Video: Beautiful dog portraits with natural and studio light

In response to multiple requests from MasteringPortraitPhotography.com subscribers, we’ve created a video showing you how Paul captures his famous dog portraits. Paul’s expertise in canine photography stems from his ten years’ experience as lead photographer for the charity Hearing Dogs for Deaf People. In this role, Paul has taken hundreds of thousands of images of puppies and older dogs, as each of the charity’s hearing animals passes through the charity’s training process. JOIN NOW to view this and hundreds of articles, videos, …

Foundations: Focusing, Making The Right Thing Sharp

In the majority of portraiture, the subject’s eyes are the main focus of the shot, and it’s therefore important to ensure they are sharp, especially when using a wide aperture. By default, your camera’s autofocus system will usually focus on whatever is in the centre of the frame, or closest to the camera. As a result, when your subject is positioned off-centre or behind foreground elements, you will end up with a blurred subject if you rely on the default …