Sixties Fashion Photography

Sixties fashion photography embraced the bubbling dynamism of the era. Instead of simply capturing beautiful women standing still as mannequins in lovely clothes, fashion photographers of the sixties showed the modern woman living an independent life. Fashion models stepped out of the studio and into the streets of Paris and Rome, and editors began showing images of women pausing outside a cafe to listen to a street musician, or throwing her head...

How to Email a Photography Portfolio

When you finally start to get serious jobs as a professional photographer, agents, editors and clients are going to want you to email your portfolio to them. If you are like most photographers, your portfolio is in high resolution and takes up huge quantities of memory, so emailing a portfolio is not necessarily an easy task. It's never a good idea to send a full-resolution copy of your book unless you have a very specific and good reason to do so...

How to Use a Nikon SB800 Flash for Outdoor Fill Flash

Shooting photographs outdoors often results with subjects that have dark shadows on their faces and even under the eyes. Camera-mounted flashes tend to get used primarily indoors, not outdoors. But by using just enough flash to eliminate the shadows, the photographer will end up with a picture where the subject and the background are evenly lit. Nikon's SB-800 flash is a powerful unit that is capable of handling most situations that a photographer...

Bird's Eye View Definition

A bird's-eye view is an image gained when the position of the observer is significantly higher than that of the subject. Looking down upon a subject can be achieved in a number of ways and may serve several different purposes. For filmmakers and photographers, bird's-eye views are a way to add interest to a shot or relate important information about the subject. Terminology While some glossaries refer to a bird's-eye view as any point-of-view...

The Lighting Techniques for the Portrait Photographer

Photography is not just pointing a camera at something and snapping a picture. Its also about mastering the tools of the trade. Painters mix colors together to create different textures and effects in their paintings. Filmmakers test different lenses. The most powerful tool for a photographer is his lighting equipment. Lighting adds drama, softness, coldness, and casts shadows to create emotions. Bad lighting techniques produce unflattering portraits....