Welcome to HeartLens Portraits by Cristina & Hugo!

We are professional photographers based in Lisbon, Portugal, specializing in Newborn, Maternity, and Women’s Portraits. On this page and YouTube channel, we share our creative journey, behind-the-scenes moments, photography tips, editing techniques, resources, and helpful guides.

In the next video, we introduce the new HeartLens Portraits project, dedicated to showcasing the entire photography journey. We’ll share behind-the-scenes moments from photoshoots, explain the creative process, demonstrate posing, photography, and lighting techniques, and explore customer experience, management, as well as image editing and retouching.

We own two photography studios in Portugal specializing in Maternity and Newborn sessions. We are passionate about empowering women through our lens, capturing their beauty with stunning Beauty, Fashion, Fine Art, and Boudoir photoshoots.

Join our vibrant community to learn, share, and celebrate your passion for photography. Whether you’re a professional photographer eager to explore new techniques, perspectives, and processes, or an amateur or curious enthusiast, you’ll find valuable insights and inspiration here. Become part of our journey and enjoy the rich content we offer.

We have created this webpage not only as a common ground to offer free videos and access to photography information, guides, and tips, but also to provide a store filled with resources to elevate your photography. Use our overlays and textures to add depth and dimension to your images. Additionally, learn from our experience through our ebooks, video guides, and tutorials to take your skills to the next level.

We also have a YouTube channel featuring behind-the-scenes videos, where we showcase full photoshoots along with detailed information on lighting and camera setups, posing guides, and in-depth explanations of our creative goals and guidelines. Additionally, we host live sessions on our YouTube channel focused on image retouching. These sessions cover not only fully manual techniques to help you learn the craft but also demonstrate tools that enhance both the quality and efficiency of retouching commercial photoshoots.

Our Blog Posts will cover a wide range of materials used in our studio—not just studio setups with backdrops and accessories, but also lighting gear, camera equipment, software, and hardware. Additionally, we’ll explore the tools and materials we use to record videos and create our content. A significant focus will be on AI, discussing how it can assist and shape a new model for photography.

Thanks you all for coming, and we will see you all around here!

Cristina and Hugo
HeartLens Portraits