Celebrity Portrait Photography

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

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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Tim Daly’s ‘Secrets to Great Headshot Photography’

My pal Tim Daly saw that I was sharing my ‘Secrets of Great Portrait Photography’ at this year’s PDN’s PhotoPlus Expo on October 27th in NYC. Naturally he’s gotta share his own, so in the interest of another point of view, here are Tim Daly’s ‘Secrets to Great Headshot Photography’ Casting Directors take note –

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Hey 60 Minutes, That’s My Sports Illustrated Cover!

It’s kinda cool when you’re watching 60 Minutes and all of a sudden one of your photos fills the screen like this Sports Illustrated Cover of NFL Agent Drew Rosenhaus for a profile on the Miami super-agent, but hey 60 Minutes, how bout a little love?

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Serena Nails a Shoot

One of the most overlooked aspects of any shoot is making sure the subjects have FUN! But we always try to have fun and we certainly did when we shot Serena Williams showing off her new skills as a manicurist for People Magazine. You mean the 12-time grand slam winner does nails??? You bet! Seems

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Dreaming of Celebrity?

Just in time for the Holidays, here’s just the thing for that person on your list who dreams of celebrity. Thanks to these Pappillowazzi cases from the ICP store they can sleep like a celebrity. At just 35 bucks how can you deny their celebrity dreams?

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