People pictures fall into two categories: portraits and candid ... The most common mistake made by photographers is that they are not physically close enough to their subjects.

Your Shot photographer Lex Schulte captured a self-portrait as he drove to work. Schulte's photo was chosen by National Geographic staff photographers Becky Hale and Mark Thiessen for the recently ...

What do the National Geographic photographers share ... McCurry shot his immortal portrait well before the proliferation of the Internet and the invention of the smartphone.

Photographers for National Geographic spend a lot of time doing ... of a jack-of-all-trades—you need to be able to photograph portraits, landscapes, and everything in between.

This story appears in the October 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. A naked mole rat. That was photographer Joel Sartore’s first model in 2006 when he began making studio portraits of ...

Photo story: wild beauty in Sardinia, from coast to mountains Photo story: wild beauty in Sardinia, from coast to mountains Here’s why you should keep a travel journal Here’s why you should ...

His photos appear frequently in National Geographic magazine. "If you want to be a better photographer, stand in front of better stuff." That's a simple mantra and I repeat it like some mystical ...

Who better to help solve the selfie situation than a National Geographic photographer? Erika Larsen has traveled from Peru to Scandanavia to Hawaii photographing people—and that includes selfies ...

The year was 2006, and National Geographic photographer Joel Sartore wanted to try making formal portraits of animals in captivity instead of his usual shots of them in the wild. For his first ...

His photos appear frequently in National Geographic magazine. Down in the basement of the Treasurer’s House in York, England, is a simple, bare room that has taken on great fame among those who ...

One photo could help them rebuild. In 2011, with a printer and a temporary portrait studio on a corner in Cape Town, Webster invited people to pose for a free session. She printed their picture on ...