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Pick Up Our Brand New Portrait eBooks and Get a Free One [Limited Time Only]

23 Jan

Portraits_cover-350.jpgToday I have great pleasure to announce a brand new dPS eBook that I know is going to help a lot of people improve their portrait photography!

Every time we survey our readers on what type of photography they do most – Portraiture comes in as the #1 response.

So over the last year I’ve been on the look out for a great portrait photographer to write a comprehensive guide to the topic. When I met Aussie celebrity photography Gina Milicia last year I just ‘knew’ she’d be great at it and was so excited when she agreed.

Gina’s new eBook is available today – it is called Portraits: Making the Shot and if you pick it up during its launch we’ll throw in a special bonus eBook with it for free.

What this Portraits: Making the Shot Covers

Gina has broken down her guide to portraiture into 5 great sections:

  • The Rules: learn the 10 commandments that Gina uses to guide her photography to consistency (and brilliance)
  • The Gear: discover the best portrait gear with some tips on buying great second hand additions to your kit.
  • The 3 Amigos: This is where many beginner photographers get themselves into a twist, but it’s a lot simpler than you might think. Learn how aperture, ISO and shutter speed work together.
  • The Lights: Step-by-step instructions on using light meters, balancing daylight and flash and creating beautiful skin tone.
  • The Moves: Every pose you’ll need and how to create it, as well as tips on finding inspiration, the importance of preparation and insider tricks on directing the shot.

Free Bonus Portrait Recipes eBook

As a companion to Portraits: Making the Shot Gina also put together a 2nd great ‘Recipes’ eBook in which she shows 14 of her favourite portraits and shows you the ingredients she used to take the shots. In each recipe you’ll learn about how Gina set the scene, what gear she used, how she lit the image, what settings she chose and how she posed her subject.

Once you understand how these different ingredients work together, you can begin to create your own signature style of shooting portraits.

This Recipe eBook will normally retail for $ 9.99 but pick up Portraits: Making the Shot today for $ 19.99 and we’ll throw it in for free as an early bird bonus (effectively a 33% discount).

Pick Up a Copy Today

As usual Portraits: Making the Shot is covered by a 60 day money back guarantee (if you don’t find it helpful just let us know and we’ll refund your money) so you can have confidence that it and the bonus Recipes eBook will be a worthwhile investment in your photographic learning.

Learn more about the eBook here or pick up a copy by clicking the ‘Download it Now’ button below.

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Pick Up Our Brand New Portrait eBooks and Get a Free One [Limited Time Only]


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Studio Lighting Setups for Portrait Photography: Part II

23 Jan

This is another in a series of articles on studio lighting that I put together with help from Karl Leopold at ImagesForever.net in Melbourne, Florida. Karl graciously opened his studio to me and patiently went through the basics of lighting a studio portrait. Last time we went over a fairly basic three-point lighting setup for studio photography and that was Continue Reading

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Zack Arias Flash Photography – 5 Min Portrait

17 Jan

froknowsphoto.com I got to spend the day with Zack Arias when he held his OneLight workshop at my studio/apartment. What an amazing teacher, photographer and person. This guy is all about teaching, doing better and passing on the knowledge. After a long 17 hour day I asked Zack if he would be able to do a 5 min portrait of me to post on the site for all of you guys to see. We started shooting right around 2 AM and Zack was able to hammer out some AMAZING portraits. I think you will be able to pick up some lighting nuggets from Zack during this video. You will see him go from one or two speedlights to using three. Zack is a master with speedlights, it was truly an honor to get to pose for a portrait with him. Please Subscribe www.youtube.com

Time-lapse video covering my traveling and hiking around Iceland. Remember to watch in 720p quality! Unfortunately I have started to shoot timelapses only in the end of my stay and that is why there is not a lot of great locations I visited before. Shot with: Nikon D300 Edited: Adobe Lightroom iMovie LRtimelapse (lrtimelapse.com) Music: Jónsi – Around Us (jonsi.com) Sigur Rós – Staralfur (sigur-ros.co.uk) Created by: David Varga Photos from my travels: dvarga.net Want to come to ICELAND? Go to: www.extremeiceland.is
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A portrait with Hannah Yandow

12 Jan

A simple test shoot with one light at the SLC Photocollective.  These types of shoots are my favorite and Hannah was a dream to work with.  So easy to shoot!

