Portrait Photography – Part I (Video Tutorial)

The next 3 tutorials in photo.net’s Video Tutorial Series focus on the basics of Portrait Photography. This week’s video discusses the ideal equipment, composition considerations, and location settings for portraits.
Be sure to come back next week for Part II, covering timing, posing, and cropping, and the week after for a 3rd tutorial on editing and fixing your portraits in Lightroom.
You might have missed these previous videos:
Basic Photography Tutorials:
1. Intro to Manual Photography
Lightroom Video Tutorials:
2. Digital Photography Developing
3. Introduction to Lightroom Tabs: Library
4. Introduction to Lightroom: Importing Images
5. Introduction to Lightroom Tabs: Develop
6. Introduction to Lightroom: Exporting Images
7. Basic Image Development in Lightroom: General Edits
8. Basic Image Development in Lightroom: Color Editing
9. Basic Image Development in Lightroom: Special Tools
10. Creating a Lightroom Slideshow
11. Basic Printing with Lightroom
12. Advanced Printing with Lightroom
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