generations to come.
So, is [...]

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Shooting for HDR Portraiture

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In our 10 Ways to Take Stunning Portraits tutorial I talked about ‘Playing with Eye contact’ (point #2) as being one technique to add change the feel of an image.
Today I was flipping through an old photography magazine (called ‘photography focus guide’) and a quote about eye contact in portraits jumped off the [...]

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Eye Contact in Photography

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In this tutorial Tuhin Subhra Dey shares some tips on taking portraits.

1. A photographer friend of mine once told me that “there should always be some “wow” elements in your photos, if you think that your photo lacks that characteristics, don’t show the photo to the others”!! Although I personally believe that it is not [...]

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10 Tips for Portrait Photography

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I met Pro Photographer George Tippet (no website… yet) at a function recently where he was the official photographer. I sidled up to him in a quiet moment, introduced myself and after chatting with him for a few minutes asked if he’d mind giving me a few ‘quick tips’ for portrait photography (his [...]

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4 Quick Tips for Portraits

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