Model: Hannah Yandow (hannahyandow on instagram)


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Studio lighting Portrait photography tutorial

06 Jan

Using the smick.co.uk 120cm octagonal softbox Gavin Hoey shows how by just using this one softbox and a 400Ws studio flash head for his studio lighting setup to produce some quality portraits. Live action show shows how Gavin uses several different lighting setups and shows you just how to produce quality results in a simple to understand way. We have a number of different Studio Flash Kits from a single head studio flash kit to 3 head Studio Flash kits www.smick.co.uk

 

Studio Lighting Setups for Portrait Photography

04 Jan

This begins a series of articles on studio lighting that I put together with help from Karl Leopold at ImagesForever.net in Melbourne, Florida. Karl graciously opened his studio to me and patiently went through the basics of lighting a studio portrait. Portrait lighting is one of those deceptive subjects where it’s easy to grasp the concept, but can take years Continue Reading

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Portrait Photography with Graham Monro

03 Jan

Learn how to shoot great portraits in this photographer tutorial. Graham Monro, EOS Master and Professional Commercial Photographer, talks about his tips on taking portraits and the gear he uses such as the Canon 5D Mark II. Graham talks about his experience in the domestic field of photography as well as the importance of lighting and composition. Join in, find the inspiration for your photography and share at www.canon.com.au/worldofeos

A Masterclass in Professional Printing from Epson and Gary Wornell Certified Digigraphie printmaker and artist, Gary Wornell, talks about his work and how he produces it using a range of mediums including Epson media, aluminium, steel and hand coated Japanese papers. Wornell tells us about the importance of accurate colour representation and how by using large format inkjet technology he is able to accurately reproduce captured images.

 

Our 14 Best Portrait Photography Tutorials of 2012

29 Dec

NewImageThis week as part of our ‘Best of 2012 Series‘ we’re looking back on the year that was and sharing the most popular posts in different categories. Today we’re looking over the hot portrait tutorials of the year – many of which were among the most popular posts among all categories on the blog this year.

Enjoy!

  1. Portrait Tip: Don’t Fill the Frame
  2. 6 Portrait Lighting Patterns Every Photographer Should Know
  3. 5 Tips for Flattering Maternity Photography
  4. Poser: Achieve Perfect Portrait Expression
  5. 10 Reasons to Shoot Portraits During the Golden Hour [Illustrated]
  6. Cut the Cheese: 5 Tips for Photographing Kids
  7. Lighting Ratios to Make or Break your Portrait
  8. How to Create Backlight or Hairlight outdoors with Natural Light
  9. Using Facial View and Camera Angle to take Flattering Portraits
  10. Using a White Wall as a Photo Background
  11. How to Take Creative Couples Portraits
  12. How to Achieve Blurred Backgrounds in Portraits
  13. One Light Portraits: Simple Elegance
  14. Studio Lighting: Building a Light Set-Up

Want more portrait tips? Check out our best portrait tips of 2011 here.

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DEAL: 73% Off our Perfect Portrait Pack [Today Only]

23 Dec

NewImageEvery time we survey our readers about their photography the #1 thing that they tell us that they are pointing their cameras at is… PEOPLE.

So today in our 12 Days of Christmas we decided to put together a bundle of 3 eBooks to help you perfect your portraiture.

The bundle contains 3 of our most popular eBooks:

1. The Essential Guide to Portrait Photography – struggling to take portraits with that WOW factor?

This ebook will help you achieve your true potential as a portrait photographer (learn more about it here).

2. The Art of Self Portraiture – Self Portraiture is something that many artistic greats have engaged in both as a way of honing their craft but also as a way of expressing themselves.

Self-Portraiture in photography can similarly help improve your photographic technique as well as give you a way to show off who you really are (learn more about it here).

3. Click: How to Take Gorgeous Photos of Your Kids – Kids are one of the most photographed subjects by users of digital cameras – however they’re also one of the most challenging.

Click! is an eBook all about empowering parents, grandparents and others with kids in their lives to take kid portraits that are both beautiful and reflect the personalities of the children in the shots (learn more about it here).

These 3 eBooks normally retail for $ 70 but today we’re offering them for just $ 19 – that’s 73% off (our biggest discount of the whole 12 days). You can order your bundle of 3 Portrait eBooks here – for 24 hours only.

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The portrait

19 Dec

Back in the years of amateur photographer I met the following thought “Close your eyes to see the invisible”. Then I touched every taken photo on my own. One picture-something so simple is the reason to keep in mind the beautiful memories in our life.. “The portrait” — that are our memories…and fears. That are our erased dreams and desirable future. Closing eyes, touching it, the portrait takes us back in our darker experiences, oppressed deep in us. Almost every woman suffers from violence ( in different forms). Don’t close your eyes, speak out your problems. You are not invisible for the society. There is always someone next to you who can give you a hope.
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Making of Canon L Series 500mm F4L IS USM. Part 1 of 3 in the production of expensive camera gear. L series is Canon’s Premium lens line featuring fluorite lenses. IS refers to Image Stabilzation build into the lens, and USM refers to Ultrasonic Motor drive that makes focusing faster than older systems. Currently I’m using a Rebel XT, although I’m thinking of upgrading to an XTi or 5DMk2. This 500 with the New 5D would be a sweet combination. www.razorfantasygirls.com
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