All Entries Tagged With: "portrait"
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Top 10 Tips for Dynamite Digital Photography
By Tom Grimm and Michele Grimm,
Authors of The Basic Book of Digital Photography: How to Shoot, Enhance, and Share Your Digital Pictures
Here are 10 easy ways to greatly improve your digital photographs and avoid the pitfalls that are common with today’s automatic cameras. Professional photographers Michele and Tom Grimm offer these and many more tips [...]
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The Formal Bridal Couple Portrait
It is said that the easiest people in the world to pose are those that are in love. I’ve often found this very true.
Couples in love want to touch each other, to be close to one another, and to share their happiness with others and they want it all to look natural. That’s [...]
Portrait of a Groom
There are stark differences in providing a great portrait of a bride and that of a groom. While the bride’s portrait is often bathed in soft light and the focus on beauty, the groom’s portrait is that of a more defined genre. The photograph shouldn’t really come across as hard or moody but [...]
ExpoImaging Teams with One Model Place for Ray Flash Photo Contest [Press Release]
Contest to Award Photographers for Best Pictures Taken with
Ray Flash Ring Light Adapter
WATSONVILLE, CA/MIAMI, FL, January 16, 2009—ExpoImaging Inc., developer
of innovative camera accessories, including the ExpoDisc Digital White
Balance Filter and the ExpoAperture2 Depth-of-Field Guide, and One Model
Place, the world’s largest online portfolio and talent community, today
announced a contest in which the best images shot with [...]
Photographing Zombies
The undead can be really be hard to flatter in photography. I mean, most times you really want to capture the “life” and the “soul” of a person when doing a portrait. But what do you do when your subjects have no life and no soul?
You do what Tanya Plonka would do. [...]
The Formal Bride and Groom Portrait
We haven’t much talked about Wedding Photography here at Your Photo Tips because initially this website was started to help new photographers learn the craft of photography. I do get emails from people, albeit sporadically, about help on their first wedding assignment and I’m heading to Florida to shoot a wedding next summer so [...]
See The Shadows
We asked our readers in the Your Photo Tips.com Flickr Group to give us some of their best one sentence photography tips and we had a great response! For the next few weeks I’ll be elaborating, in my own words, what those photo tips mean to me and how they can help you become a [...]
How To Take Great Baby Pictures
As many of you may know we have a new addition to our family. So it only seems appropriate that we discuss how to take great baby pictures. There are many things to consider when composing a baby portrait. Here are a few.
Use the right lens
Lenses are super important to all aspects [...]
Using Leading To Engage Your Viewers
You have to consider that when you create a photograph you should have your viewers in mind. This is true whether you take photographs for your family or for clients. There are many things that we have to consider when crafting a technically sound photograph. Of course there are basic design elements [...]
Lighting Techniques: Guide To Buying Lights
Last week we looked at The 3 Light Set Up and before that we talked general information on Lighting Equipment. Today we’ll look a little more specifically into lighting equipment purchasing, and using what you have to get your professional studio portrait lighting off the ground.
As I’ve been writing this series on [...]
Lighting Techniques: The 3 Light Set Up
This is portrait photography 101 type stuff here. Nothing too advanced going on, we are working with only three light sources here to get a basic portrait. Think of it as foundation material. You can’t build a beautiful house without knowing how to pour a simple foundation.
We have three lights all pointing [...]
5 Tips for Photographing Children
Children are fascinating creatures to capture with photography. In fact, I’m willing to bet photographing your children is what brought many readers to Your Photo Tips. When you start thinking about the importance of creating an archive of your family history through visual interpretation learning how to take better pictures is simply a [...]
Get Close and Personal for Better Portraits
This really is a simple tip for Your Photo Tips readers. When composing an image, especially if your subject is a person, fill the frame with the subject. Get really close!
This works well to eliminate cluttered backgrounds and keep the viewer’s eyes on your subject. A really close portrait of a person, [...]
