9 of my favourite tips for taking better portraits photos.
Topics covered:
1. Trust your gut feelings
2. Make the eyes your focus
3. The background
4. Lighting
5. Posing your subject
6. Learn to not care
7. Best portrait lenses — which lens to choose
8. Know the law
9. Taking your time
I was inspired to make this after reading ‘Read This If You Want to Take Great Photographs of People’ by Henry Carroll. This is a great book and I highly recommend it. Buy it here:
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Thanks mate, exactly what I was looking for
Thank you. Great tips.
I like the idea of them looking away and back at you to get the candid shot, initially.
Really a good Prof!
Thank you so much Jamie this was very helpful!
You know in Perù they can also sue you 🙂
wtf what eyes lens you`re using ?
Greatest video ever filmed.
Richard Dawkins!
In college, in Columbia, Missouri, USA, I was taught that we are "MAKING" a photograph, rather than "taking" a photograph. This is the basic message you have been giving in your channel so far. I would recommend that you begin changing your wording of what you are saying to reflect this… I reflected on the difference, and it makes a big difference to the better in my own work.
I LOVE your videos. So so helpful. Thanks for your insights.
great tips – thanks for sharing – subscribed!
I know this is an old video… But I am going through all your YouTube videos and I really like what you have to say.
It’s not the usually “do this” don’t do that” etc. It’s a much deeper discussion and I really enjoy it. It makes me think and gets my creativity going.
Thank you!
12:27 best shutter sound I have ever heard 😂
I took shots of a person who just got arrested (with handcuffs on him) for selling drugs, but the
, I had to cancel it because a guy approached me and complained. It might help to say that the men who approached me was black as well as the man that got arrested. I know this is an issue in the black community, however, I was just trying to portray a story there..
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Was that Dawkins!?!
Great information that will certainly help me improve my street images. Thanks
I am a fashion photographer but your video inspires me to go out to take some street photos! Thank you for all your tips.
Sorry Jamie – I am having trouble with your ring light on this video…it gives you alien eyes…
Another helpful list of do's & don't Cheers J
5:16, why you spitting on me. 👀
Wonderful to watch once again. Thank you
So many gems here! Thank you so much!
very helpful video ! thanks alot for your tips
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Brilliant as usual. . Ty Jamie
A Friend of mine must watch this, specially TIP#8
Cause he likes taking photos of MINORS as his Subject/Muse/Models
Great tips, Jamie!
as beginner, i didn't know taking random child photo for street photography is kinda dangerous..i would've asked for the parent's permission next time, but it will not look natural if the parent starts posing around lol
I truly dislike the effect used in the bg music where the rest goes to complete silence. I've always hated it. If the point is to create the feeling that something is broken, interruptive, disjointed, disquieting then, yeah, it works. But, as a cool chill jazz feel, it's like ring lights that make your eyes look alien.
in the US police may never ever delete your photos without a court order – ever. It's evidence tampering.
Great stuff as usual.
Just to clarify, the police cannot delete images or demand that you do it without a specific court order relating to you and to the particular incident.
This was so so helpful
Basic technical knowledge is required to create an image, creatively or artistic photographs!
Understanding the Exposure Triangle is not just to know how to get a " Correct " exposure but how an image is created in the camera.
Trusting your gut is great for Photographers who know the rules " nothing is set in stone " and the Exposure Triangle! If you are a new photographer just going by your gut is not the best advice. You got to know the rules to break the rules.
These 9 tips are not for a commercial sense! They are for Creatively, Artistic, Journalist and or Street Photography.
Most of the time you want to make a portrait of a person to look there best.
Ok, number two I don't 100% agree. Make the eyes your focus is not 100% right because of a portrait can even be the back of someone's head without a face. That is a rule or a recommendation of a Portrait photograph.
Depending on the feel you want to portray a fill flash with ambient light can be a good thing just got to know how to use flash not to overpower the ambient light! Gray area or creative Choice!
Know the law 100% agree! As to Street Photography have a copy of the law with you to show the police who many don't know the law. Same with private security. ( if you are in a public area not on a privately owned area) Know your rights as a photographer because sometimes they don't know!
Just like certain places ( street or sidewalk also ) A permit or a workaround can let you set up a tripod and some places will not! But using a Monopod in places that don't allow a tripod Also you might get away with a Gorillapod just depends.
Celebrities on the street are still ok to photograph in my area or the USA! How do you think paparazzi photographers get paid to photograph celebrities a lot of times at their worst moments ( Not saying you should take them at their worst )! Now if I am lucky to see them in public I would take their picture.
That might have been one of the most practical lessons/lists on photography I have yet to come across on YouTube. Thanks for taking the time.
😃richard dawkins! Great photo of him! Your amazing and i love watching your videos😊👍🏻
First Tip: never use a ring light for close up portraits. 🙂