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Digital Camera World
Digital Camera World
Ariane Sherine

This $5 coffee shop trick beats a $5,000 studio shoot and it's perfect for building your portrait photography career

Woman looking to the side in edited portrait photo taken in a cafe.

As an extremely lazy person, my favorite shoot location is my kitchen. Clients travel to me, and all I have to do is move from my bed to the dining table, where there's most natural light. But I live out in London's Zone 3, and sometimes my clients are equally lazy (or just have hectic lives) and want to stay in Zone 1. So, as a compromise, I shoot in a coffee shop in Central London – a large and busy branch of LEON in the Brunswick Centre, Russell Square.

A reasonably wide aperture means the 'coffee shop background' isn't distracting. (Image credit: Ariane Sherine)
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