penelope1983@timboyerphotography.com
808-965-7094By attending an online class, you will learn how to:
- create portraits in a professional studio;
- conduct a photo session in the open air;
- How to process your works professionally.
This photography course is designed for amateur photographers who want to master professional portrait photography in the studio and in the open air from scratch.
Features of the course “Portrait Photography”:
- Small groups of up to 6 people, which allows for individual work with each student.
- The main emphasis is on practical lessons and analysis of the results with further correction!
- The course consists of 18 online lessons, 2 of which are independent credit classes;
- Everyone will get a chance to do the required amount of work from the best possible angles!
- All students are provided with additional tutorial literature and electronic portrait photography checklists. Friendly and almost home-like atmosphere.
- Low cost of tuition in a mini-group.
By studying on this course you will learn:
- Professionally use constant and pulsed artificial as well as natural light;
- Use reflectors, diffusers, external portable and studio flashes for modeling light;
- basics of developing and creating staged and genre portraits;
- basics of working with non-professional models;
- the basics of posing in portrait photography;
- create modern and contemporary portraits and portraits in the Art Nouveau style;
- calculate the cost of photography;
- beautifully process the result;
- competently plan your work;
- To promote your services.
As a result of the portrait photography course:
- you will form your first professional portfolio;
- You will be able to declare yourself as a professional photographer;
- start earning money in photography.
Each lesson includes:
- a short theoretical part;
- An extended theoretical part in an online format;
- Practical exercises in photography (basic time);
- Parsing of the results in online format (leaving more time for practice).
A brief lesson plan:
Part 1. Studio portrait photography.
Lesson 1. Introduction to studio portrait photography from idea to realization. Composition in portrait photography.
Basics of lighting modeling in the studio.
Practice: single-source, soft lighting for artistic portraits.
Lesson 2: Theory and practice: working through an idea for a portrait, photography with two light sources. Features of work with the model, basics of pose.
Lesson 3: Theory and practice: working out the idea of a portrait, taking pictures with three light sources. High key portraits. Features of work with the model, basics of posing.
Lesson 4: Theory and practice: hard lighting, working out the idea of the portrait, taking pictures. Portraits in a low key. Features of work with the model, basics of posing.
Lesson 5 Theory and practice: creating portraits in a low key with soft lighting.
Lesson 6. Practice of using strip boxes to create artistic images.
Lesson 7. Practice: using colored lighting to create artistic images.
Lesson 8. Independent work on the creation of an artistic portrait (students independently take the studio and do the credit work).
Lesson 9. Practice: freeze-framing in portrait photography. Summing up the first part of the course.
Part 2. Portrait photography in the open air (outdoors and indoors).
(Depending on weather conditions, the sequence of lessons may change).
Lesson 1: Basic theory: basics of taking pictures outside the studio, how to set up your camera.
Lenses and filters for artistic photography.
Using an external flash as an auxiliary light source, reflectors and diffusers.
Practice: taking pictures, from the idea to the embodiment of the author’s idea.
Lesson 2: Practice. Classes for photographing portraits in an urban environment.
Lesson 3: Practice taking portrait photos indoors.
Lesson 4: Practice. Portrait photography in a park area.
Lesson 5. Practice. Taking genre portraits indoors.
Lesson 6. Practice. Genre portrait photography at a trip.
Lesson 7 Practice. Shooting group portraits.
Lesson 8. Practice. Independent field lesson in portrait photography on the basis of working out your own idea of an artistic portrait image.
Lesson 9. Summing up the course. Presentation of work on the creation of an artistic portrait. Presentation of certificates.
Part 3. Photographic processing in Adobe Photoshop.
The course consists of 22 parts with lessons and assignments.
Training is conducted online on a free schedule, with inspection of works and consultations from the teacher.
You will learn everything you need for high-quality processing of any photos, including portraits, from light and color correction to retouching and much more.