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I'm doing a portrait shoot soon, and while I've got a few ideas in my mind, I wondered if you guys could maybe post a few links/images that you think are particularly powerful and/or interesting. I just need to try and get some inspiration, and looking at photographs is always the best way, I find.

I've looked at lots of the normal places, had a quick glance over the internet/flickr, but there's so much out there it's hard to find the good stuff amongst all the average shots. So a few inspiring links/images would be really appreciated.

Thanks guys! :)
 
It might help if you gave a bit more information about what you're after.
Who are your models? - children / adults / male / female and what's their style? Where are you doing the shoot? - At home / on location / studio?

Afraid that it's too much of an open question otherwise.

p.s. A reminder to posters to keep references to other people's work as links rather than posting somebody else's images in the thread.
 
SarahLee said:
It might help if you gave a bit more information about what you're after.
Who are your models? - children / adults / male / female and what's their style? Where are you doing the shoot? - At home / on location / studio?

Afraid that it's too much of an open question otherwise.

p.s. A reminder to posters to keep references to other people's work as links rather than posting somebody else's images in the thread.
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Okay, sorry for being a bit vague. To give you a bit of an idea of what I've done recently, I can refer you to this thread. I'll be shooting a few female models (separately, not the same shoot) - and it's my first time shooting them, and their first time being photographed, so as for style, that's yet to be really worked out, I guess. The photos will be taken at my home studio.

lexie said:
i have a few photographers blogs in my rss feed at the top of my browser screen, i check them every few days to see what others are doing and make mental notes of what i like. i really should write them down though because mental notes are easily lost lol.

http://www.audreywoulardblog.com/

http://www.bobbiandmike.com/blog/

http://tamaralackey.com/galleries/tamara/

i hope these help ;)
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Thanks, those blogs look great. I'll bookmark them and have a proper flick through when I have a moment. Thanks! :)
 
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Auwyn said:
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Thanks for that :) But if you would care to look at the search page, there are 741,000 results. And I reckon 80% of that will be crap. So I was asking for/hoping for personal favourites and recommendations, so I didn't have to wade through too much crap... Perhaps I should have titled the thread "Favourite Portrait Photography" and I would have got more response...
 
How about the style magazines, such as iD?

The newsagents in and around Soho have a plethora of similar magazines most of which I haven't heard of and certainly you don't see in WH Smith. It's not just the editorial shots which are good but also the adverts.
 
As above, iD, Dazed & confused etc are great for reference.

There's a market near me that sells brand new, but 1 or 2 month out of date magazines for £1 each or something similar, so rather than buying current issues for £4 each it's easy to pick up a hand full of them.

My favourite portrait photographers are probably Vincent Peters, Rankin and Fred Greissing
 
E17phil said:
How about the style magazines, such as iD?

The newsagents in and around Soho have a plethora of similar magazines most of which I haven't heard of and certainly you don't see in WH Smith. It's not just the editorial shots which are good but also the adverts.
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Mahoneyd187 said:
As above, iD, Dazed & confused etc are great for reference.

There's a market near me that sells brand new, but 1 or 2 month out of date magazines for £1 each or something similar, so rather than buying current issues for £4 each it's easy to pick up a hand full of them.

My favourite portrait photographers are probably Vincent Peters, Rankin and Fred Greissing
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Thank you guys! That's the sort of thing I was looking for, because I've never heard of iD. I'll have a look into it... :)
 
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