{"id":577,"date":"2010-07-30T13:24:19","date_gmt":"2010-07-30T17:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stayfocusedpress.com\/blog\/?p=577"},"modified":"2022-07-30T07:19:03","modified_gmt":"2022-07-30T12:19:03","slug":"portrait-tip-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arnielee.com\/sfp\/?p=577","title":{"rendered":"Portrait Tip # 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Portraits are the most common type of photographs. We&#8217;d like to share some of our know-how for taking better people pictures.<\/p>\n<table border=\"1\" cellspacing=\"5\" cellpadding=\"5\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\" valign=\"top\"><strong>Lighting Tricks<\/strong><br \/>\nPortraits are usually composed using soft, even lighting. However, you can put strong and high contrast lighting to good use by carefully posing your subject.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"50%\" valign=\"top\">\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.arnielee.com\/sfp\/blog\/images\/portraits\/IMG_2181.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[577]\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.arnielee.com\/sfp\/blog\/images\/portraits\/IMG_2181s.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"225\"><\/a><\/center><br \/>\nThis photo was taken in the shade where the light was soft. This type of lighting made the young girl&#8217;s skin tones equally soft.<\/td>\n<td width=\"50%\" valign=\"top\">\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.arnielee.com\/sfp\/blog\/images\/portraits\/IMG_2176.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[577]\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.arnielee.com\/sfp\/blog\/images\/portraits\/IMG_2176s.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"222\"><\/a><\/center><br \/>\nHere, I&#8217;ve placed the subject in a location that has strong side lighting. I like the effect on the highlighted side of the face. Take care not to overexpose the highlights.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Portraits are the most common type of photographs. We&#8217;d like to share some of our know-how for taking better people pictures. Lighting Tricks Portraits are usually composed using soft, even lighting. However, you can put strong and high contrast lighting to good use by carefully posing your subject. This photo was taken in the shade [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,64,4],"tags":[65,609,608,597],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arnielee.com\/sfp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arnielee.com\/sfp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arnielee.com\/sfp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arnielee.com\/sfp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arnielee.com\/sfp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=577"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/arnielee.com\/sfp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11352,"href":"https:\/\/arnielee.com\/sfp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577\/revisions\/11352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arnielee.com\/sfp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arnielee.com\/sfp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arnielee.com\/sfp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}