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• Use standard or telephoto lens:A better choice for portraits is either a standard lens or a short telephoto lens. The classic portrait focal lengths for a full-frame camera are 50mm, 85mm prime lenses and a 70-200mm zoom
• Use aperture priority: Aperture Priority gives you direct control over the aperture, and as a result the depth of field  
• Posing group portraits: When you’re arranging a group portrait, the first thing you’ll probably consider is height, putting taller people at the back and shorter people at the front. Use high ISO indoors or f/8 outdoors
• Macro photography- break the rules:You don’t have to use small apertures to make an impact with macro photography – using the largest apertures available on your lens is just as an effective technique.
• Use fill-flash-get them to face in the opposite direction of the sun. With the sun now behind them, simply use a burst of flash to brighten up their face.
• Hyperfocal focusing technique: Depth of field is an important consideration when photographing landscapes. It’s often desirable to get as much of a view – from foreground details to the distant horizon – to appear as sharp as possible. choose smaller apertures and then manually focus at the hyperfocal distance
• Level Horizons: you’ll want the horizon in a picture to be level.Your camera’s Live View screen has a grid overlay that can be activated in the menu to ensure horizons are level, and it may also have an electronic level display that can be superimposed over the image.
• Black and white landscapes:If you want to take great black and white landscape photos, shoot in colour. By using your digital camera’s raw picture quality setting rather than JPEG, you’ll record a colour image that you can convert to black and white later in photo editing software such as Photoshop
• Focus on eyes: While eye contact is not always desirable in a portrait, sharp eyes certainly are. Manually select an AF point that’s positioned over one of your model’s eyes, or use the central focus point to lock focus on their eye.
• Shooting from the hip: Try taking street photos without looking through the viewfinder. Select your camera’s Program mode, set the drive mode to Silent if your camera offers this feature, and manually pre-focus the lens at around five or six feet. Press the shutter release in short bursts.
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Sue Bryce is a portrait photographer who photographs women. She tries to make women look and feel beautiful in her photos.

She also tries to eliminate negativity that women feel, which gives her inspiration for her photographs.

I used Sue Bryce’s different portraits as inspiration for my own project. I tried to replicate her style in making women feel

beautiful so I made them pose in a similar fashion to a few of her portraits.  I edited the background on the portraits so that

it’s a deep black for the most part so that the girls stand out in the pictures.