If you want to shoot portraits you need to know about light. Knowing about light is more than understanding the difference between hard light and soft light. It is about having the ability to work …
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Do you want to be able to take really good photos of people? Do you wish you could take portrait photos that both you and the person in the shot actually like? What is a good portrait photo …
What better way to spend a Sunday afternoon than a stroll along the Southbank with nothing better to do that take a few portraits. A recent 36exp client chose to do a 3 hour one to one photography …
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Two particularly nice portraits by Portrait Photography Workshop attendee, Felipe Krause. Created on our May Portrait Workshop in Hyde Park. We love the composition and pose of the first image, and …
Dan Kennedy was the perfect photographer to host our first shoot. He's a highly successful fashion, portrait and commercial photographer who' a really positive, enthusiastic person with loads of …
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February's portrait photography workshop was hosted at the super characterful Espero Studio near Brick Lane. Despite a few challenges finding the place, our intrepid photographers found out how shoot …
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Usually, working in the studio is about control. You're controlling the power of lights, fine tuning their position, composing the shot, directing the model. Your final image is all about your subject …
Discover the art of perfect location lighting, building a set and developing a concept to produce incredible location portraits with multi award winning advertising and fine art photographer Joe …
by Andrew Mason. Portrait photography is a fair bit more than asking your subject to say cheese and bouncing a little sunlight into your model's face. It's a set of skills that encompasses camera …
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Most of us don't live in a world where our subjects are perfectly made up and fed on a diet of wheatgrass and alpine mineral water to cultivate perfect skin. We do though have cameras and lenses which …
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The summer solstice brought us the longest possible day of cloud that the fabulous British weather could muster, plus a few showers, to notify us that we had reached mid-summer here in London. Models, …
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Mike Varey came along to two of our workshops in December - the Flash Photography Workshop and the Portrait Photography Workshop. It's a good combination of courses if you want to get a well …
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Three stunning images here by Graham Bunton, created on our October UK Portrait Photography Course. …
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Yet another creative and stunning portrait taken on the 20 Oct Portrait Photography Workshop in Hyde Park, central London. This is by Rob Pugh. A great composition gives us lots of impact and …
A selection of excellent photos by Jay Wilson, taken on our Flash Photography Workshop. An indoors portrait using bounce flash in TTL mode and camera in aperture priority. A nice soft light …
If you would like to cast a nice soft light on the hair of your subject simply use a softbox as a hairlight. This image, created by Reza Mahmood, on our Studio Lighting Course was created using two …
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The first ever 36exp Portrait Photography Workshop with Rossella Vanon took place in Hyde Park on Saturday 9th June. Thankfully the weather held out and participants shot some great images. The …
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Some simple portrait photography tips to improve your portrait photography skills: Focal length – Try to use a longer focal length, i.e. stand back and zoom in, this is more flattering. Above 50mm …
Discover the art of creating captivating male portraits and head-shots on our unique male portrait workshop. This workshop is an opportunity to learn techniques for shooting male portraits. You …
