66 tips cards for posing & lighting in portrait photography

66 tips cards for posing and lighting in portrait photography
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Portrait photography shopping list

Portrait lens: This will give you the perfect perspective for faces and beautifully defocused backgrounds
Backdrops: Not essential, but extremely useful for pretending your living room is a studio
Lighting kit: A two light kit is all you need to make professional looking portraits
Light modifiers: Perfect for 'shaping' the light
Reflector: If you get nothing else, get a reflector!

Digital Camera magazine has been putting pop-out tips cards on its covers for dozens of issues (find out how to subscribe below), so we thought why not put our favorites online? 

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Rod Lawton
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Rod is an independent photography journalist and editor, and a long-standing Digital Camera World contributor, having previously worked as DCW's Group Reviews editor. Before that he has been technique editor on N-Photo, Head of Testing for the photography division and Camera Channel editor on TechRadar, as well as contributing to many other publications. He has been writing about photography technique, photo editing and digital cameras since they first appeared, and before that began his career writing about film photography. He has used and reviewed practically every interchangeable lens camera launched in the past 20 years, from entry-level DSLRs to medium format cameras, together with lenses, tripods, gimbals, light meters, camera bags and more. Rod has his own camera gear blog at fotovolo.com but also writes about photo-editing applications and techniques at lifeafterphotoshop.com