Stunning Portraits: Manipulating White Balance - Digital Photography School

Stunning Portraits: Manipulating White Balance - Digital Photography School: "am always looking for more interesting and unique ways to take interesting and beautiful portraits. It is a personal challenge for me to push my own creative envelope as much as possible so that I am constantly broadening my own bold and colorful style. There are so many ways to take a portrait the possibilities are almost endless and the range of emotional and psychological expressions that can be achieved are truly spectacular. "

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How to Achieve Blurred Backgrounds in Portraits - Digital Photography School

How to Achieve Blurred Backgrounds in Portraits - Digital Photography School: "A request I hear over and over from my students, is that they want to know how to create a beautiful, soft, blurred background like the image you see here.  There is a big misconception among new photographers that you need to go out and buy an expensive lens with a really big aperture to be able to achieve such a look."

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10 Ways to Direct a Portrait Shoot like a Pro - Digital Photography School

10 Ways to Direct a Portrait Shoot like a Pro - Digital Photography School: "Have you ever been served by a rude shop assistant or waiter that was in a bad mood? How did it make you feel?

Your mood on the day of your shoot is going to have a huge impact on the people around you. If you want the people you photograph to look and feel relaxed then you should look and feel relaxed too."

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10 Tips for Creating Great Family Portraits - Digital Photography School

10 Tips for Creating Great Family Portraits - Digital Photography School: "With my background being in classic style studio portraiture (aka “boring”), and 25 years experience photographing portraits and weddings, I have a few tips up my sleeve for you. If you’ve never done a family or group portrait before don’t be intimidated. Be honest with the family and tell they you’re just learning, I bet they’ll be willing participants to help you out and they get some nice photos in exchange."

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5 Fail Proof Portrait Poses - Digital Photography School

5 Fail Proof Portrait Poses - Digital Photography School: "When I was starting out as a portrait photographer, I began creating a visual diary and mimicking the images I loved. Some people will tell you that it’s wrong to copy but for centuries, every generation of artist has imitated the masters before them. Once they’ve mastered the technique they move on to develop their own style."

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13 Tips for Improving Outdoor Portraits - Digital Photography School

13 Tips for Improving Outdoor Portraits - Digital Photography School: "Outdoor Portraits present portrait photographers a variety of challenges and opportunities. Today James Pickett from America the Lost suggests 13 tips to help you with your outdoor portrait work."

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10 Techniques for Amazing Portraits - Digital Photography School

10 Techniques for Amazing Portraits - Digital Photography School: "s full-time photographers shooting 30+ weddings a year, we have to admit, sometimes it’s easy to fall into the same old formulas when it comes to portraits. Even with new poses, taking portraits can become very mundane if the same compositions and angles are used for every couple–we’ve definitely been through that creative rut where our pictures start looking very familiar. Throughout the years, we’ve challenged ourselves to stay on top of our game with a few useful techniques. Here are some of our best tips to help keep things fresh and unique for each couple."

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How to Take Portraits - 19 Portrait Photography Tutorials - Digital Photography School

How to Take Portraits - 19 Portrait Photography Tutorials - Digital Photography School: "Today I spent time digging through the Digital Photography School archives (there are now over 600 tutorials and articles) and noticed that we’ve covered the topic of Portrait Photography from a large variety of angles. I thought it would be useful to list some of the more popular portrait photography tips all in the one place"

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10 More Tips for Stunning Portrait Photography - Digital Photography School

10 More Tips for Stunning Portrait Photography - Digital Photography School: "esterday I shared 10 Ways to take Stunning Portrait Photography. We covered everything from altering your perspective as a photographer, to experimenting with lighting, to shooting candidly.

Today I want to continue on the same train of thought with 10 more tips for adding a little spice to your portraits."

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8 Posing Guides to Inspire Your Portraiture - Digital Photography School

8 Posing Guides to Inspire Your Portraiture - Digital Photography School: "mong the most read posts on dPS in the last year was a series of posing guides written by Kaspars Grinvalds.

We published the first in the series not intending to do much more than that – but the response from readers was so overwhelming that we kept going back to Kaspars for more.

Here’s the full series – enjoy!"

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Awash In Light: High Key Portraiture - Digital Photography School

Awash In Light: High Key Portraiture - Digital Photography School: "When shooting portraits, the very first decision I make is what look I’m going for. The answer to that question lies directly in how I want to light the scene.  Generally, I want to evoke a mood or a feeling.  Low key portraiture which has dramatic lighting, tends to be very moody, while high key portraiture will have a more even light, with very few harsh shadows.  High key lighting tends to make the scene much more upbeat."

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