Celebrity Portrait Photography

Celebrity portrait photographer Brian Smith offers up a behind-the-scenes glimpse of his celebrity portrait photo shoots of Hollywood stars

RIP Robin Gibb

Heaven’s Disco must be cranking this week as Robin Gibb joins Donna Summer on the dance floor behind the pearly velvet rope… I shot this portrait of the Bee Gees for Entertainment Weekly back in 1997 when they were making their comeback tour and as you can see from this photo, the lads were a […]

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Film Noir: Evan Handler

There are many online photo communities and I’ve recently enjoyed interacting with the 500px online photo-sharing community. This weekend I added a portrait of Evan Handler AKA ‘Charlie Runkle’ from the ART & SOUL project to a group of black & white celebrity portraits I call Film Noir. An alert 500px member noticed that if

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Celebrity portrait photography of The X Factor winner Melanie Amaro photographed by Brian Smith

Melanie Amaro has the X Factor

Published: December 23, 2011 Congratulations to Sunrise, Florida’s own Melanie Amaro for her X Factor USA win. She’s got an amazing voice that took her to the top of a talent-packed group. Here’s Melanie’s favorite shot from the shoot I did when I appeared on X Factor to photograph all the finalists. EQUIPMENT: SONY NEX-5N

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X Factor Farewell

Wishing Great Success to this week’s X Factor casualties LeRoy Bell and Lakoda Rayne. On your way to stardom, never stop believing in yourself. It was my pleasure to photograph you! EQUIPMENT: SONY NEX-5N SONY NEX Electronic Viewfinder SONY NEX Camera Mount Adapter LA-EA2 SONY 24mm/1.8 E-Mount Lens SONY CZ 85/1.4 SONY CZ 24-70/2.8 LIGHTING:

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My Prime Time Debut on The X Factor

Published: November 18, 2011 This is beyond surreal… Much L-O-V-E to everyone at X Factor and Sony for my prime-time debut photographing celebrity portraits of The X Factor Finalists with SONY NEX-5N then passing the cameras out to all the contestants so they could see how easy it was to get great professional results with

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