{"id":577,"date":"2010-07-30T13:24:19","date_gmt":"2010-07-30T17:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stayfocusedpress.com\/blog\/?p=577"},"modified":"2022-07-30T07:19:03","modified_gmt":"2022-07-30T12:19:03","slug":"portrait-tip-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stayfocusedpress.com\/?p=577","title":{"rendered":"Portrait Tip # 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Portraits are the most common type of photographs. We&#8217;d like to share some of our know-how 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>Lighting Tricks<\/strong><br \/>\nPortraits are usually composed using soft, even lighting. However, you can put strong and high contrast lighting to good use by carefully posing your subject.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"50%\" valign=\"top\">\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.arnielee.com\/sfp\/blog\/images\/portraits\/IMG_2181.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[577]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.arnielee.com\/sfp\/blog\/images\/portraits\/IMG_2181s.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"225\"><\/a><\/center><br \/>\nThis photo was taken in the shade where the light was soft. This type of lighting made the young girl&#8217;s skin tones equally soft.<\/td>\n<td width=\"50%\" valign=\"top\">\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.arnielee.com\/sfp\/blog\/images\/portraits\/IMG_2176.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[577]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.arnielee.com\/sfp\/blog\/images\/portraits\/IMG_2176s.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"222\"><\/a><\/center><br \/>\nHere, I&#8217;ve placed the subject in a location that has strong side lighting. I like the effect on the highlighted side of the face. Take care not to overexpose the highlights.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Portraits are the most common type of photographs. We&#8217;d like to share some of our know-how for taking better people pictures. Lighting Tricks Portraits are usually composed using soft, even lighting. However, you can put strong and high contrast lighting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stayfocusedpress.com\/?p=577\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,64,4],"tags":[65,609,608,597],"class_list":["post-577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kids","category-lighting","category-tips","tag-faces","tag-lighting","tag-portraits","tag-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stayfocusedpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stayfocusedpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stayfocusedpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stayfocusedpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stayfocusedpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=577"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/stayfocusedpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11352,"href":"https:\/\/stayfocusedpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577\/revisions\/11352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stayfocusedpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stayfocusedpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stayfocusedpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}