Good tips for better portrait photography

anonymouscuban

I came across this site while searching for tips on portrait photography. Although I've read many of the tips on different websites, I found this to be a nice summary of all of them, along with easy to see examples on one site. I thought I share since I am sure there are others that would find this info as useful as I did.

http://www.lumitouch.com/benstudiotutorial/LightPoseGuideRules.html

I also found this site that has a nice set of images illustrating different poses:

http://www.herrickphoto.co.uk/poses.html

Here is another site I found that has a lot of useful information on lighting...

Portrait Lighting set-ups

Portrait Photography Lighting - Light ratios

Distance of the main light

Hope this is helpful.

Alex

pathfinder

Very nice links Alex.

anonymouscuban

Thanks. I've been reading like mad as of late. I have a few more bookmarked on my home puter and will update my OP with those tonight.

Save the next person some time in researching this stuff.

adbsgicom

Thanks!!!

Don't forget you've promised some Cuban preparation shots for the mini.....

Jwar

thanks for the links.

i really like the poses site, this should be really helpful
I've seen the other ones but decided to bookmark them this time.

kdog

It's amazing how many poses here: http://www.herrickphoto.co.uk/poses.html, violate the guidelines given here: http://www.lumitouch.com/benstudiotutorial/LightPoseGuideRules.html.

Some examples are "feminine poses" on the guy (head tilts towards shoulders) and back-of-hands showing on many gal poses. Just goes to show ya...

All in all, fun links though.

-joel

anonymouscuban

kdog wrote:

It's amazing how many poses here: http://www.herrickphoto.co.uk/poses.html, violate the guidelines given here: http://www.lumitouch.com/benstudiotutorial/LightPoseGuideRules.html.

Some examples are "feminine poses" on the guy (head tilts towards shoulders) and back-of-hands showing on many gal poses. Just goes to show ya...

All in all, fun links though.

-joel

I did notice that Joel. Since I started reading all this portrait stuff, I've been really conscious of certain rules and guidelines when viewing photos and I notice a lot of these rules being broken. I guess they are really guidelines more than anything else. After all, photography is an art and art is subject to the artists style and creative interpretation. Can't be too creative if your stuck in a rigid box of rules.

divamum

Some great links, Alex. Here's another site with posing examples http://polisphotography.com/Documents/Imagesforweb/posing.pdf

There's a sticky of links in the People forum, too - some good stuff there!