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The Ultimate Guide to Portrait Photography
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The Ultimate Guide to Portrait Photography

With 30 video lessons, taught in detail by one of Malaysia's top photography master-trainer, Andrew Boey.
Highest Rated
Created byBeyond Photography
Last updated 10/2020
English

What you'll learn

  • Learn how to use shoot portraits beautifully.
  • Teaches the most important aspect of posing, the fundamentals of every person's Comfortable Side.
  • How to pose Men & Women effortlessly.
  • How to make your subjects younger, slimmer & taller in every photo shoot
  • How to get correct portrait croppings
  • Subjects' actual fronts
  • Train & Groom your subjects to always get the right, natural & perfect smile.
  • Camera settings for portrait shoot
  • Step by step real-life shoot by using natural lighting
  • Suitable camera lenses for portrait shoots
  • Fundamentals of portrait lightings
  • Introduces you to the main 6 classical portrait lights - Rembrandt Light, Reverse Rembrandt Light, Open & Closed Loop Light, Butterfly Light, Clamshell Light.
  • How to deal with slim faces, oval faces, symmetrical faces during photoshoots
  • 3-point & 4-point lightings

Course content

1 section • 30 lectures • 2h 28m total length

  • Introduction0:51

    The introduction video to this whole Course.

  • Comfortable Side3:46

    What makes a pose more natural-looking? This video explains the importance of a subject's Comfortable Side. This lesson also teaches you how to determine your photo-shoot subject's Comfortable Side.

  • Important Tips On Comfortable Side4:14

    This lesson explores more about how Comfortable Sides can be used extensively when posing your photo-shoot subjects, including the Do's and Don'ts.

  • How To Pose Arms, Hands, Fingers & Head11:21

    This lesson is all about how to pose arms, hands, fingers & head of subject in portrait shoot.

  • Posing Men & Women2:46

    This lesson is all about posing male & female subjects. Learn the differences in poses that each can do.

  • Younger, Slimmer & Taller Subjects4:57

    This lesson teaches you how you can make your subjects Younger, Slimmer & Taller. These 3 are the basic requirements of every portrait photoshoot.

  • Portrait Croppings2:17

    This lesson teaches you on portrait croppings.

  • Subject's Actual Fronts4:20

    Learn an important topic of posing called Actual Front, which corelates very much to where you crop your subjects and how they should be turning in their poses.

  • Coded Smiles3:12

    This video teaches you about the different smiles and the corresponding codification which makes portrait shoots simpler.

    Smiles are categorized into 4 types:
    Smile No 1, also called Smiling With Your Eyes
    Smile No 2, also called Smiling With Your Lips
    Smile No 3, the most easily executed one, also called Smiling With Your Teeth
    Smile No 4, frequently used in commercials shoot, also called Smiling With Your Stomach (also called a Laugh)

    To save time, every photographer should spend some time grooming their subjects on which smiles best to use.

    It is easier to use these smiles rather than telling the subject how much to smile and how little to smile.

    This is an example of Smile No 3 and every photographer should get their subjects to start with this Smile, because it is the easiest to perform.

  • Camera Settings for Portraits6:01

    In this lesson, you will learn camera settings for portraits.

  • Indoor Natural Lighting Portraits5:26

    Indoor Natural Lighting Portraits

  • Indoor Portraits with Flash3:24
  • Suitable Lenses For Portraits4:15
  • Camera's Color Settings For Portraits4:30
  • A Real-Life Studio Shoot with A Client44:22
  • The Fundamentals of Portrait Lights7:45
  • Portrait Lights Power Formula4:52
  • 6 Classic Portrait Lights - Rembrandt Light3:19

    There are 6 classic portrait lights, first is Rembrandt Light.

  • 6 Classic Portrait Lights - Reversed Rembrandt Light0:57
  • 6 Classic Portrait Lights - Open & Closed Loop Light2:27
  • 6 Classic Portrait Lights - Butterfly Light2:25
  • 6 Classic Portrait Lights - Clamshell Light1:25
  • 6 Classic Portrait Lights - Summary1:14
  • Lightings & Types of Faces - Lightings & Human Faces1:23
  • Lightings & Types of Faces - Slim Faces0:48
  • Lightings & Types of Faces - Oval Faces0:30
  • Lightings & Types of Faces - Symmetrical Faces0:53
  • 4-Point & 3-Point Lightings3:18
  • Thank you1:11
  • Real-Life Business Portraits9:59

    We adding this lesson here as part of our Expandable Syllabus, where we add new lessons and videos from time to time for our valued subscribers of this course. That way, our subscribers will get more value-for-money as being a subscriber of this E-Learning course.

