Different face shapes benefit from different lighting patterns. Read on to find out how to slim down a wide face or fill out a narrow one by changing just small thing – the angle of your subject’s nose relative to your main light. According to the people who measure these things, there are seven basic face shapes: oval, round, square, diamond, heart, pear and oblong. For our purposes, however, we’ll use a shape sorter with just two categories. The first …
Foundations: Angle and Viewpoint
Positioning your subject in a location is only one part of the puzzle – even in a studio environment, you need to consider where you will be positioned, as the photographer, and whether you will be holding the camera level or angled towards your subject. Even the choice of whether you stand or crouch can have a huge impact on the composition and connotations of the final shot. If you always take every photograph at the same angle, you will …