category: Portrait Photography

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How I Took This: Family Portraiture

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  •   A Beginners Guide to High Key Portraiture I don’t know about you? But the whole getting-to-together, family thing at Christmas fills me with absolute horror. Being the eldest of four siblings and the ‘intellectual graveyard’ of the family, I have very little in common with my two brothers and one sister, and now two of them have children, I can see even less reason to spend time with them. If we do have to get together; by far the…

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How to Approach Strangers & Get Great Travel Portraits

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  • Hire an Interpreter If you are travelling to a country and can’t speak the language, or even if you can, I would still recommend hiring a guide or interpreter. You will often get better cooperation from the locals, when they are asked if they will pose for a photograph by someone they trust. You are also giving employment to the local population and in addition, a guide will deter begging and stop you being unduly pestered. Make sure your guide…

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