Learn how to use shoot portraits beautifully.
With 29 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 shoots 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.
Topics covered in this E-Learning Portrait Photography Course:
- Course Introduction Of Portrait Photography
Introduces the topics & sub-topics covered by this E-Learning course.
- The Comfortable Side
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.
- Important Tips On Comfortable Side
Detailed and extra tips of Comfortable Side.
- How to pose arms, hands, fingers & head
Teaches you how to pose subjects' arms, hands, fingers, shoulders and heads.
- Posing Men & Women
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.
- Younger, Slimmer & Taller Subjects
Yow you can always make your subjects younger, slimmer and taller in every photo shoot.
- Portrait Croppings, you will learn how to get perfect and correct Portrait Croppings (such as Long Shot, Medium Shot, Close-Up, ECU, CU, etc).
- Subject's Actual Fronts
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.
- Coded Smiles
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.
- Camera Settings For Portraits
Camera settings that will make very portrait shoot effortless and technically correct in sharpness and exposure.
- Indoor Natural Lighting Portraits
A detail step by step real-life shoot of how to shoot indoor portrait using Natural Lighting.
- Indoor Portraits with Flash
A detail step by step real-life shoot of how to shoot indoor portrait using Flash and added lights.
- Suitable Lenses For Portraits
Discusses the suitable camera lenses for portrait shoots and why some lens are suitable and some lens will make subjects look fat and distorted.
- Camera's Color Settings For Portraits
Teaches you how to set your camera to attain correct and natural looking colors for portraits. You will be exposed to basic of digital color rendering.
- A Real-Life Studio Shoot With A Client
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.
- The Fundamentals Of Portrait Lights
Fundamentals of Portrait Lightings in studio portrait shoots.
- Portrait Lights Power Formula
Portrait lightings formula that will get you perfect lighting values in every studio portrait shoot.
- 6 Classic Portrait Lights - Rembrandt Light
Introduces you to the main 6 classical portrait lights. In this lesson, you will learn the Rembrandt Light, its requirements, strength and weaknesses. Also known as Short Lighting.
- 6 Classic Portrait Lights - Reversed Rembrandt Light
Introduces you to the main 6 classical portrait lights. In this lesson, you will learn the Reverse Rembrandt Light, its requirements, strength and weaknesses. Also known as Broad Lighting.
- 6 Classic Portrait Lights - Open & Closed Loop Light
Introduces you to the main 6 classical portrait lights. In this lesson, you will learn the Open & Closed Loop Light, its requirements, strength and weaknesses.
- 6 Classic Portrait Lights - Butterfly Light
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.
- 6 Classic Portrait Lights - Clamshell Light
Introduces you to the main 6 classical portrait lights. In this lesson, you will learn the Clamshell Light, its requirements, strength and weaknesses.
- 6 Classic Portrait Lights - Summary
A summary of all the 6 classic portrait lights, when to use them and when you should switch to another type of lighting style.
- Lightings & Types Of Faces - Lightings & Human Faces
Teaches you how to match lighting types, styles towards your subjects' various types of face shapes.
- Lightings & Types Of Faces - Slim Faces
Teaches you how to deal with slim faces during photoshoots.
- Lightings & Types Of Faces - Oval Faces
Teaches you how to deal with oval faces during photoshoots.
- Lightings & Types Of Faces - Symmetrical Faces
Teaches you how to deal with symmetrical faces during photoshoots.
- 4 Point & 3 Point Lightings
In-depth lesson on 3-points and 4-point lightings, their advantages, disadvantages and when to use them correctly and economically.
- Summary
Course summary and thank you note from trainer.
- Real-Life Business Portrait
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.
- Broad Light & Short Light Put To Actual Tests
As part of this course's expanding syllabus, we are happy to bring you a new video lesson, for all our All Account holders and subscribers of this E-Learning course.
In this lesson, Andrew answers a viewer's write-in about how lighting can really make someone looking fatter/rounder to slimmer. Andrew puts Rembrandt Lighting to true practical tests with model Demi, going from Broad Side to the Short Side.
- Lighters' Cheat Sheet For Portraits
- Reversed Rembrandt Lighting
Enjoy learning this classic lighting style.
