Portrait Photography: Creative Tips & Ideas for Great Images

Course details

So, you like taking portraits, thats great, but how happy are you with the results and could you do better?

In this course youll learn many of the tips and tricks that professional photographers use for creating stunning portraits, and in a varying assortment of environments, both inside and outside.

At the end of the course youll be armed with so many ideas, that youll no longer need to worry about freezing up, or wondering what to do next with your subjects.

Learn the fundamentals of portrait lighting and lighting patterns
Discover new ways of taking photos of individuals on location in live sessions
Learn my relaxed methods for taking photos of families and children in live sessions
Laugh at my 17 tips for getting great expressions from families and children
Learn how I pose people to make them look relaxed
Watch and learn from my live maternity sessions with an 8 month pregnant mum-to-be.
Discover some specialist ideas for amazing portraits

Content and Overview

Suitable for beginners, intermediates and even advanced photographers, youl learn the fundamentals of portrait photography along with many tips and ideas for adding drama and creativity to your portraits.

Rather than just using paid models, this course also has live sessions with friends, and families with their children. Some of these are typical location sessions where we just walk around in parks taking photos.

This is an extremely varied course demonstrating both natural light and off-camera flash portraits, with some specialist ideas that you can easily replicate, plus many tips on composition

Youll see how I interact with people to make them feel more comfortable, which in turn helps to get better expressions.

All videos on this course are downloadable

On completing this course youll have the knowledge, know how and confidence to tackle many portrait scenarios.