Category: Portrait Photography

This is the perfect angle for portrait photography. Really. It’s “proven by science”

John Aldred

Ed Gregory at Photos in Color makes a pretty bold claim in his new video. It’s titled “Why this is the perfect PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHY angle – Proven by SCIENCE”  The exact angle for perfect headshots every single time. It’s a shame that this video from  has such a misleading and clickbaity title, because it does have some good […]

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How to setup a simple home studio combining natural and continuous light

John Aldred

Setting up a home studio in a small space isn’t always easy. That’s especially true if you need to use it as a regular room, too. You need something that’s easy to setup and break down. But, if you have a space with a nice window or access to continuous light sources, it’s pretty straight […]

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How to overpower the sun and balance with strobes using ND filters

John Aldred

Trying to overpower the sun seems to have become a popular thing again lately. The go-to technique for these results is a fast shutter speed and high speed sync. But the limited power available in speedlights often falls a little short. Now, with more powerful HSS-capable strobes on the market, like the Godox AD360II and AD600BM, […]

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How zooming with your lens and your feet changes relationship between foreground and background

Dunja Djudjic

Before you raise your torches and pitchforks, this is not another post about how focal length affects your subject, or whether you should “zoom with your feet” or not. I’m sure you’ve already seen how changing focal length and/or distance changes perspective, but this video answers an important question – what can you do with […]

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How to find great portrait locations even in the ugliest neighborhood

Dunja Djudjic

Sometimes even in the crappiest conditions you can make great photos. Although, I thought this was impossible in the part of the city where I live. However, this video from Jordan Matter helped me change my point of view. It shows you how to choose great locations for your headshots even when you’re limited to […]

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Simplified posing for beginners, breaking down the building & tweaking of poses

John Aldred

Posing is probably the most difficult part of shooting portraits for most photographers. The technical side can be learned relatively easily. Your style just develops over time based on what you like. But posing, directing a subject, getting the expressions that you want. Is art in itself. And if you’re working with the general public […]

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How to easily use gels to create virtually any color background

Jeff Carpenter

Implementing gels into your photography is a really simple and effective way to make sure your images really stand out from the rest of the crowd. There are a ton of different ways to use gels to create some absolutely stunning imagery, but in this post, I am just going to show you a few […]

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Adobe might turn selfies into decent portraits using AI

Dunja Djudjic

Adobe has been experimenting with new features and algorithms lately. They have recently tested a solution that applies the style of one photo to the other. But this new feature could be groundbreaking for all the selfie lovers out there. In their latest video, they offered a preview of the future of selfie photography using […]

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This is what photographers need to know about the modelling industry

Jake Hicks

I think it’s fair to say that most photographers will at some point in their career have to work with models at least once. Whether you’re a still life shooter that photographs models’ hands holding a fork full of food a couple of times a year or an e-commerce shooter that works with models every […]

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These are three essential components for telling story in a single photo

Dunja Djudjic

You know what they say: a picture is worth a thousand words. But telling a story with a single image is not an easy task. As you know, there are many essential components of a good photo, both regarding technical quality and the story it tells. Photographers Chase Jarvis and Joe McNally teamed up to […]

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