Simple One Light Headshots
With a little experience, a basic one light headshot is something you can set up and shoot in a couple of quick minutes. Of course, if you’re on a job, you probably don’t want to tell the subject that or they might balk at the fees (and that’s why charging an hourly rate isn’t recommended [...]
Breaking The Rules
Most photographers are familiar with rules of thumb such as the rule of thirds and suggestions like “don’t cut people’s heads off”. For the most part, these are pretty good tips to follow. You should definitely have a grounding in and basic understanding of them, even if you don’t always abide by them. Before we [...]
Focus on the Eyes
Without a doubt the most common photographic subjects are people. Even those who trek for miles into remote territory in order to shoot landscapes will find themselves occasionally photographing other people, even if it’s only for fun at a party using a cellphone. In the past few years, with the boom in digital photography, that’s [...]
Off-Center Portraits
When photographing people one of the most difficult things is often knowing how to pose them and where to position them in the image. Many people make the mistake of placing the subject directly in the center of the frame, with a lot of excess space around the edges. This is best avoided – it [...]
Five For Friday – Emily in the Village
This week on 5 we look at some outdoor portraits. Emily is new to the modeling scene and we met up last week at the 4/4 South Village in Xinyi district, Taipei. This is a series of old style buildings that have been preserved in the heart of Taipei’s modern Xinyi district. They are a [...]
Sheri at Tai-Da
Taipei seems to be a popular destination for American models this summer. Fresh from the shoot with Jen a couple of weeks ago, I met up with Sheri. Hailing from New York and represented by Abrams Artists Agency, Sheri is in Taipei for a couple of months and we met up on a rainy Sunday [...]
5 For Friday – Faces
Fridays seem to be arriving quickly these days, or is that because working as a photographer means that TGIF doesn’t really apply to me. Whatever the answer, Friday means 5 and this week I have five photos of faces for you.
Tina in Taipei
I recently had the chance to shoot some portfolio photographs for a young Swedish model, Tina. Tina is a Masters student and is hoping to be able to make a little extra money over the summer as a model. To do that, she needed a portfolio, so we set a time and place and spent [...]
5 For Friday – Leslie @ Baguashan
Another week gone means it’s time for 5. Today’s 5 features Leslie, a young model from America that I worked with the other day. We went up to the ecological garden at Baguashan in Changhua and then moved over to the baseball field. This shoot was rescheduled 3 times due to wet weather so it [...]
Ten Tips For People Photography
More often than not, it’s the people you meet that make travel truly memorable. It’s also the photographs of people that usually get the best reaction from family and friends when you return home. So without further ado – 10 tips for better people photography. Bonus Intro Tip – Common to all genres of photography [...]
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