8 More tips to improve your portraits

1) Contrast clothes and location If your sitter is wearing blue, don't put them against a blue background.

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Model of the Day: 31/05/2026 - Carla Monaco

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Model of the Day: 30/05/2026 - Ivory Flame

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Critique for Andrew L

Good set Andrew, comments are below each image. I like the way you've de-saturdated this image and the crop works well.

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Fashion Photo with Faith Obae: Photographs Deconstructed (video)

"Images Deconstructed" - a short YouTube video discussion of an image.

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Grids in images

THINKING: When shooting against a strongly defined background like a grid you need to decide how it will feature in your image.

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Critique for Michael S

Every attendeed to our workshops can have images reviewed - these are Michael's images from a natural light and studio workshop.

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Model of the Day: 29/05/2026 - Niki Marie

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Canon 5D MkII - Yellow cast to LCD display

Just for the benefit of anyone else who might have the same problem. Just had a camera back from repair to the battery case and when I fired it up there was a really strong Yellow Cast to the LCD display on the back of the camera.

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Model of the Day: 14/06/2021 - Niki Marie