There are many reasons why you should add a dramatic backdrop to your portraits, whether you are working for a client or just making images for fun. And, if you follow a few simple steps, it’s easy to ...

Learn to both blur and darken backgrounds to capture more dramatic portraits with a combination of ND filters and fill-in ...

Honk honk! Goodbye pesky background. Photo: Charlie Sorrel/Cult of Mac The iPhone’s incredible Portrait mode does a great job of blurring the backgrounds of photos, making the subject stand out from ...

Creating a soft, out of focus background when you're shooting portraits will mean your subject will be the centre of attention and any distracting objects that are behind them are blurred out of view.

The new iPhones have some great new photography features, but the XR lacks a couple, for instance portrait mode for non-people subjects, owing to its sadly having only the one camera. So last year!

A deeply personal and tender portrait of a woman sitting by a large window in soft morning light, wearing a cozy robe or silk ...