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Photography: Advanced tips for taking great portraits shots
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Choose an area with good lighting and a neutral background.
Study your subject's face for unwanted shadows, glare, etc. Move them if you find any of these.
How you frame them is up to you, but most interesting portraits include the upper body from hands to face. (hands are extremely interesting, just think about Goya's portraits)
Do not get too close, this makes the subject uncomfortable.
Ask your subject to relax as you focus and frame the shot. Have a chatty conversation with them, asking them questions that will make them laugh, or think deeply.
Take numerous pictures, just keep taking them as you are talking, while they are talking, in between questions, constantly.
I promise this will return some interesting results. The human face is an amazing map of expression, and the ways you provoke it during the photo shoot will bring out new qualities to a person you may know very well.
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