Beyond The Lens: Glamorize Your Portraits with Dexter Yarbrough

Employing a good technique and using the best gadgets are not enough. Dexter Yarbrough shares some simple tips you can use to create professional-looking portraits:

Strike a Pose
Your subjects may find it awkward to strike a model’s pose. Simply positioning the hands or feet in different ways can make for more interesting portraits. Have a pianist sit by a piano and place his hands on the keyboard or show off a ballerina’s perfect tip-toeing stint.

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Strike up a Conversation
The sight of a photographer armed with a camera can be intimidating for some. Engage your subject in conversation. It is rare to find subjects who are not camera-shy. Talking will lighten up the mood and helps your subject loosen up and get comfortable being in front of the camera.

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Knowing Your Subject
Dexter Yarbrough believes conversations go a long way. Not only do you help your subjects get comfortable, but this will give you some idea of what type of people they are. You can capture shots that show more of who they are as a person.

Candid Shots
Once you have established rapport with your subject, this will give you some insight on how they would respond to what you say. This will help you capture more candid, natural-looking expressions.

Get Closer
Closing in provides more detail of and focus on your subject and limits the clutter unnecessary objects create if you are too far from them.

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Learn more tips and tricks at www.djyphotography.com.

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To Touch the Intangible: The Vision and Photography of Dexter Yarbrough

Vision, as Dexter Yarbrough writes, in effect, is the photographer’s keen eye for details and the bigger picture. Photography he simply presents as both an art and craft. He speaks as one who has spent a considerable amount of time shooting in and out of the sun and developing those shots in the dark room or using Photoshop.

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Yearning to touch the intangible, Dexter Yarbrough, Investigation and Security Operations Director of Patton Solutions, pursues photography with the ferocity of a detective sniffing and skippering on the heels of a suspect. However, only things of beauty—and its immortalization thereof—are what he is after when he’s doing photography.

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Dexter Yarbrough has been inspired to gather talented professionals into a creative lab, which he touted as DJY Photography. Though unbound by blood, these shooters are united by the same passionate DNA that drives them to chronicle fleeting moments as they happen. Skills, knowledge, experience, and the “eye” are their choicest weapons, alongside the camera.

Dexter Yarbrough has passed on to them the vision of immortalizing a memory—and everything that comprises it, including the width of a smile or length of a shadow—on a canvass that is different from that of a sketch artist or a painter, but nonetheless as tangible.

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More information about Dexter Yarbrough and DJY Photography can be found at www.djyphotography.com.