Fashion Photography
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Whether it's a fashion or wedding photoshoot, portrait lighting and posing can take your photos from okay to great. Professional photographer Roberto Valenzuela takes you behind the scenes to his portrait photography lighting and posing process. You'll learn how to pose and light women and men, from professional models to wedding parties, from in studio to on location.
What are some of your own tips for posing and lighting portraits? Share them with us in the Comments area, below.
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Learn fashion photography techniques in this webinar. Editorial, lifestyle, and fashion photographer/Director and Nikon Ambassador Dixie Dixon discusses her creative process, gear, posing, and lighting tips. She also covers the camera settings she typically uses, such as the ideal aperture for fashion photography.
Questions? Post them in the Comments section, below.
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Using fast prime lenses to create razor-sharp portraits where the focus melts away like butter can be an addictive (and costly) pastime. The jump from an 85mm f/1.8 to an 85mm f/1.4 may seem minor on paper, but anyone who has used both lenses knows that the difference extends well beyond a few decimal points. This article is an homage to the top-tier primes designed for the most demanding portrait photographers. Hide your wallet before proceeding.
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Watch enough online tutorials or read enough marketing copy and you might be convinced that a successful portrait requires cranking the aperture of your lens to its widest setting. While the “wide-open” approach to portraiture is far from new, its usage has surged in recent years, leading to a surplus of photos flaunting extremely shallow depth of field. As polarizing as it is popular, whether this phenomenon is viewed as a scourge or a blessing depends on the audience. Plenty of striking portraits have been made using this technique but, like
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This is one of the most enjoyable chats on photography we’ve had in a while, and our subject is the history of amateur and popular photography as understood through photography how-to books and manuals. Joining us on the B&H Photography Podcast is Dr. Kim Beil, professor at Stanford University and author of Good Pictures: The History of Popular Photography, and with Professor Beil we not
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New York City-based fashion and beauty photographer Lara Jade shares her fashion photography tips on topics such as finding subjects to photograph and marketing yourself, and talks about the difference between editorial and commercial photography.
Are you new to the world of fashion and beauty photography, or a seasoned pro? Share your thoughts about this video, along with your own tips, in the Comments section, below!
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On this week’s episode of the B&H Photography Podcast, we welcome Margit Erb and Michael Parillo, of the Saul Leiter Foundation, to discuss Saul Leiter’s career and their work preserving the art and the legacy of this pioneer of color photography.
Born and raised in Pittsburgh, Leiter veered from the traditional religious path his parents desired for him and moved to New York City to follow his own calling. Met with early success in
On March 20th, Nintendo released Animal Crossing: New Horizons, the latest installment of its popular life-simulation series. In six short weeks, the game has already sold more than 13 million copies, making ACNH one of the strongest game debuts ever for the Nintendo Switch, and putting it on track to becoming one of the top-selling Switch titles of all time.
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Photography is necessary and undying, it is the ultimate way for a story to be told.
—Jo Bailon, portrait and fashion photographer
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On this week’s episode of the B&H Photography Podcast, we welcome editorial, fashion, art, and music photographer Olivia Bee. That’s a lot of tags and she’s earned them all in a relatively short time span. Her “origin story” is well-documented in photo circles, so we won’t go into that much, but in a career now a decade old, we discuss where those early successes have brought her, what she enjoys about photography, and what she is
Four years ago, we were assigned the task of starting an audio podcast about photography. Such a project had never been attempted at B&H, and there came the normal challenges associated with starting something new. We persisted through the first six months and, now, 200 weekly episodes later, we have built a program with thousands of subscribers and have even topped the iTunes/Apple Podcasts Visual Arts chart a few times. Allan, Jason, and I (along with the help of many members of the B&H Explora team) love creating the podcast and it
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Photographer Stacie Yue captured Fashion Week 2019, in New York City, and took some time to give us seven of her tips for capturing street-style photos. Yue covers working with your camera settings, working with talent, and even where you should be to get the best shots. Be sure to check out our other videos at BandH.com, where you can learn more about photography.
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Jeff Rojas is back in the B&H Event Space! He's kicking off 2019 with the fundamentals of the business of fashion photography. He’ll guide you through the core essentials of how to break into shooting fashion, and he’ll introduce three lighting setups you can use to kick off your career.
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Photography is my safe space.
— Alan-Michael Duval, fashion photographer
Photograph by © Cory Rice
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On this week’s episode of the B&H Photography Podcast, we welcome photographer Michael Sanders and model Jayne Moore to discuss the collaborative process between model and photographer on a fashion shoot. From “go-sees” and casting via Instagram, to the rhythm of a shoot, working with on-set teams, lighting insights, and the dos and don'ts of professional interaction, we discuss the P.O.V. from both sides of the lens. The thread that runs through our conversation, though, is how a