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Fifteen things you need for a great senior portrait - #8 - Vibrant Color - Part 2
Last week we discussed in some great detail the first aspects of using color in senior photography to make it better. This week we will continue that discussion with more tips and ideas about how you use color in the aspect of processing your images....
Fifteen things you need for a great senior portrait - #8 - Vibrant Color - Part 1
I have photographed older people and one thing that many of them have in common is that when I show them portraits of themselves in black and white, they’re not so crazy about them. To paraphrase, I hear comments like, “I spent half my life g...
Spotlight interview with Teddy Madison from Exodus Photography
Recently while on flickr, I noticed a shot of young child called “$ on my chest“. I instantly fav’d it. It was so creative and cool. Something fresh that you don’t see everyday. What I mean is that it was something that I don&...
Fifteen things you need for a great senior portrait - #7 - Location - Part 2
As those of you who have been following our series on “Fifteen things you need for a great senior portrait”, know that we’ve been in length discussing what it takes to get senior portraits that will amaze your customers. Last week, we discu...
Fifteen things you need for a great senior portrait - #7 - Location - Part 1
In an earlier post, in this same series, I mentioned the scenario where you have a portrait of a senior leaning against a tree. Boring. Right? Yeah, it’s boring and it’s been done too many times. In this post, I will mainly discuss locati...
Fifteen things you need for a great senior portrait - #5 - Good Clothing
What I see in today’s dress usually falls within two camps. The first being very concerned with their looks that ranges from concerned to ultra vain. The second is the teen that doesn’t care a thing about the way they look. Often these ki...
Fifteen things you need for a great senior portrait - #4 - Excellent Technicals
This is one of those things that should go without saying but it needs to be said because of the fact that without it, there are not good portraits. Without the fundamentals of good technical work, there is no room or way you can have beautiful, arti...
Fifteen things you need for a great senior portrait - #3 - Good Pose
Imagine for a minute with me. An older teen boy or girl leaning on a tree or perhaps hugging the tree and peeking around from behind and smiling at the camera with a big happy grin on their face. We have all seen this, haven’t we? Tell me if ...
Fifteen things you need for a great senior portrait - #2 - Great Expression
Today on our series, “Fifteen things you need for a great senior portrait”, we are discussing point #2, Great Expression. As you probably know, we are featuring this series every Wednesday. With that, let’s get started! For most ph...
Fifteen things you need for a great senior portrait - #1 - Good Subject
This may seem strange for me to list that the first thing you need is a good subject, because of the fact that we’re not talking about fashion models or paid models, but we’re talking about customers who are paying you to photograph them ...
Fifteen things you need for a great senior portrait
By request, (by Georgia) we have a fairly lengthy fifteen part article article series on senior portraiture. It will explain how to keep the portrait simple yet powerful. The series will be spread out over fifteen different weekly posts. We will p...
