How to shoot awesome portrait photography

How to shoot awesome portrait photography



COOPH presents some fun tips and tricks on how to shoot epic portrait photos for social media, job applications and creative gifts. There’s a million ways to do it, but here are some of our favorites!

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Comments

48 responses to “How to shoot awesome portrait photography”

  1. COOPH Avatar
    COOPH

    What's your favorite tip? Which one have you tried? Show us your results by posting your favorite tip on IG using #COOPHTip

  2. Lica Marti Avatar
    Lica Marti

    background music is distracting, it's also hard to hear explanation and authors voice

  3. puspen bain Avatar
    puspen bain

    learn something!!

  4. Md Taufiqul Haque Avatar
    Md Taufiqul Haque

    wait wait wait. you. do. not. touch. your. model. ever.

  5. Munze Konza Avatar
    Munze Konza

    cool

  6. Sunday Horror Special Avatar
    Sunday Horror Special

    Faltu !!

  7. Medicine Avatar
    Medicine

    Dude….u r awesome💥💥💥🤘🤘🤘

  8. Levi Avatar
    Levi

    Are you from Hungary?

  9. Valen chaparro Avatar
    Valen chaparro

    What cámara is?

  10. Brian Basham Avatar
    Brian Basham

    ok..whats the name of the music

  11. HonzaVin Avatar
    HonzaVin

    Nice tips but most of photos were shot by using external flash and softbox. That thing is not very cheap. And it is also the thing I miss in my gear because it's quite expensive.

  12. Hassan Ali Avatar
    Hassan Ali

    What do you mean by shallow focus?

  13. Shubham Garg Avatar
    Shubham Garg

    the best photography channel there is ..

  14. CR. 7 Avatar
    CR. 7

    مبدعين اعشق التصوير

  15. Tiffany L.A Ward Avatar
    Tiffany L.A Ward

    Don't want to come off seeming like a idiot, but could I take these exact style of photos using my Galaxy S8?

  16. jaron Avatar
    jaron

    Seid ihr aus Deutschland? Wegen „Wunderkerzen“

    Are you from Germany? Because „Wunderkerzen“

  17. Dilara . . . Avatar
    Dilara . . .

    What's the name of you camera and fotoshop app…☺😊

  18. Vj Sitinjau Lauik Avatar
    Vj Sitinjau Lauik

    nice job

  19. Francesco Davide Salzano Avatar
    Francesco Davide Salzano

    how to "capture the sun"? Do you use a flash, a light or just camera settings and natural light?

  20. Max nicolo Avatar
    Max nicolo

    Woo!

  21. Bogdan Domanovic Avatar
    Bogdan Domanovic

    Good video and im your 666.666th subscriber

  22. mohammed kaddourbey Avatar
    mohammed kaddourbey

    amazing channel♥♥

  23. Ali Jaafer Avatar
    Ali Jaafer

    @tatwot

  24. Love Media Avatar
    Love Media

    😊 Happy

  25. Prokopyo Crus Avatar
    Prokopyo Crus

    nice 😙

  26. udaya kumar Avatar
    udaya kumar

    PLS give some tips in take photos in mobile

  27. Vivek Rajani Avatar
    Vivek Rajani

    https://youtu.be/MtBgTLdbkUI

    pls checkout my photography tutorial and if u enjoy the video plz like and subscribe to my channel

  28. taysir hashemi Avatar
    taysir hashemi

    What is that thing creating colourful smokes"?

  29. Dineshsinh Puwar Avatar
    Dineshsinh Puwar

    Sir, Please learn me this settings.

  30. Pamela Enyonu Avatar
    Pamela Enyonu

    Trying to make the move from smartphone camera to actual camera and your channel is god sent!

  31. King Baba Avatar
    King Baba

    Wow

  32. Fahim Siddique Avatar
    Fahim Siddique

    assume

  33. Aswin Kumar Avatar
    Aswin Kumar

    Inspiring one…

  34. Michelle Premer Avatar
    Michelle Premer

    How about a COOPH style tutorial on double exposures?? Like the ones featured here??

  35. Sofien Rhouma Avatar
    Sofien Rhouma

    stop buyingwhat PS & LR can do

  36. NALIN SHARMA Avatar
    NALIN SHARMA

    Could you please tell the exposure settings values you shoot at

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    Ajob 10

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  38. Camilo Ortega Avatar
    Camilo Ortega

    How to shoot awesome cliché photos

  39. rus Avatar
    rus

    who's watching this without owning DSLR but only a phone…

  40. Deepak at PS Avatar
    Deepak at PS

    Girl with sun

  41. pavan sharma Avatar
    pavan sharma

    For editing which software do you use

  42. Magnitude Rev Avatar
    Magnitude Rev

    never even hear of thought of that sparkler idea… that's cool af

  43. sunwillriseagain Avatar
    sunwillriseagain

    Thanks for the free cv example

  44. Alan Shariat Avatar
    Alan Shariat

    Great ideas 🙂

  45. Timothy Skomski Avatar
    Timothy Skomski

    good tips. The 'music' is crap.

  46. Rajooo Prakash Avatar
    Rajooo Prakash

    I like your techniques! please post more! Thank you so much!

  47. Dipto Avatar
    Dipto

    nice work COOPH

  48. Ashley Funes Avatar
    Ashley Funes

    Does anyone know what those colored smoke things are called?