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    Advice #18: Go to their natural environment

    Portrait photography is of course not only about studio photos. You kan make just as good – and often even better – photos, if you take your camera outside or go to the home, where the children live. The child is more relaxed in it’s own home and you will be able to catch more [...]

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    Advice #17: Use props to relax the child

    I often use props when making portraits of kids. It serves two different purposes. First of all it makes it possible to capture natural looking expressions full of curiosity, smiles and laughter that will end up as much more interesting and funny portraits than the traditional “still life” portrait . Second, it will make the [...]

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    Advice #16: Space matters

    There are so many things to say about composition. One thing that I like to use is what’s usually called “negative space”. This can be achieved by many different approaches, but the simplest way to explain it is when your subject take up a relatively small part of the portrait and is looking either into [...]

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    Advice #15: Do a lot with less

    If I could bring only one piece of equipment beside my camera, it would without doubt be my reflector. I use a reflector for all kinds of portraits – high key and low key studio portraits, and for natural light portraits indoor and outdoor. I think that I use it for 99 percent of my [...]

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    Advice #14: Learn to love clouds

    Even without expensive light equipment you can make pro-quality portraits just by opening your front door and go outside. The garden is a very natural environment for child portraits and there’s actually nothing like a cloudy day to give you brilliant light for photography. Clouds work like a huge softbox in the sky, and gives [...]

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    Advice #13: Smiles are not required

    It’s okay to smile in a portrait, but it’s certainly not required. You’re not making a toothpaste commercial. Most of my favorite portraits don’t have any smiles. Not because I prefer sad kids, but because this is how we usually look. Most of us don’t walk around smiling all the time. We have a natural [...]

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