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How to Light & Shoot a Dramatic Portrait by Yourself
In this video, we’ll show you how to set up your flash and shoot portraits all by yourself! This is a great technique to learn when you are solo-shooting or don’t have an assistant to help you out. A big thank you to Profoto for sponsoring this video!
5 Reasons Your Couples Portraits May Look Awkward (And How To Prevent It)
So you’ve just finished your first couples portrait session and once you’ve gotten home and started looking through the images,…
Tips for Photographing Your Own Children
I thought I would share some of the most common tips that I give to my students when they ask me for advice on photographing their own children. By the way, these tips apply to all types of cameras, so no need for a fancy expensive camera to apply these guiding principles!
Lightroom Luminar Workflow | How to Use Lightroom and Luminar Together
Skylum Software launched the much-anticipated update for their flagship software, Luminar 4. Why was this so buzzed about? It’s largely…
Plagued by Hotspots? Frequency Separation to the Rescue!
Glaring hot spots can be like the plague when it comes to shooting portraits. All too often the circumstances of…
How To Shoot an Astrophotography Panorama
With Christmas just around the corner and the year drawing to a close, the team at Syrp wanted to release…
Quickly Fix Skin Tones In Your Images With ColourmapX
A headache I’ve heard a lot about from retouchers out there when doing portrait work is dealing with skin tones….
The 5 Dollar Studio – How To Create Great Portraits Anywhere
Capturing an incredible portrait doesn’t always mean you have to have thousands of dollars worth of gear in order to “Get it right” for your clients. Follow along as Gary Friedman shows how you can create a properly lit portrait with just a “5 Dollar Studio” that fits in your backpack.
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