In my career as a photographer I’ve covered many genres from studio product photography, editorial, industrial, food photography, weddings, portraits, fine art, and travel – but through all of that, I’m primarily a people photographer. I like to photograph people.
Shoe repair man in Nicaragua – By Darlene Hildebrandt
Model at sunset – By Darlene Hildebrandt
Cuban beauties – By Darlene Hildebrandt
Whether it’s in a studio environment doing a posed portrait, a candid doing street photography, a shop owner or vendor in a foreign country – people are always interesting and challenging to photograph.
Weekly Photography Challenge – People
We’ve got lots of articles to help you as you go about photographing people this week in fact it’s our feature topic right now. You can see all the ones we’ve done so far this week below, and watch for more people photography articles over the next few days:
- How to Take Low Key Head-shots
- How to Do a One Light Portrait Setup and Use it as Your Back-up Plan
- Travel People Photography – Tips and Pitfalls
- 8 Tips for Photographing Men
- 24 Diverse Images That Showcase People Photography
Nicaraguan school kids – By Darlene Hildebrandt
Wedding fun – By Darlene Hildebrandt
Cuban dancers – By Darlene Hildebrandt
You can also check out our ebooks on people and portrait photography:
- Fast Flash for Portrait Perfection
- Portraits: Lighting the Shot
- Portraits: Making the Shot
- Portraits: Striking the Pose
- Kids Photography
So if you are not inclined to photograph people and this challenges makes you a bit nervous – maybe now is the time to get out of your comfort zone and just do it. I promise they won’t bite!
Share your images below:
Simply upload your shot into the comment field (look for the little camera icon in the Disqus comments section) and they’ll get embedded for us all to see or if you’d prefer upload them to your favourite photo sharing site and leave the link to them. Show me your best images in this week’s challenge. Sometimes it takes a while for an image to appear so be patient and try not to post the same image twice.
You can see some of mine here on this page – now it’s your turn to share, and show me your people photos.
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