10 street portrait photography tips: Take amazing street shots

October 10, 2021

Professional portrait photographer Jade Keshia Gordon shares 10 top tips for perfect outdoor street portraits

Portraiture is a wonderful avenue of photography, enabling you to get expressive with poses, lighting and location. However, it can often feel a little overwhelming as there’s so much to consider when working with a model – and you need to have good people skills, directing models to get the photos you envision. We caught up with professional portrait photographer Jade Keshia Gordon to get her advice when starting out.

Jade Keshia Gordon is a professional beauty and fashion Canon photographer based in Peckham, London, and has been taking portraits for more than ten years. She started her career in street portraiture working with bloggers, YouTubers and influencers in the London area.

We teamed her with reader of PhotoPlus: The Canon Magazine(opens in new tab), Shana-Rochelle, for a masterclass in outdoor street portrait photography around London, photographing models Myers London(opens in new tab) and Tash Soodeen(opens in new tab). Here, you’ll find Jade’s top 10 tips for portraiture, along with some of the images that Shana-Rochelle was able to take by applying them to her own photography.