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How To Use Photography Props for Great Portraits Chicken Nerd © Kevin Landwer-Johan

Best Portrait Photography Props (How to Find and Use Them)

Creating incredible portraits involves finding the right portrait photography props and using them well. Our article shows you how to find and use props to make incredible portraits. Portrait photography can be challenging when you first start. Coming up with good photoshoot ideas and poses or knowing where to place

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How to Create a Cinematic Photography Look for Portraits

Cinematic photography looks like a screen grab from a movie. It involves controlled lighting and composition, lens choice and model direction. And some post-processing know-how. In this article, I will show you how to create portraits with a cinematic look and feel to them. Cinematic Photography: Camera Orientation for Cinematic

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How to Choose the Best Camera Settings for Portraits

Choosing camera settings for portrait photography can be difficult. And knowing which lens is best is even more so. Let’s take a look at each basic setting to know and lens options so that we can clear up some confusion for you. Camera Settings for Portraits: Which Lens? Before we

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How to Crop Portraits for Better Photography

When it comes to photography, cropping is an essential tool for creating better images. In this article, we’ll show you how to crop portraits for better results. We’ll discuss the benefits of cropping, and we’ll provide some tips on how to choose the right crops for your photos How to

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How to Photograph Professional Headshots (Corporate)

If you shoot portrait photography at all, you’ve most likely considered getting into corporate headshot photography to expand your client list. One of the big advantages to shooting business headshots is that a client will typically have you do multiple portraits in one session. This means it’s a higher-paying shoot

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What Is an Editorial Portrait: 10 Photography Tips Attractive Young Woman Outdoors

10 Tips for Better Editorial Portrait Photography

Editorial portraiture is all about capturing the essence of a person in an image. It’s not just about taking a pretty picture; it’s about telling a story and creating a portrait that has real meaning. In order to take great editorial portraits, you need to understand some basic principles. Here

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5 Portrait Editing Mistakes You Have to Avoid

With digital photography, it’s easy to take a good portrait and make it even better with some basic editing in Photoshop. But if you don’t know what you’re doing, you can easily make mistakes that will ruin your photo. Here are the five most common mistakes people make with portrait

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12 Best Composition Techniques for Family Portraits

Family portraits can be a treasured memory for years to come. It’s worth learning about family photography composition techniques. They’ll help you capture perfect moments the whole family will love! Continue reading for our top tips on family photography composition techniques. By the end of this article, you’ll be able

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How to Choose the Best Portrait Backgrounds for Photos

Portrait backgrounds are available everywhere, but not all of them will make your portrait photography stand out as much as they deserve. To solve this problem, you need to familiarise yourself with various backdrops. You also need to understand your own creative style, as this will strongly influence the photography

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How to Create a Black Background for Photos (Step by Step)

Did you know that the most important thing in creating a black background is not a black cloth, wall or backdrop? there are many ways you can recreate that dark atmosphere. In this article, we’ll show you exactly how to create black backgrounds for your photos. Hint: it’s all about

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How to Shoot Live Concert Photography (7 Tips)

Live music photography is one of the most exhilarating and exciting genres of photography out there. It’s also one of the, if not THE, most challenging in my opinion. Concert photography comes with low-light situations, quick movement, unpredictability, and limited shooting time. These elements make getting quality images tough, but

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10 Tips for Innovative Environmental Portrait Photos

Environmental portraits have nothing to do with climate change. They’re different from nature photos or pictures about saving the environment. So, what are environmental portraits? These images fall somewhere between a staged studio portrait and a candid portrait. And the place you take the picture plays a big role in telling the

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