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Commercial Portraiture with Luke Copping. Luke Copping is a portrait, beauty, and commercial photographer based in Buffalo, NY. He is also the Chapter President of ASMP Western New York www.asmp.org. We talk about his work and views on the industry. Subscribe to download our podcasts on iTunes. What we talk about: Where does Luke’s inspiration [...]
In areas with high concentrations of actors, dancers, and other performers, headshots are the bread and butter for many photographers. You can easily create a professional-looking studio portrait like the one shown here with minimal lighting. For this quick example, I placed a Canon 580 EX II on a stand high and to the camera-left [...]
Lou Noble, a portrait photographer in Los Angeles, joins me to discuss moving (video) portraits. Subscribe to download our podcasts on iTunes. What we talk about: How does the length of a video portrait affect it? The applications of video portraits (advertising, digital frames) Relating to the subject, video vs. still Is video more honest [...]
Every time I’m out in the streets, I would often encounter faces that make me look twice… faces that just stood out of the crowd without even trying… faces that are by no means ordinary. They range from the exquisitely beautiful to the strangely wonderful. Sometimes I would try to steal a shot without being [...]
James asks: “In shooting models what are the ‘rules’ on cropping, what poses require or permit cropping at certain points as in arms, legs and other places?” This is a pretty common question for photographers, especially as they start to look at what their doing with a more critical eye. Just as with composition, there [...]
The Photography Class series covers the basics of photography. This series is intended primarily for beginners and students. This is the third post in the series. Hand-held light meters are not relied on as much as they used to be. Digital photography and the LCD preview monitor on most cameras has made it easy to [...]
I recently received a request for feedback from a photographer who has been applying some of my lighting techniques to his portraiture. He explained that learning the techniques had finally given him the confidence he needed to work with a model for the first time. And while I was impressed with his use of the [...]
