Photographers can get in over their heads wanting to photograph everything, especially when they’re trying to make ends meet. I understand it’s hard to pass up the opportunity for a paid gig when you’re a freelancer, but marketing yourself as a photographer who shoots everything is counterproductive.
Ah, the age-old question. Should I invest in speedlights or strobes? As we lighting geeks are fond of saying, light is light.
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.
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.
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.
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.
For this month’s theme of families and portraits, I want to share some new ideas for how to capture images of your family.
Men and women are lit in very different ways. With men, there is more flexibility with hard light, deep shadows, a harder look overall.
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.
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.
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