Spread ’em – A top tip for photographing tall & short couples

Photographing couples can be great fun. It can also be a great big pain, especially when you are faced with a couple that have a pretty drastic height difference between them. The common tactic is to simply hunch the taller person over to match the height of the other. It’s not a very flatting look, […]

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Watch buckets of water being thrown over Team Oracle USA in a surprise photo shoot

While in Bermuda with a group of photographers recently, photographer Peter Hurley managed to land himself a tour of the Oracle Team USA compound while the team is over there training and preparing to defend their America’s Cup title. The tour, arranged through friend and Oracle Team USA tactician, Andrew Campbell, turned into a surprise portrait […]

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Have Your Models Hold a Giant Sandwich To Make Them Look Slimmer or Jacked

Portrait photography is a lie. At best you could call it partial truth. It’s all about showing what we want to show in a person and hiding what we don’t. So do I think this is a bad thing? Not at all, which is why I’m sharing with you Peter Hurley’s latest tutorial video on […]

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Book Review: The Headshot, by Peter Hurley

You can look at my work and compare it with the books I’ve read and you’ll probably be able to tell which book I read because it strongly influences my work. Well, even though I just finished Peter Hurley’s book, The Headshot, he has been influencing my work ever since he was featured on Scott Kelby’s […]