Masters of Photography
Offered By: CreativeLive
Course Description
Overview
IN THIS CLASS YOU'LL LEARN:
- Albert’s tips and tricks on landscape, fashion, portraiture and still life photography.
- Simple lighting techniques using natural light and studio light
- Simple tips on preparing for portrait shoots
- How to create incredible portraits using just two $10 bulbs
- Albert’s tips and tricks on landscape, fashion, portraiture and still life photography.
- Simple lighting techniques using natural light and studio light
- Simple tips on preparing for portrait shoots
- How to create incredible portraits using just two $10 bulbs
ABOUT ALBERT’S CLASS:
Learn how Albert creates his amazing photographs on location and in the studio using simple explanations.
Albert reveals his shoot secrets on how he photographs Presidents, Hollywood stars, music’s greatest artists, landscapes, nudes, chimpanzees and still life. We follow him on location in Morocco, Paris and in his studio in New York. You will find out where he suggests you look to get inspiration, how to approach a portrait session, see how to light like Albert.
We show you exactly how Albert works on these images after the shoot, it’s all about Albert giving you his ideas and advice and helping you see and create better images for yourself.
It’s not about what camera to use, it’s about how to see and develop ideas, concepts and narrative to make stunning photographs.
As Albert says..."You have to stay switched on"
Syllabus
- Meet your Master
- Learn from the journey
- Using inspirations
- Photography is stopping time
- Albert's library of ideas
- Tips on preparing for a portrait shoot
- Setting up the studio
- Understanding studio collaboration
- The importance of casting and hair & make-up
- Foreground studio set up
- Studio session with a model - set up 1
- Studio session with a model - set up 2
- Studio session with a model - set up 3
- Picking the best shot
- Working with photoshop
- Creating a portrait of Alfred Hitchcock
- The gigantic question... Colour or black and white?
- One day with Kate Moss
- Learn to have your ideas ready
- Using Polariods
- Creating beautiful photographs of hands
- Controlling natural light
- Shooting a monkey with a gun
- Choosing your format
- Composition and lens
- Shooting landscapes. The Isle of Skye
- Planning and ideas for a landscape shoot
- Creating still life images
- Photographing the Lost Diary
- Shooting album covers
- The Strip Search Project
- Shooting Las Vegas landscapes
- Photographing Breaunna
- Balancing daylight, God bless America
- Creating the Maroc Project
- Creating the Maroc shoot
- Photographing sand dunes
- Photographing Moroccan children
- Advice on making portraits
- How to be alert to finding photographs
- Making a portrait of Mike Tyson
- Creating intense colour in a photograph
- Portraits of rap stars and a Golden Boy
- Photographing Jack Nicholson
- Creating a portrait of David Cronenberg
- How to light only using two $10 bulbs
- Studio fashion set up 4
- Studio session with a model. The geography of a face
- Look inside the picture
- Creating memorability in an image
- Combining nudes and landscapes
- A perfect print
- The business side of things
- Conclusion and farewell
Taught by
Albert Watson
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