On a photography group on linkedin someone asked for advice on what settings worked best for portraiture. I replied thus: You have great advice, and a wonderful example (which I have made a favourite on flickr).Let me add some basics, apologies for teaching you to suck eggs if you know all this already, but just …
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Tips for a model to get a few simple shots with a compact camera
Some advice given to a model who was a little too far away to come to me for a portfolio shoot. Key to starting your portfolio is to get some good basic shots showing you in a few simple poses.I am going to assume that you have access to a basic compact camera, something a …
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Just started a Twibe. Visit http://twibes.com/portraiture to join.
Lina
Lina Originally uploaded by DreamShots I follow several photographers on flickr, and DreamShots is one of my favourites. He creates shots with fantastic lighting, great poses, and superb emotion. Even when taking very simple concepts, such as here, he executes them brilliantly (and I wish I had thought of this). In princple, such art should …
Just added myself to the #phot…
Just added myself to the #photography, #portraiture, #modelling, and #TFP Twitter lists on http://twibes.com
Shooting portraits
On a group on Facebook, a beginner posted links to some nice vivid family photos and asked how he could do the same. I posted the reply below. His own camera is a Nikon D90 with a 50mm f1.8 prime lens. Yes, you can achieve the same sort of results with your camera. The Nikon …
A photo story
We had lined up a different kind of photoshoot to the usual modelling and portraiture work we do. Namely, we were going to attempt to tell a story. I had been off sick for a couple of days so was not sure that I was going to be well enough to go ahead with the …
Hectic weekend
A busy weekend of photoshoots, planning for photoshoots, processing photos, and teaching my daughter to drive.