Learn Digital Photography - How to Be Good in Portrait Photography

Portrait photography can be fun and yet difficult to master. It is normal to see photographers struggling with the subject's pose and sometime things can get ugly when the photographer and subject can't agree on the pose.

That is when you need to talk to your models and make them understand all you want to do is to get the best out of them. You are aiming for that special glow that only your model can show. Of course then you have to listen to their feedback and see what they want in their picture. It is their pictures after all.

When both of you are relax, look seriously at your subject. Look at their face and see what is so special about your subject. A good portrait photographer can see the character of a person from his or her face and know how to put the lighting to properly illuminate your model. Some said that you can even tell a person's story with portrait photography when you look hard enough.

Now, impressing your models with their portrait is easy when you can capture their pictures in a different perspective. Everyone is unique in their own way and looking at that, shouldn't everyone have their own special portrait? You can ask your model to look away from the camera and focus on his face. Or you can get your model to rest her head on her palm so that you can focus on her gaze. What you need to do here is to be creative and shoot out of the box.

Besides that, good portrait photographers can make do with the equipments they already have. It is true that you can get better picture when you have better equipments. But looking at the speed of the digital cameras being release to the market today, do you know how much money you need to invest to get all the equipments in your hand?

So, what you need to do is to zoom in to your model when you are practicing portrait photography because wide lens might make your model look "wide" and you will hard time explaining that to them.

Lastly, practice does make digital photography better. Seriously, have you ever fail to be better in things that you do over and over again? You might have spent a lot of time thinking of how you need to pose your model when you started this but once you have build the experience, you will know how to prep your model for the camera with just a single glance.

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Learn the Art of Great Family Portrait Photography

Family portrait photography has become more than just photographs of your family.

Many modern photographers now view portraits as a form of artistic expression. The feeling is that a well composed portrait can show the bond shared by the family, how they feel, and represent who they are.

Portraits are no longer just about smiling and staring into the camera. They can be both unique and creative.

Each family is different and an artistic family picture can express the individuality of each particular family's distinctive qualities and relationships. When the family members, and anyone else for that matter, look at a modern family portrait, it should be possible to have the power to invoke feelings and emotions much like fine art does.

Artistic portraits of a family can tell a story, and even one solitary image can induce profound emotional reactions, within that family. What makes an artistic portrait different from the older portraits?

Traditionally, family portraits were taken with everyone standing or sitting stiffly, in a uniform group, all looking straight at the camera. Now many artistic photographers have changed all that.

Composition, and consideration of the rules of composition such as the Rule of Thirds, is aimed to create something that is more than a snap or stiff conventional group.

Examples could be a couple who may stare lovingly into each others eyes, or portraits of a family, artistically composed, with a new baby which could have all the members gazing at the subject baby.

A dramatic effect could also be accomplished by having the family members looking in different directions and perhaps at different angles. Conventional family portrait photography featured the family grouped in the center of the frame but now the artistic appearance of a family off-center or asymmetrically arranged can add a special dimension, or depth to the image.

On a practical note, when composing your image try arranging your subjects in odd numbers if possible as odd numbers always work better than even numbers, with three the best number of all, of course.

You will see that posing three people in a triangle gives a very pleasing result.

If there are only two people try to avoid side-by-side pictures - have one slightly behind or ahead of the other.

Four people can be problem but you can stagger them i.e. as two people plus two people.

When you have more than four people, you can try to stagger them in a diagonal line.

Different angles can also introduce a new element to the portrait. Rather than the typical straight on shot, the photograph can be taken from an elevated position.

The photograph could also be shot from below, looking up at the family, or from the side or any number of other angles. These alterations in perspective can completely change the whole look and feel of the image. Colors, or lack of color can dramatically affect the appearance of the image as well.

For example, dramatic emphasis can be added to a photo by creating a black and white portrait. Black and white or sepia colored portraits can often stand out and appear more elegant. Art offers limitless possibilities for the enhancement of family portrait photography.

Your portrait should exhibit your family's individuality, and the right photograph will be both a record of your family and an artistic expression of who and what they are.

David Whittle has written articles on digital photography aimed at getting beginners and novices out there taking great shots as soon as possible.

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