Portrait photography is a popular but challenging genre, as it requires good technical skills with your camera and lighting, the ability to pose people and make them feel comfortable, and solid capabilities when it comes time to edit the image. If you are new to the genre and looking to improve, check out this helpful video tutorial that offers seven tips sure to put you on the right track.
Coming to you from Koldunov Brothers, this great video tutorial offers seven tips for getting started as a portrait photographer. If I could give one piece of advice to new portrait photographers, it would be to err on the side of doing less when it comes time to edit. It is extremely common for new photographers to have too heavy a hand when editing their images, and when it comes to portraits, this can result in your subjects looking unnatural or even plastic. As you continue to practice, you will build up a finer sense of how far to push edits. Check out the video above for the full rundown.
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