Portrait Photography

           I decided to search for some tips on portrait photography, in order to get some inspirations for our portrait shoot that is coming up. Once again I found two articles at the Digital Photography School's website. 10 Ways to Take Stunning Portraits and 10 More Tips for Stunning Portraits. It is two articles that guides you to take portraits that have that 'wow' factor. First of all, learn the rules of portrait photography, second of all, break them! That is basically what Darren Rowse is talking about. Throughout both the articles he gives 20 examples of composition, lightning, angles, sharpness, blur, framing and several other things. His consistent emphasis in the articles is to be creative and experimental but still be prepared and ready to go (and know what to do) before your model arrives. In every example that Rowse gives, he uses pictures which make it more fun to read through and easier to understand. These two articles are really worth to check out! 


Here are some old portrait photos that I've taken.

But below is the kind of portrait photos that I want to be able to take!

Yuri Melnikov

Julia Wilam

Magda Berny