Photography - Classic portrait photography

Learn the classic studio lighting photography styles and skills that a professional portrait photographer uses.

Portrait photography:

Do you want to take beautiful images of people? Portrait photography is one of the least understood disciplines in photography. Because most photographers have never been taught the basics.

Good portrait photography:

Good portraiture is as much science as it is an art form. Once you understand a few simple principles you will be able to take classic beautiful portraits of your subjects.

These principles will move you away from amatuer portraiture and move you towards professional portraiture where you will understand how lighting patterns work and what the classic lighting conventions are.

State of the art virtual studio:

This course was created using a virtual photography studio. All elements are designed to be simple and easy to visually comprehend and understand using a virtual 3d environment.

You will instantly be able to see the lighting patterns we are teaching and how the lights create those patterns. All the virtual studio sets come with PDF downloads so you can set your own lighting to match the lesson sets.

What will you learn in this course?

• Basic lighting techniques that professional portrait photographers use
• Basic equipment required
• Difference between a soft light source and a hard light source and how that affects your images
• Classic lighting patterns professional portrait photographers use
• The correct lighting terminology for portraiture
• How to create beautiful yet simple portraits with simple flash photography on a tight budget
• How to prepare your subjects, how to pose their bodies and faces
• Basics of choosing a lens for portraiture
• Understand the classic lighting patterns that professional portrait photographers use
• Understand how to position their flashes so that they can light their subjects properly
• Understand how to pose their subjects with classic posing techniques
• Understood portraiture terminology and techniques

• This course is for amateur photographers who want to learn flash photography and portraiture techniques
• This is not for advanced photographers who already understand the classic lighting patterns