If you're like me, you probably shoot a lot of your portraits while handholding your camera. However, there is something to be said for tackling portraiture with a tripod-mounted camera - chief among them that it offers your camera a much more stable base for sharper photos. The question,...

Ashley Collins When people think of portrait photography, I think there's a tendency to think that it's a lot simpler than it actually is. I mean, besides needing to have the fundamentals of lighting, camera settings, and composition down pat, for a great portrait, you also need to understand how...

Best Lens For Portraits If you're ready to step up your photography game with a new portrait lens, you have a serious question to ask yourself... What's the best lens for portrait photography? There are certainly many contenders, but in Jessica Kobeissi's video below, a 35mm vs 50mm showdown...

One of the challenges of wedding photography is working with couples that might not be all that comfortable in front of the camera. And when that happens, you end up with portraits that look stuffy and stiff. In other words, if you don't take action to learn how to pose couples for wedding...

When you take someone's portrait, you obviously want to create gorgeous portrait photography, not something that will make the model want to hide the photo in their closet. That means learning how to take a portrait and minimizing mistakes that diminish the quality of your photos. In this quick...

When speaking with new parents, I've noticed that there's a common feeling that they aren't capable of taking great photos of their babies on their own. But this simply could not be further from the truth. In fact, you don't even need professional newborn photography equipment to create...

Eden Bao Photography I think we can all agree that the best lighting for portraits is natural light. But sometimes natural light needs a little bit of help... Whether that's using fill flash or a reflector to fill in shadows, positioning the model in the shade, or simply having the model rotate...

One of the great things about being a photographer these days is the incredible array of gear that's available to us. I mean, you can shoot with anything from your smartphone to a Canon 5D Mark IV to a Leica film camera and get great results. Likewise, you can use anything from a wide-angle to...