Elja Trum

Alternative portraits, portrait photos with a twist

Wednesday 9 March 2022, 20:02 by | 4,440 views | 0 comments

This article was translated from Dutch with the help of AI. Read the original.

When shooting portraits, you are usually focused on getting the eyes sharp. That is not surprising, because the eyes are generally the first thing you look at, both in real life and in a photo. Still, a different approach can work really well too.


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Elja Trum is the founder of Photofacts and online photography course website Photofacts Academy. He has been writing about photography since 2006. Elja is also the author of (Dutch) books on composition, black-and-white photography, flash photography and portrait photography.

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