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Free Adobe Lightroom Presets and Tips for Indoor Portrait Photography
with Chris Hau.
We recently asked Hau to share a few of those tips, plus sixAdobe Photoshop Lightroom presets he uses for indoor portrait photography.
Tip: Say yes to the S.
For a more natural and flattering portrait, create an S with the subject's body.
Get to know your subject.
If you spend some time talking to your portrait subjects, you can capture a portrait that accurately reflects their personality. And connect the shoot location and environment to the person; for example, it wouldn’t make any sense to shoot a firefighter in a pet shop.
Tip: Use humor.
Say, “On the count of three” and then keep counting past three until you get a genuine smile out of your subject.
Tip: HSL sliders.
The HSL sliders can completely change the look and feel of your image.
Tip: It's OK to update presets.
While presets are good starting points for your edits, it’s important to constantly evolve and improve. As your style evolves, so should your presets.
Tip: Invest in yourself.
It’s fun and easy to invest in the gear, but there’s much more value in investing in your own education and growth — and most of the time, it’s more affordable. Whether that means buying that course on storytelling or spending your own money on a personal project that really excites you, that’s where the major growth will happen, not in the camera upgrades. At the end of the day, any camera is enough to tell a great story; it’s what you can do with that camera is what makes you a great photographer.
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