The last time I had my portrait taken I was at school: eleven years old, hair glued into a middle parting and tightly bound into two perfect bunches that rested on a static John Lewis shirt.

3. Recompose – When shooting portraits in particular, focus the subject, lock that focus and then recompose by angling the camera down slightly. Too many portraits are taken with the subject’s face in ...

In other words, your photo’s story includes far more than technical aspects, and its composition transcends technical limitations. The lovely 2015 video above from Canon Australia, beautifully ...