Portrait Photography

Wikipedia define portrait photography as "photography of a person or group of people that displays the expression, personality, and mood of the subject. Like other types of portraiture, the focus of the photograph is usually the person's face, although the entire body and the background or context may be included."

Portrait photography can be done outdoors or indoors and they both require lighting be it ambient or flash. But for me, if you want to make great photos, then you should use both ambient and flash. Let me show you a creative portrait photography using both lighting.

The picture above is taken outdoor at a lake in Pengkalan Hulu. Lightings are from ambient (the sun) and 1 bare flash. I reduced the ambient lights and the flash lit my subject from behind thus creating the silhouette on the umbrella.

Here is another example:

In this setup, I used the sun (dimmed of course), 1 flash with umbrella on camera left and 1 flash on camera right to light the shrubs.

Oh... if you ever want your portrait taken by me, or any other kind of photography, please do not hesitate to contact me @ hizer1970@gmail.com