portraits

‘Salty Girls’ – An Inspirational Photo Series Featuring Women With Cystic Fibrosis

Hanssie

'Salty Girls' aims to show the bravery and beauty of women fighting cystic fibrosis and what it does to their bodies.

An Algorithm That Tells Beautiful Portraits From The Not-So | Insight Into What Makes A Portrait Good

Kishore Sawh

Beauty, it seems, can be calculated, and those calculations give insights into how to create more memorable beautiful portraits.

How To Say No Without Losing Portrait Clients

Tanya Goodall Smith

Good customer service is key in our industry. But sometimes it's hard to say no, even to ridiculous requests clients make. Here's my arsenal of communication tips for how to say no without necessarily losing clients or sounding like a jerk.

Photographer Travels The World to Photograph The Most Beautiful Women

Hanssie

What is beauty? Photographer Mihaela Noroc is traveling the world on a mission to show that beauty is in diversity and is everywhere.

$50 DIY Continuous Lighting Set-Up For Great Portraits | Aaron Nace

Kishore Sawh

For little money, you can have a 3 light set-up for taking great portrait. Aaron Nace shows you how to make it, and make the most out of it.

How To Add Interest with Freckles In Photoshop

Kishore Sawh

Adding freckles is a much overlooked and extremely easy way to add depth and variation to your images in Photoshop. Let Aaron Nace walk you through it + Free Custom Brush

The Realities of Parenting: Photo Series Shows What Real Life With Kids Looks Like

Hanssie

This is what "real" parenting looks like...

Photographer Uses Magic To Make Mermaids Out Of Maternity Clients

Hanssie

Adam Opris is looking to push the envelope when it comes to the traditional maternity photography by taking his clients underwater. And the images are incredible, serene and graceful.

5 Ways to Help Your Clients Look (and Feel) Less Awkward In Portraits

Hanssie

As a photographer, one of your most valuable tools is to know how to get your client to forget you are there and capture the emotion/feeling in that moment and translate it onto paper. Here are some things I do when I interact with my clients so that they don't look or feel awkward in their photos.

A Comment Fueled Debate on The 50mm & 85mm Lenses For Portraits

Kishore Sawh

Weekly Imogen takes an interesting, and public look at the debate between the 50mm and 85mm lenses, primarily regarding portraiture. The side by side comparisons may surprise you.

Bride Finds Solace Through ‘Trash The Dress’ Session After Tragic Loss

Hanssie

Janine's fiancé passed away unexpectedly two months before their wedding day. To help her heal and to bring closure, Janine did a moving underwater 'trash the dress' photo shoot.

Surrealist Portrait Collages Layered Without Photoshop

Hanssie

Berlin-based artist, Michel Lamoller, has created a way to layer time in the series, 'Tautochronos'.