Lighting
Top 10 Lighting Questions Answered with Michael Corsentino
Ah, the age-old question. Should I invest in speedlights or strobes? As we lighting geeks are fond of saying, light is light.
11/01/2016
Business
2 Ways to Quickly Grow Your Client Base with Laurin Thienes
When you are getting started, growing your client base is the most challenging and important task. If you’re a portrait photographer, you’re probably focusing on one or all of the following areas: families, seniors, children, babies.
10/03/2016
Business
3 Tips for Building Your First Portfolio with Jeff Rojas
Putting together your first portfolio can be intimidating. What photographs should I choose? What type of paper should I use? Should I bind my portfolio? Should I stick to digital instead of print? Things will start to feel a bit overwhelming.
10/03/2016
Business
What’s in Your Bag of Tricks for the Holiday Season? with Skip Cohen
The two major holiday seasons for photographers in the United States are the November-December holidays and, in the spring, Mother’s Day, graduations and Father’s Day.
10/03/2016
Glamour Photography
Building a Mobile Portrait Studio with Miguel Quiles
If you have a studio portrait business, you’ve probably had potential clients who wanted to do business with you but couldn’t make it to your studio. I decided to maximize my sales opportunities by creating our Studio-to-You package: I literally take my studio to them.
10/03/2016
Shutter Magazine
Take a Step Back: A Personal Approach to Portrait Photography with Melanie Anderson
For this month’s theme of families and portraits, I want to share some new ideas for how to capture images of your family.
10/03/2016
Lighting
Lighting Male Portraits with Michael Corsentino
Men and women are lit in very different ways. With men, there is more flexibility with hard light, deep shadows, a harder look overall.
10/03/2016
Commercial Photography
1,774 Headshots in 16 Hours with Vanessa Joy
As a wedding photographer, I envy portrait shooters who work inside a studio and not on location. They get as much time as they need to set up the perfect lighting and settings, and do everything else that goes into a studio photograph.
10/03/2016
Commercial Photography
3 Steps to Perfect Headshots with Moshe Zusman
When I moved from photographing mostly weddings to doing what I do now—mainly headshots, portraits and fashion—I hit a learning curve. Trying to figure out on my own how to control light in a studio was very different from shooting on location.
10/03/2016
Business
Shooting Family Portraits for Large Prints with Blair Phillips
It’s easy for families to become disconnected and completely lose the importance of family portraits. Your sell can be greatly impacted by the relationship they have within the home.
10/03/2016
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