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How To Shot and Edited Golden Hour Portrait

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  Golden hour portraits are the favorite of many photographers who love the combination of soft, flattering, and warm light with a dramatic sky as a backdrop, and they tend to be a favorite of many clients as well. This awesome video tutorial will show you both how to shoot and edit a golden hour portrait.  Coming to you from FJH Photography, this excellent video tutorial will show you how he shot and edited a golden hour portrait. If you are new to this sort of portrait, they can make for fantastic images, but one thing that is crucial to note is that Hernandez is using a monolight to augment the shot. This is because he placed the sun behind the model for a dramatic effect, but in doing so, he needs to lower his overall exposure to avoid blowing out the highlights in the sky. By consequence, this throws his subject into shadow, and to avoid image quality losses brought about by drastically bringing up the exposure on her, he uses light to balance the over...

6 Photography Poses Every Portrait Photographer Should Avoid

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In portrait photography, posing can be both tricky and fun. To make your photoshoot a stress-free experience, you can download posing guides, get to know your model’s best angles, and make them mimic your own photography poses. One of the best ways to avoid unflattering photos is to know what to avoid. Here are 6 photography poses your model should avoid, no matter who they are. Shooting From a Very Low Angle While Your Model Looks Down Looking down isn’t a problem. In fact, it looks incredible in most photos because of its emotional and mysterious effect. Shooting from a low angle isn’t the problem either, because low-angle images are usually atmospheric and creative. The problem begins when you model look straight down at the camera while you shoot from a low angle. You don’t want to create double chins where they don’t exist, but you also want to experiment with unusual points of view. To improve this pose, ask your model to look down with their eyes withou...

How To Take Stunning Portrait Shots (with the Samsung Galaxy S10+ camera)

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"Do I look fat in this photo?" That's probably one of the questions that your friends, family, or even yourself asks after taking a photo shot. Well, that's also probably why you're here looking for tips on how to take a good portrait shot and in this article, we will be using the latest  Samsung Galaxy S10+ . Yeah, we could have used other smartphones but the Galaxy S10+ is the real deal! Plus, the technique can be applied to most smartphones anyway. So just sit back, enjoy the photo samples and write down our tips on  How To Take Stunning Portrait Shots (with the Samsung Galaxy S10+ camera) . Use the Portrait Mode (and always have the grids enabled) Starting with the most basic tool, the Portrait Mode (it has other names too, or Live Focus, in Samsung's case) is already at your disposal in the camera user interface. Most smartphones nowadays have that feature already thanks to the dual camera trend that started out since 2016, so use it! However, ...

How To Add An Extra Smile In Photoshop Using Puppet Warp

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So now we’re going to look for a professional looking image that falls into that category. For this, I’ll be going through Pixabay.com, the site I use for free stock. Another site as well I like to use just so you know is Pexels.com. These sites are great for free stock, so if you’d like to use them too just know that they’re totally free to use. If you know any others then please add to the comments as I’m always open for suggestions for free stock sites to expand my variety of images I can use for my work without having to pay big bucks and I’m sure other readers would appreciate your input also. I would suggest just use an image that has a bit of a slight smile on it. If the face if highly distorted through emotions then it’s going to be an uphill struggle to set it right and generally in my experience, this type of retouching never really looks realistic. What we are aiming at here is to go from a  slight smile to an extra smile , putting the c...