Essential Tips to Become a Pro Portrait Photographer 📸

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Can professional images be made with bargain-basement gear? We took up the challenge to create stunning portraits with the bare minimum. Chris Niccolls spent as little as possible to equip professional portrait photographer Nathan Elson and find out what was the very least he needed to create stunning portraits.

Read Chris's full story and see the portraits: https://petapixel.com/2024/04/30/the-very-least-you-need-to-be-a-pro-portrait-photographer/

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0:00 - Intro
1:11 - The Camera
2:33 - The photographer
3:35 - The shoot
5:23 - Looking for light
6:22 - Focal length
6:51 - Crisis!
7:20 - The wrap