Top Tips for Environmental Portrait Photography

A professional guide to photographing environmental portraits.

Environmental portraits are a great way for photographers to make money as they’re often in high demand by many businesses. While that may sound appealing, environmental portraits are not without their challenges.

I’ve put together a guide to outline some of the most common challenges you may face and explain how you can plan for a successful shoot next time you’re commissioned to shoot these artistic portraits here:

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[TimXMan]

The point of environmental portraits. They want to show what they do, the services for the company
Tip 1. Manage difficulty’s (lighting)
Tip 2. Reconnaissance if you can
Tip 3. Depth of field and light 💡 and mood
Tip 4. Natural light look, repositioning things
Tip 5. Research the location for existing photos
Tip 6. Know the subjects profession
Tip 7. Make sure they have the right clothes
Tip 8. Have an assistant For set up and test shots
Tip 9. Get there early
Tip 10. Don’t let the client guide you too much
Tip 11. Take reference images to put everything back after the shoot
Tip 12. Consider existing light artificial light and daylight
Tip 13. Have a good conversation with the subject to put them at ease.
Tip 14. Check final images

[hartgetzen]

This is THE go-to video on environmental portraiture. We’ll done.

[SusanneGeert]

I watch this video 2 years ago and now again. I ABSOLUTELY love this and hope you would create more on this topic 🙏

[sarehization]

I should watch this video 10 times! Thank you so much! Very useful tips!

[juanfarrell]

This was great, ignore the haters. If they need exposure minutiae, then they need to go back to basics.

[juredernovsek]

These are some great tips and photos. Thank you

[rondonski]

Very timely lesson for me. I searched for ideas and found your tips here. I'm going to shoot a restaurant interiors, well, two food restaurants next Sunday. Then Monday, a vegan food shoot in the 2nd restaurant. And portraits of the French chef and her souix chef. Is that Sous? Anyway, I'll be using your techniques for the environmental portrait shoot and one of my own. I'd like to have the chef juggle some knives and fruits floating in mid air. Thank you, Karl!

[piusgyagenda]

This has come at a point when environmental potraits is the task I have for the day, thanks man

[marcomark]

Great real life experience advice Karl Taylor. I like your style of shooting. I thought I was actually going to learn here today. Didn't realize it was an advertisement.

[aaronalexander]

Karl thanks for sharing this. ive been watching you for 4 months now all the way from Philadelphia. your the best out there I've seen!

[hartgetzen]

Perfect advice. Hard to fail if you follow this excellent guide!

[iragrahamiii]

Your work is excellent! I do environmental portraits and you have great information. I can relate!

[tedming]

Throughout the entire video I was patiently waiting for Karl to shout: "Who the **** is making that bloody squeaky noise?!" Perhaps he did. Afterwards.

[flaviopresutti]

And that's why you are one of my favourite photographers!

[tuannguyentruong]

As a viewer, I must admid that your videos really impress me for all the experiences. And as a photographer, I want to call you teacher for what you share. I really hope that I have a chance to meet you someday.

[ceciliainnes]

Wow, love to listen how incredibly thorough you are. You know your stuff and it's so generous of you to share. Look forward to diving into your course and platform.

[Hongs.average]

Very helpful preparation and on site notes! Thank you ^^

[joekoonziii]

Fantastic knowledge delivered in a very effective way- thank you for this

[juliasocialmarketing]

Fantastic advice, thank you. Exactly what I needed. Subscribed and liked. :)

[josephchan]

Awesome!! Thanks for the sample course. Wish you great success this year.