5 lighting tips for portraits from Peter Hurley

Sunday 17 October 2021, 22:11 by Elja Trum | 4,191 views | 0 comments

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Peter Hurley is one of the world's best-known headshot photographers. In this video, he gives you 5 tips for good lighting for your portraits. And you don't necessarily need to buy expensive equipment for this.

More headshot photography tips?

Maurice Jager is also a headshot photographer and trained with Peter Hurley. In his Business portrait photography course on Photofacts Academy, you'll discover many more practical tips for taking beautiful portraits.

Of course, you can also watch this course directly if you use our 5 Day Deal (40 euros off + a free photography book).

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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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