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 ...

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 Finnish painter known for her self-portraits and realist work encapsulates the haze in between life and mortality This 1915 self-portrait, created by the Finnish modernist Helene Schjerfbeck at ...

Van Gogh’s “Self-portrait with bandaged Ear and Pipe” shows that the painter had lost none of his artistic skill—and it has ...

At a first glance, you might be fooled into thinking that these images are intimate photographs - but you'd be mistaken. Instead, they are the meticulous work of Brooklyn-based artist, David Kassan, ...