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Portraits 4

Shooting Portraits on the (Right) Level

Full-length shots give dramatically different impressions depending on your height. When you’re photographing someone from up high, they can end up distorted in your picture—for example with shortened legs. Let’s take an illustrated look together at the effects that height and distance can have on portraits.

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Your Model Who Can’t Pose… Can!

Geniuses are made, not born. Math geniuses, soccer geniuses… even posing geniuses. So if your model looks awkward in every shot, on the one hand, it’s not your fault. On the other hand, you do need to get a good pose. And you can!

Other Photography Topics 0

The Three Photos You’re Taking Today That Will Date You Tomorrow

These are the photos that scream “early 21st century!”

Composition 0

Be Professional: Sketch Before You Shoot

No matter whether you’re photographing models in a studio or mountains outdoors, preparing in advance will make your work a lot easier. I’m not talking here about checking your equipment and charging your batteries. I mean charging up with an idea. It pays off to have everything planned and prepared in advance. That way, you…

Advanced Edits 0

Basic Portrait Retouching in Zoner

Nobody’s perfect—even in pictures. Until you retouch them! That’s why Zoner Photo Studio offers a number of tools and ways to make an “imperfect” model look almost perfect. In this article we’ll tell you what to retouch, how to do it, and what to use.

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Boldly onto the Street—8 Tricks for Better Street Photos

In photography it can be hard to judge if one genre is harder than another. Ultimately all the landscape photographers will call landscape photography the hardest, portrait photographers will say portraiture’s the hardest, etc. But quite a few photographers will agree (even if they won’t admit it) that taking documentary photos is not easy. Meanwhile,…

Working With Light 2

Indoor Portraits? Use Natural Light!

Sure, the pros may use a wide array of expensive lights to take their studio portraits of celebrities. But you can pay nothing and get unique indoor portraits with just one—the Sun.

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6 Tips for “People Pictures”

No matter whether you’re planning to photograph portraits, glamour, fashion, or nudes, you’re taking “people pictures.” And they all have something in common. We’d like to help you get ready for these genres with a few universal tips. 1) How Do I Find a Model? The first step is to not be shy. Ask someone…

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