Positioning your lights for headshot photography
Levi Sim
Positioning your lights for a headshot is really a very important part of making headshots. Generally speaking, you want to have a nice soft light on the front and if
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Photofocus Team
For any businessperson, it’s important to have a professional-looking portrait. Whether it’s for your LinkedIn profile or your company’s website, it’s important to know how best to use lighting and
Mind Your Own Business Podcast with Peter Hurley | Photofocus Podcast May 10, 2019
Chamira Young
Mind Your Own Business Podcast with Peter Hurley | Photofocus Podcast May 10, 2019 by Photofocus Welcome to Mind Your Own Business! Premier headshot photographer and education Peter Hurley joins
Portrait Tips: Teeth whitening in Lightroom (easy does it!)
Levi Sim
Teeth come in all shapes, sizes and colors. Your primary goal when retouching teeth should be to keep the teeth from distracting from the eyes. If teeth are very colorful,
Portrait Tips: Automation is your best friend, part one
Levi Sim
Last week I told you about my headshot factory. I’ve used this sort of setup to photograph as many as 300 people in one day. Unfortunately, that’s the easy part
Portrait Tips: Headshot factory
Levi Sim
One of my favorite things to do for corporate clients is to make headshots at their annual meetings. Their employees live all around the country, so this is the only
Portrait Tips: Retouch portraits in a batch
Levi Sim
Batch retouching is the holy grail of portrait finishing. You’ve shot a lot of good pictures you want to share, but you know your client will only buy a few.
Portrait Tips: How close should the light be to your subject?
Levi Sim
This is a great question, but when you’re getting going making portraits (and especially when you’re buying gear) it often gets overlooked. How close should your light be to your
My 4 favorite headshot portrait tips for men
Erin Holmstead
Gentlemen, before we get started I would like to just say, you are welcome. You are welcome for what I’m about to tell you. I know that you hate getting
Portrait Tips: Retouching must be invisible
Levi Sim
Retouching portraits. This is an important subject and I’ll tackle it with you in pieces. You’ve had a good session with your subject and now you can utilize your computer
Live Webinar: Perfecting Portrait Retouching with Kristina Sherk, Friday, October 19, 2018
Levi Sim
We’re excited to have world-class photographer and retoucher Kristina Sherk in this webinar to help you step up your retouching. She’ll help us understand the principles behind great retouching, tips
Portrait Tips: Use a lint roller for a higher paycheck
Levi Sim
If you’re like me, you easily get caught up in the moment of making a picture and you may forget some simple things. Fortunately for me, I recently had photographer
Portrait Tips: Beg, borrow or steal — whatever it takes to get catchlights
Levi Sim
We talk about posing and connecting with our subjects and all kinds of other stuff when we make portraits, but there’s one thing that matters more than that stuff and
Gear Review: Angler Collapsible Backdrop, 5×7′
Levi Sim
Collapsible backdrops are great for location shooting and small studios — even large studios use them for convenient and inexpensive options for backdrops. The video below shows the 5×7′ chroma key
Portrait Tips: The Critical Time
Levi Sim
Photographs extend one instant for eternity. That’s a long time and when you’re making a portrait that will last forever, the instant most critical to your success is when your
Portrait Tips: Cut the Rim Light
Levi Sim
Making portraits with a rim light is awesome. It gives depth and punch and when you do it really well you’ll notice that it looks more natural. Take a close
Portrait Tips: Crop the Top
Levi Sim
When you make a portrait, your aim should be for maximum impact. Emotion, lighting, and movement all lend impact to a picture, but the way you frame the photo also
Photography Marketing: Make Sure You Have a Headshot Too!
Bryan Esler
As photographers, we often put the focus on our client’s image, rather than our own. But having something as simple as a professional headshot shouldn’t be something we only recommend
Portrait Tips: Fix It Now, Not In Photoshop
Levi Sim
It’s important to keep a shoot moving along, keep your subjects engaged, and keep up appearances that you know what you’re doing, right? We all want to appear to be
Portrait Tips: Know Your Software
Levi Sim
Here’s a quick tip that will help you be more creative while shooting and manage details. You need to know your software tools at least as well as you know
Portrait Tips: Why You Shouldn’t Use Auto White Balance
Levi Sim
I should have followed this rule the other day. I photographed 50 people in a row and I need to finish all of those pictures for delivery. It’d be a