    In this lesson, Andrew teaches his workflow of how he performs actual real-life business portraits for his long time customer Prisca Ang, a financial planner, who needed fresh new portraits for her business profile and portfolio.

    If you are keen to learn more and also the finer techniques in Business Portraits, you can check out this exciting and powerful E-Learning course from us : The Ultimate Guide to Business Portraits Photography

Requirements

  • Own camera
  • Photography equipments

Description

Learn how to use shoot portraits beautifully.

With 30 video lessons, taught in detail by one of Malaysia's top photography master-trainer, Andrew Boey.

Andrew has been shooting commercially for 25 years and deals with portrait shoot every day. He has devised many useful tricks to help his clients appear comfortable, natural, and photogenic in every shoot. Andrew has taught photography to more than 50,000 students worldwide.

  • Lesson 1, introduces the topics & sub-topics covered by this E-Learning course.

  • Lesson 2, teaches the most important aspect of posing, the fundamentals of every person's Comfortable Side. This will allow you to effortlessly POSE ANY SUBJECT of portrait shoots. You will learn how to easily propose standing or sitting poses for your portrait subjects. this will allow you to effortlessly POSE ANY SUBJECT of portrait shoots. You will learn how to easily propose standing or sitting poses for your portrait subjects.

  • Lesson 3, detailed and extra tips of Comfortable Side.

  • Lesson 4, teaches you how to pose subjects' arms, hands, fingers, shoulders, and heads.

  • Lesson 5, you will learn how to pose Men & Women effortlessly. You will also distinguish what makes a good female pose and what poses are suitable for male subjects.

  • Lesson 6, how you can always make your subjects younger, slimmer, and taller in every photo shoot.

  • Lesson 7, you will learn how to get perfect and correct Portrait Croppings (such as Long Shot, Medium Shot, Close-Up, ECU, CU, etc).

  • Lesson 8, in this lesson you will learn Subjects' Actual Fronts, a concept devised by master trainer Andrew to always make your subject look more friendly and less imposing or arrogant.

  • Lesson 9, a system created by Andrew that will allow you to train and groom your subjects to always get the right, natural, and perfect smile. He names this method, The Coded Smiles, where every smile has a code.

  • Lesson 10, camera settings that will make very portrait shoot effortless and technically correct in sharpness and exposure.

  • Lesson 11, a detailed step by step real-life shoot of how to shoot an indoor portrait using Natural Lighting.

  • Lesson 12, a detailed step by step real-life shoot of how to shoot an indoor portrait using Flash and added lights.

  • Lesson 13, discusses the suitable camera lenses for portrait shoots and why some lens are suitable and some lens will make subjects look fat and distorted.

  • Lesson 14, teaches you how to set your camera to attain correct and natural-looking colors for portraits. You will be exposed to the basics of digital color rendering.

  • Lesson 15, brings you into a REAL-LIFE studio shoot with one of Andrew's clients. You will witness step by step and in detail how Andrew handles a paid portrait shoot.

  • Lesson 16, fundamentals of Portrait Lightings in-studio portrait shoots.

  • Lesson 17, portrait lightings formula that will get you perfect lighting values in every studio portrait shoot.

  • Lesson 18, introduces you to the main 6 classical portrait lights. In this lesson, you will learn Rembrandt Light, its requirements, strength & weaknesses. Also known as Short Lighting.

  • Lesson 19, introduces you to the main 6 classical portrait lights. In this lesson, you will learn the Reverse Rembrandt Light, its requirements, strength & weaknesses. Also known as Broad Lighting.

  • Lesson 20, introduces you to the main 6 classical portrait lights. In this lesson, you will learn the Open & Closed Loop Light, its requirements, strength & weaknesses.

  • Lesson 21, introduces you to the main 6 classical portrait lights. In this lesson, you will learn the famous glamour light known as Butterfly Light, its requirements and strength and weaknesses.

  • Lesson 22, introduces you to the main 6 classical portrait lights. In this lesson, you will learn the Clamshell Light, its requirements, strength & weaknesses.

  • Lesson 23, a summary of all the 6 classic portrait lights, when to use them & when you should switch to another type of lighting style.

  • Lesson 24, teaches you how to match lighting types, styles towards your subjects' various types of face shapes.

  • Lesson 25, teaches you how to deal with slim faces during photoshoots.

  • Lesson 26, teaches you how to deal with oval faces during photoshoots.

  • Lesson 27, teaches you how to deal with symmetrical faces during photoshoots.

  • Lesson 28, in-depth lesson on 3-points and 4-point lightings, their advantages, disadvantages & when to use them correctly and economically.

  • Lesson 29, Course summary & thank you note from the trainer.

  • Lesson 30, Real-Life Business Portrait.

Who this course is for:

  • Beginner

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