{"id":587,"date":"2010-09-02T07:59:15","date_gmt":"2010-09-02T11:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stayfocusedpress.com\/blog\/?p=587"},"modified":"2022-07-30T07:18:15","modified_gmt":"2022-07-30T12:18:15","slug":"portrait-tip-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arnielee.com\/sfp\/?p=587","title":{"rendered":"Portrait Tip #2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Portraits are one the most common type of photographs. We\u2019d like to share some tips 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>Direction of the Light<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Shooting people outdoors offers a wide variety of lighting. Observe and take advantage of the direction from which it is falling on your subject.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"50%\">\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.arnielee.com\/sfp\/blog\/images\/portraits\/IMG_2157-s450.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[587]\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.arnielee.com\/sfp\/blog\/images\/portraits\/IMG_2157-s150.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"225\"><\/a><\/center><br \/>\nHere the lighting originates predominantly from behind the subject. This backlighting produces shadows on much of the girl&#8217;s face.<\/td>\n<td width=\"50%\">\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.arnielee.com\/sfp\/blog\/images\/portraits\/IMG_2163-s450.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[587]\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.arnielee.com\/sfp\/blog\/images\/portraits\/IMG_2163-s150.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"225\"><\/a><\/center><br \/>\nFor this shot, we turned the subject slightly so that the light is coming from the side. By doing this, we have added a more &#8220;rounded&#8221; and fuller look to the facial features.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Portraits are one the most common type of photographs. We\u2019d like to share some tips for taking better people pictures. Direction of the Light Shooting people outdoors offers a wide variety of lighting. Observe and take advantage of the direction from which it is falling on your subject. Here the lighting originates predominantly from behind [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,64,63,4],"tags":[65,609,73,608,597],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arnielee.com\/sfp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587"}],"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=587"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/arnielee.com\/sfp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11350,"href":"https:\/\/arnielee.com\/sfp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587\/revisions\/11350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arnielee.com\/sfp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arnielee.com\/sfp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arnielee.com\/sfp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}