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CORRECTIVE LIGHTING FOR BOUDOIR PHOTOGRAPHY
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Corrective Lighting for Boudoir Photography

Corrective lighting can really set your portrait photography apart from other photographers and make your clients fall in love with the way they look.

As a portrait photographer, in general, you need to know how to use corrective posing techniques to make your clients look their best on camera.

in this photography tutorial video, I show you a step-by-step process to using lighting and posing techniques to make your clients look their best. These techniques are perfect for in-studio portraits.

In this video, Im using the Westcott L60Bs with various light modifiers , but you can use whatever lighting you have.

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08/31/2023
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Long Exposure Portraits Using Rear Curtain Sync

In this lighting portrait tutorial, we play with long exposures using rear curtain sync. This helps to achieve a unique fashion portrait style for your images. I’ll show you how we did this and what off camera flash lighting we used.

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08/30/2023
USE COMPOSITION TO CREATE BETTER PHOTOGRAPHY PORTRAITS // PHOTOGRAPHY HOW-TO
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Use Composition to Create Better Photography Portraits // Photography How-To

When it comes to photography there is more to it than just releasing the shutter. You have to learn how to use the elements around you to create a more interesting and more compelling portrait.

In this photography tutorial, I will cover how to use composition to make your fashion, beauty, and other types of photography more interesting by framing your subject in various ways.

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08/30/2023
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Westcott Pro Light Mods Hollywood Glam Portraits

On this particular photoshoot, I used the perfect photography lighting kit to create a glam Hollywood style portrait. In addition, we added some canned aerosol to the shoot to create a little more texture in the background, and I used gelled photography and lighting to add to the mood of the shot.

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08/22/2023
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Is f1.2 better than f11 for portraits?

As a portrait photographer, every choice we make has an impact on the final image. In this photography training tutorial, we show the differences between shooting at f1.2 and f8/f11 and the impact it will have on your final portraits.

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08/22/2023
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Edgy Fashion Photography Using Continuous Lights

Are you ready for some edgy fashion portraits using continuous lights from nanlite? Im using 3 of the PavoTube II 6C’s, perfect for in-studio photography and for location work out of the studio. This video is the perfect photography tutorial where you will see where I place the lights and how we use them to create more dynamic portraits.

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08/01/2023

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Photography training and education for the modern photographer

In today’s competitive landscape, quality online photography training and education is priceless to your growth. Unfortunately, most publications contain a ton of fluff. No real meat to their content. Not at Behind the Shutter. We are committed to the photography community and improving professional photography by providing current, insightful, and in-depth educational content.

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