Portrait Photography Fundamentals
Offered By: CreativeLive
Course Description
Overview
Want to be able to go into any situation with your camera and have the confidence to know you’ll get the shot? Award-Winning photographer Scott Robert Lim goes in-depth on the four foundational elements you must conquer if you want to develop your creativity and style.
Scott will give you the guidelines you need to master:
- Lighting
- Posing
- Composition
- Post-Processing
Syllabus
- Class Introduction
- 5 Shots That WOW
- Four Fundamentals of Photography
- Create a Visual Impact with Composition
- Importance of Foreground and Background
- Create Depth in Landscape Images
- Photos Don't Always Follow the Rules
- Composition Practice Exercise
- Composition Critique of Student Images
- Keys to Posing
- Shoot: Classic Elegance Female Pose
- Shoot: Modern Female Pose
- Shoot: Rollover Female Pose
- Female Hands & Arms Poses Overview
- Shoot: Hands and Arms Poses for Female
- Seven Posing Guidelines
- Headshots Poses with Male Model
- Shoot: Headshot for Male Model
- Shoot: Sitting Poses for Male Model
- Shoot: Leaning Poses for Male Model
- Shoot: Standing Poses for Male Model
- Keys to Couples Posing
- Shoot: Couples Posing
- Couples Transitional Posing Overview
- Shoot: Transitional Posing
- Keys to Group Posing
- Accordion Technique with Groups
- Shoot: Accordion Technique
- Shoot: Best Buds Pose
- Shoot: Talk with Your Hands Pose
- Shoot: Lock Arms and Hold Hands Pose
- Run at the Camera and Dance in Your Seat Poses
- Shoot: Pod Method Pose
- Posing Critique of Student Images
- Introduction to Lighting
- Soft vs Hard Light
- Difficult Lighting Situations
- Bright Light Techniques
- Overcast Light Techniques
- Low Light Techniques
- Lighting Techniques Q&A
- Drama Queen Lighting
- Laundry Basket Lighting
- Make it Rain Lighting
- Smart Phone Painting with Light
- Mini LED Bokeh Lighting
- Choose the Right Lighting System
- Hybrid Flash System
- Innovative Accessories
- Gear Overview
- Theatrical Post-Processing
- Ten Keys to Post-Processing
- Essential Skills to Post-Processing
- Headshot Post-Processing
- Bright Light Post-Processing
- Flat Light Post-Processing
- Low Light Post-Processing
- Introduction to Fine Art Post-Processing
- Light & Airy Fine Art Post-Processing
- Dark & Moody Fine Art Post-Processing
- Post-Processing Critique of Student Images
Taught by
Scott Robert Lim
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