Backdrop: Blue Corrugated Steel If you've never used a strip box light for portraits, you're missing out... What's so great about strop box lighting is that it lights the model's entire body all at the same time with the same light. The result of that, as you can see above, is a gorgeously lit...

When I first started out in photography many years ago, I thought that portraiture would be easy. I was wrong! It’s not that creating a beautiful portrait is impossibly hard, but man, I was in for a shock when I realized how much is involved in creating the final look you see in gorgeous...

Photo by Marco_Piunti via iStock If you had your druthers, would you shoot portraits with an 85mm or a 135mm lens? Personally, I like the 85mm option, but I know plenty of photographers who would never take an 85mm over a 135mm for portrait photography. Of course, I know many other...

 Photo by Mel Elías on Unsplash I love a good portrait. Who doesn’t?  Of course, the hard part of taking a portrait is taking a good portrait. There are a lot of elements involved, and if one thing is off - be it the lighting, the posing, or the settings on your...

 Photo by A L L E F . V I N I C I U S Δ on Unsplash Portraits might seem straightforward - just aim your camera at a person, have them say cheese, and press the shutter button, right? Wrong… To get the most impactful portraits, you need to focus on composing a compelling image. You also...

How To Take Good Booty Pics? When you create photos with boudoir poses like the one above, one of the best types of light to give the model a rockin' booty is broad lighting. In other circumstances, broad lighting might be a little boring, but if it's the booty you're trying to...

 photo by CoffeeAndMilk via iStock Getting better at portrait photography requires a lot of time, practice, and patience. But that doesn’t mean that you have to spend hours every day practicing portraits… Instead, there are plenty of portrait photography techniques you can try -...

For our continuing series on portrait lighting, we've got Kat Armendariz, Kat on the Web, from hushXpose in Las Vegas to give us a better idea of what loop lighting is and how to create it. In the video below, Kat dives deep into the setup that's required to get the classic loop lighting look,...