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Film Friday: Shooting a Film Noir Style Portrait

Film Friday: Shooting a Film Noir Style Portrait

In my post Recent Trends in Portrait Photography I wrote about a trend to create underexposed images and post them on social media. In it I wrote: The use of “underexposed images is more of a technical detail and maybe I’m too sensitive about it but some photographers seem to think that the best way to show a dark moody film noir image is to underexpose the portrait. Nope.

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At a time when everybody who writes a blog is an expert, I’ve have been writing about photography, cameras and studio lighting since 1981 and digital photography since 1989. I’m passionate about photography and if you would like to get some additional photo tips from all that experience…