Portrait Photography’s Power Posing - Part II: The Poses

DPS posted the sequel to Portrait Photography’s Power Posing Part I: The Components that I blogged about a little over a week ago.

The post talks about three power poses and how to achieve them:

1. Standing Tall: Give an air of confident ability and self-assurance.
2. Casual Seated: Express an easygoing attitude
3. The Wall Chill: Describes natural and casual expression

Check out the Portrait Photography’s Power Posing - Part II: The Poses post by Christina Nichole over at the DPS blog!

Tags: chirstina nichole, DPS, Portrait, posing

Maternity shoot

As if I wasn’t busy enough! My sister-in-law came in from out of town for the night so we did a quick shoot. The image below is my favorite of the night I think, I just can’t decide between the three color variations I did.

All in all, I’m pleased with the processed results, have a few more to go through yet but first I have to finish this wedding processing! She was super pleased as well, and one of her friends already wants me to do her maternity shoot and another of her friends wants to talk about family portraits. Looks like things might be getting underway… now to get real studio lighting - believe it or not this was just lit with a 430EX Speedlight on camera.

Tags: Maternity, Portrait, pregnant, processed

Strobist: Lighting 101

Good set of articles over at Strobist.com with regards to off camera flash use and lighting…

Been having fun with the 430EX I picked up for the wedding shoot just over a week from now… been learning a lot as well! The image above I actually used the pivot features on the Speedlight and bounce it off the wall slightly up and pretty much right behind me… definitely makes a difference over the on-camera and straight on flash.

Tags: 430ex, bounce, external, flash, light, lighting, photography, Portrait, self-portrait, strobist, Tips, Tutorials

Dr. Draw

Some of you may recall my post from a couple weeks ago about the opportunity I had to shoot Dr. Draw while they performed at The Works Art & Design Festival here in town. I’ve been talking to their manager and will be sending a CD of some of the shots for them to include in the gallery on their main site.

Much to my delight, I noticed a new comment on one of the images I took at the show.

The comment came from Eugene Draw himself:

I love this photo…
I would love to post it as the profile pic on the Dr. Draw myspace page actually all of the photos look just amazing….
you are truly a real deal photographer
e

Thanks for the comment Eugene, glad you liked the shot and hope to see it gracing your myspace page soon! I’ll chalk this one up to the published column…

Tags: B&W, Black & White, black and white, dr. draw, festival, musician, performance, performer, Portrait, Published, the works, the works art & design festival

10 More Tips for Stunning Portrait Photography

To follow up the 10 Ways to Take Stunning Portraits post from the other day, DPS has posted 10 more tips:

11. Frame your subject
12. Go with a wide angle
13. Play with backgrounds
14. Change the format framing
15. Hold your camera on an angle
16. Take unfocused shots
17. Introduce movement
18. Experiment with subject expressions
19. Fill the frame
20. Find an interesting subject

Seems I’ve managed a couple of these in past self-portraits, good tips for the future!

Check out the 10 More Tips for Stunning Portrait Photography for more details!

Tags: DPS, Portrait, self-portrait, Tips

Pre-wedding shoot

Met up with Ashley and Matty to scout a possible location to take their wedding photos after the ceremony. While we were there we took a few shots - both for practice and to use on some Moo cards for the wedding.

The location was great, lots of green, a couple water spots - now we just need to make sure it’s sunny that day!

Any and all critique, comments, suggestions at this point would be most welcome of course!

Be sure to check out the rest of the set.

Tags: ashley, couple, engaged, engagement, matty, Portrait, wedding

5 Quick Tips to Keep You Motivated

Short little piece over at the Digital Photography School blog… as photographers we all get into funks or feel unmotivated from time to time… here’s 5 quick tips to keep you motivated!

1. Go for a walk
2. 5 in a half (take 5 photos in half a mile or kilometre)
3. Check past DPS articles
4. Be random on Flickr
5. Fill in the blank - what do you do?

As for number 5, I find that playing with other peoples photos helps get things cracking again. Below is a photo that I modified for the Stop, Collaborate and Listen. group on Flickr.

Check out the original 5 Quick Tips to Keep You Motivated post over at DPS.

Tags: bca, bigcrustyape, collaborate and listen, digital photography school, DPS, motivation, Portrait, scl, stop, Tips

If You Put That Picture On The Internet I’ll Call My Lawyer

Saw this image via Thomas Hawk on Flickr.

Photo taken by Jeremy Brooks
Uploaded to Flickr by Thomas Hawk

Seems his friend Jeremy Brooks, had a minor run in with this guy while out shooting some photos.

However, Mr. Angry Overreaction Man decided that he now had a problem with me. He confronted me, demanding my camera. Of course, I refused. He got in my face and started threatening me, telling me that I cannot take his photo without his permission. I told him that yes, in fact, I can. He then walked up and bumped into me, trying to act tough. I told him that one more touch and I would call the police.

As I mentioned on Thomas’ photostream, it is well within our rights to photography in public places (unless you live in Quebec)… ask me nice and I’ll be inclined not to post it - or send me a cordial e-mail if you see an image of you that I’ve taken and I’ll likely remove it at your request - be a jerk or worse and it’s going to go up for sure.

Check out Jeremy’s accounting of the incident on his blog.

Digg Jeremy’s original blog post.

Tags: anger, flickr, jeremy hall, photographer, Portrait, rights, thomas hawk

pagan - flickr Fave of the Day

Been a bit slack lately when it comes to posting a Fave of the Day… here’s todays… daneli has such great skills with Photoshop and her post production work on her images… outstanding!

pagan, originally uploaded by daneli.

Tags: daneli, flickr Fave of the day, photoshop, Portrait

Give Kids of Angola a chance! - flickr Fave of the Day

I just love this shot, great colors, great pose and expression.

Give Kids of Angola a chance!, originally uploaded by Kool2bBop.

Tags: child, flickr Fave of the day, Kool2bBop, Portrait