Portrait Photography

We’ve all heard it from clients before. “I don’t like formally posed pictures of myself. I always look so stiff. Can we get pictures without being formally set up?” Fortunately for our clients – and for us – the world of formal portrait and people photography is now coming to a new era: Portrait Photojournalism. [...]

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Poser: Achieve Perfect Portrait Expression

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Lets kick our Summer Series off with a look back on the best Portrait Photography Tutorials on dPS – written in the last year (based upon what tutorials were viewed the most this year). 10 Techniques for Amazing Portraits How to Go Beyond the Regular Composition Advice and Get the Best Shots of Your Kids [...]

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Our Best Portrait Photography Tutorials of 2011

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The following post on depth of field was written by Hawaii photographer Natalie Norton, of natalienortonphoto.com. We talk a lot around here at Digital Photography School about Depth of Field. I’m writing this based on the assumption that we all understand that in layman terms, “depth of field” is the portion of an image that [...]

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A Fresh Look at Depth of Field: Using foreground to achieve creative depth of field

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With the holidays upon many of us I suspect cameras are being pulled out of the cupboards for a lot of use around family events. One subject that I guess is many of our viewfinders more than any at this time of year are kids. Kids enter into the spirit of the holidays with much [...]

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10 Great Tips for Photographing Your Kids

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We get a lot of questions here at dPS headquarters about lighting subjects. Just today someone emailed asking the difference between Rembrant Lighting and Split Lighting. In the following video Jay P. Margan demonstrates 5 different types of lighting: Rembrant Light Split Light Broad Light Butterfly Light Loop Light While Jay’s using some great studio [...]

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5 Classic Lighting Positions for Portrait Photography

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I first fell in love with Brooke Snow when she started posting the Inspired by Life video series on her blog and I noticed that she was something I was not: calm. Brooke was chilled out and not frantically running around shooting thousands of images. Now, at this point I’d gotten over the spray-and-pray stage where many newbies begin. [...]

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The Decisive Moment {from an impetuous photographer}

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This post is based on the portrait shoot of a young family who are DPS readers. After hearing of my work in Battle Ground, they contacted me for a portrait session. I am very happy to feature them in this post. Shooting family portraits is always a varied experience based on the number of people [...]

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5 Tips for Young Family Portraits

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This guest post on natural light portrait photography was submitted by Ed Verosky at About-Photography.com and author of the popular eBooks, “Taking Your Portraiture to the Next Level,” and “Taking Your Portraiture to the Next Level II.” Using natural light can produce some of the most pleasing portraits, but it’s not just the light we [...]

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Easy Natural Light Portraiture Technique: Using Available Shade

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By Annie Tao It’s simple. Take photos of your baby — or if you’re a professional photographer, of your client’s baby — in whatever state they’re in. Serious, curious, grumpy, sleepy, silly or sad. For true lifestyle photography, shooting how people are naturally is what makes the photography truly editorial and photojournalistic. These are the [...]

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Don’t Wait for a Smile

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As part of our Kids Photography eBook launch – we asked author Rachel Devine to put together a series of blog posts here on dPS on the topic of ‘what I learned from shooting with film’. Those posts went up over the last week here on dPS and have been really popular with readers of [...]

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5 Lessons I Learned about Portraiture From Shooting With Film

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