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Posts Tagged ‘Portrait’
Jason Todd Photography: Portrait Portfolio Book
20
Oct
Portraiture Photography by Jason Todd 11×14 inch book.
Video Rating: 5 / 5
Portrait Lighting for Photography and Video!
20
Oct
There are several lighting positions that photographers have developed over the years. People like George Hurrell, who used tungsten to shoot stars, used these lighting positions. Learn to identify what a butterfly or Rembrandt light is. Knowing these positions, and where the light placed to create them, will help you see how photographers light their images. These are departure points from which you will create your own look and direction. Its hard to depart from someplace you have never been there. This will teach you the basics and give you a good foundation to build on. This video is not as slick as some of the others we have done but it has great basic instructions on portrait lighting. (Don’t miss the ending its the most exciting part!)
Video Rating: 4 / 5
Speed drawing portrait in dry brush technique. HD.
20
Oct
Classical speed drawing of a portrait by oil paints in technics of a dry brush. In this video tutorial shows the basic steps of working and sequence of portraits in dry brush technique. Actual time of drawing 2 hours. (Oil paint, solar oil, paper). This video is posted in HD quality and can be viewed in 3D format. Switch on the player for the 3D effect at p 720 that would see the stereoscopic effect. Portrait painter Yakov Dedyk. “Hillary Duff” yakovdedyk.narod.ru http
Video Rating: 4 / 5
Portrait Retouching Tutorial Part 2 (PSD Box)
18
Oct
On the second part I continue with the makeup, lips coloring, color and contrast adjustments, illumination adjustments, enhancing hair color and special light effects. www.psdbox.com ___________________________________________ Subscribe and get the latest tutorials Website: www.psdbox.com RSS feeds.feedburner.com Facebook: www.facebook.com Newsletter: www.psdbox.com DeviantART: psd-box.deviantart.com Flickr www.flickr.com Twitter: twitter.com
Video Rating: 5 / 5
Engagement Portrait Shoots: 7 Professional Tips to take your Engagement Shoots to the Next Level
17
Oct
Today portrait photographer Christina N Dickson shares tips on how to shoot engagement portraits. Christina’s work can be found at www.ChristinaNicholePhotography.com.
Shooting engagement portraits are perhaps some of the most enjoyable for photographers. Most often, they are taken before the whirlwind of wedding planning is fully underway, and the couple is still quite enamored with one another. How do you take advantage of this time and produce incredible images? Follow these few steps to achieve real and vibrant engagement portraits.
1. Be involved!
As a photographer, you must keep your people skills sharp. With engagement photos, you have to do your research on the couple you are photographing. What are they like as a couple? What are they like as individuals? What is their wedding going to be like? How did they meet? This is going to affect the way you want to build your images and portray them.
2. Encourage affection!
Rather than posing each shot, ie, “okay, now you kiss her cheek!” encourage your couple to show as much affection as possible. Every couple does certain things to show one another love. If you want to capture them accurately, you will urge this type of interaction.
3. Be observant!
A couple is most natural when they are focusing on one another. Try to direct the shoot by suggesting they talk to one another, telling one another most embarrassing moments, or 5 things they love about each other– topics that will pull out expression, interaction, and affection.
4. Remember that space determines relationship!
If a couple is leaning in for a kiss, or walking arm in arm, you will be able to communicate a message of intimacy. Sometimes you can get sweet shots with contrast and tension in the picture by placing the couple far apart in the frame, but be sure that this is your purpose if your going to do it.
5. Tell a story.
No love story is the same. Find unique traits about the couple, and then pull this out in the creation of your images. If the couple is perfectly at ease with one another because they have been best friends for 10 years, you can create images with a laid back and contented feel. If the couple has had a whirlwind romance after meeting on e-harmony.com, it will be natural to pull out the affection and passion of their relationship
6. Be open to suggestions!
Often times the bride to be will have an idea for a shot she will suggest to you before hand. Other times her fiancé may think of an idea on the spot during the shoot. If you can integrate these ideas into your shooting, you will delight the couple, and possibly find yourself inspired by new ideas.
7. Be personable!
If you get to know your couple, and allow them to fall in love with your personality and style, you have a good chance of booking them for a wedding also. Your job is not only to take good pictures, but also to give them a fabulous time they will remember for the rest of their lives.
Post originally from: Digital Photography Tips.
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Engagement Portrait Shoots: 7 Professional Tips to take your Engagement Shoots to the Next Level
Watch This: Jay P. Morgan’s Corporate Portrait Primer
16
Oct
Commercial photographer Jay P. Morgan’s The Slanted Lens videos (which you may remember from this insane portrait) are consistently good stuff.
Today, he dials it back a notch or three to give a great walk-thru on corporate portraiture. Solid basic info, plus some tips that you may well not have known. Trust me, the flag-for-light-shirts thing alone will save you much needless Photoshopping…
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BTS: Jonathan Snyder’s So-Cool-It-Must-Be-Fake Night Portrait
16
Oct
When this photo popped up on Gizmodo last week, several of the site's readers could not quite process how the image could have been made. I tweeted at the time that I hoped the guy who shot it was one of our old DINFOS lighting students.
As it turns out, Strobist reader and USAF SSgt. Jonathan Snyder attended the "one extra" Flash Bus day McNally and I did for the Defense Information School in 2011 at Fort Meade in Maryland.
Milphogs are taught to improvise in the field as a matter of course. And turns out, this image was made with neither a tripod nor a speedlight… Read more »
Winter Reads: Secrets of Great Portrait Photography
16
Oct
Looking for a good book to curl up with this winter? You're in luck. There is a stream of great choices hitting Amazon this season. I'll be highlighting a few of them as we head into the holidays.
Because, you know, you gotta put something reasonable on your wish list, right? It can't all be $ 30,000 Hasselblad/Ferrari limited edition cameras.
This week: Secrets of Great Portrait Photography, by Brian Smith.
Short version: Don't let the generic-sounding title put you off. This book is dynamite—chock full of valuable info and experience. Read more »
Removing color Cast out of Flower Using a Portrait Retouching Technique
01
Aug
This video from www.acmeeducational.com shows Vincent Versace showing how to remove color cast from a flower using a retouching technique
Video Rating: 4 / 5