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16 Inspirational Portrait Photography Techniques
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12-11-2007 7:51 AM
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I’m already getting bored with taking the standard cookie-cutter portrait, so I started digging around Flickr for some inspiration. Here’s what I turned up:</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.epicedits.com/2007/12/10/16-inspirational-portrait-photography-techniques/"><EM>And yes, I realize that the accompanying text is much shorter than I would usually supply, but the idea of this post isn’t to teach these techniques — it’s to introduce you to them and hopefully give you some inspiration with your own photography. I feel that these photos are strong enough to stand on their own without lengthy descriptions.</EM></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.epicedits.com/2007/12/10/16-inspirational-portrait-photography-techniques/"><P>If you’re good with post-processing and manipulations, use it to your advantage.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.epicedits.com/2007/12/10/16-inspirational-portrait-photography-techniques/"><H3>1. PHOTOSHOP</H3></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.epicedits.com/2007/12/10/16-inspirational-portrait-photography-techniques/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/blog.epicedits.com/img/26B99DA0-9988-4CE9-AD19-EEBBC0D26887" alt="147 of 365 - just dandy" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.epicedits.com/2007/12/10/16-inspirational-portrait-photography-techniques/"><H3>2. TEXTURE</H3></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.epicedits.com/2007/12/10/16-inspirational-portrait-photography-techniques/"><P>If texture is a big part of your subject, make it stand out and make it obvious.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.epicedits.com/2007/12/10/16-inspirational-portrait-photography-techniques/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/blog.epicedits.com/img/FD6240A1-150B-447A-98DD-7F3FA1D7846B" alt="Beautiful old lady from Darap(Sikkim) village" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.epicedits.com/2007/12/10/16-inspirational-portrait-photography-techniques/"><H3>3. OVEREXPOSE</H3></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.epicedits.com/2007/12/10/16-inspirational-portrait-photography-techniques/"><P>Blowing out the highlights makes a nice soft portrait with kind of a light airy feeling.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.epicedits.com/2007/12/10/16-inspirational-portrait-photography-techniques/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/blog.epicedits.com/img/87ECFB1B-671C-4B1F-9D7D-A350EB72BB40" alt="Fly" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.epicedits.com/2007/12/10/16-inspirational-portrait-photography-techniques/"><H3>4. UNDEREXPOSE</H3></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;"> </td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/C1A524F9-49F2-41F3-AEF2-3A14701FEA5D/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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