Creative Portrait Photography Series: Outdoor Milk Bath (Udemy.com)
Learn how to create stunning 'dreamy water' style images on a budget, including setup, shoot and retouching in Photoshop
Created by: Sandy Dee
Last updated October 2018
What you will learn
- Create pool-style portraits on a small budget - including detailed prop shopping tips
- How to visualize the setup and consider the location
- Know what the best camera settings are for your project, as well as tips for flash
- Posing tips on how to shape the model in a small space
- Understand how to use the light meter
- 3+ hours of Adobe Camera Raw and Photoshop to retouch your images - these tricks will help you in all your future portrait shoots!
How it compares
Against the other 275 rated Udemy courses in Photography on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.3 out of 5higher than 20% of them
- Reviews50#230 of 276 by number of reviews
- Length5.4 hourslonger than 79% of them
- Last updatedOctober 2018earlier than 78% of them
Course Description
Featured Review:
"This tutorial is first-rate! It shows step-by-step the process of doing an outdoor creative water shoot, and is loaded with helpful tips on how to do it (based on first-hand experience). Highly recommended for anyone interested in doing this super-creative type of shot!" - Dave Palmer
Are you looking for fresh inspiration in your beauty and fashion photography?
Do you want to take advantage of the nice weather and bring your photography sessions outdoors?
Do you suffer from a slow summer season and need new ways to attract more clients?
Do you want to create jaw dropping mini sessions to boost your income?
Do you want to stand out from the crowd, wow your clients and attract models with eye-catching photography?
Then this course is perfect for you. Celebrate the summer with a magazine style 'pool shoot' that is playful with a gorgeous feminine yet empowering look! Your clients will feel like top models in the Caribbean - and what's more, creative portrait photography doesn’t have to break the bank. There are no borders to conceptual photography, as we'll show you with inexpensive props and a small outdoor area.
You’ll be amazed at what you can do with just a kiddie pool, bath drops, flowers, milk and other creative props!
You will learn:
Preparing the shoot - location, practical considerations.
Posing tips when the model is lying in the kiddie pool.
Camera settings, using a light meter, flash and natural lighting options.
Fly on the wall view of 3 photoshoot sets - water, colors and flowers, milk 'hot pink'.
3+ hours of Adobe Camera Raw and Photoshop videos to transform the images into stunning works of art!
Do you love working with flash? Natural light? Both?
Sandy and Matt will cover flash techniques and camera settings, as well as the best ways to take advantage of natural light to get the most variety from your shoot.
First, Sandy and Matt take you through the preparation and set up of the shoot, including what props to buy, practical tips on handling posing your model in water, and camera and lighting settings. Then you'll get a fly on the wall view of the shoot that implements all the ideas so you can do exactly the same.
Then Sandy walks through a complete, comprehensive Adobe Camera Raw and Photoshop set of tutorials (over 3 hours) on how to transform the images into amazing works of fine art. At the end, your images will look like they belong in a high fashion magazine and your clients will receive a truly unique style of photography that sets you apart from your competitors.
Whether you are a beginner DSLR photographer or a seasoned pro, you will find a host of tips and tricks that will help you create fantastic images.
This highly practical course shows you a new way of beauty photography - how to create a ‘dreamy water’ pool-style that will be an outstanding addition to your portfolio. If you want to achieve higher sales, and help to think outside the box for your next photoshoot, then this course is for you!
Instructor Details
- 4.3 Rating
50 Reviews
Sandy Dee
Sandy is originally from Germany and studied Photography in London, where she earned a Diploma in Professional Photography. Following her passion for creative conceptual portrait photography, she moved to San Jose, California where she runs stylized portrait workshops, and wrote the book 'Posing Like A Pro' which covers all aspects of posing for the contemporary photographer.
Sandy loves teaching and helping other artists to reach new levels in their technique and creativity! New In 2021: Sandy now also teaches paper crafting. No matter if you want to learn photography, portraiture, photoshop, creating backdrops on a budget, paper crafting, card making, mixed media....Sandy has a class for you. Happy Shooting and Happy Crafting!
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Reviews
By Indra Gehi on 4/18/2020
They are taking to long to explain a single thing, Also, thats complete course on tub photography and their is not any not or description relate with that, Am completely disatisfied with this course
By Ivan Sunden on 9/6/2019
Informative and fun talk about the props needed for a specific type of shoot! Am looking forward to the photoshop side of things as well. Instructor is engaging and enthusiastic, clearly knows her stuff.
By Chadi Wehbe on 9/4/2019
Way too slow so far, wasting a lot of time on things like "don't hurt yourself with warm water", "get someone to help you carry it" and "make sure it fits in your car". Feels a bit like fillers, mostly, so far. Some areas are getting informative and in a good way. I learned a few things but I think the course shouldn't be labeled as for advanced users cause they'd learn very little from it. It's for beginners and almost-advanced photographers at best.
By William Moores on 12/26/2018
A fun and interesting setup. I am a beginner portrait photographer and love Sandy's enthusiastic presentation style. She speaks from a lot of experience and makes it fun to learn and easy to follow.
By Eva Nemet on 12/1/2017
This course takes you through every detail to reproduce this outdoor shoot; I think with all the information I'll be able to set up and do this shoot. The instructor clearly has a lot of fun preparing and running the shoot :)
By Vera Assenberg on 11/19/2017
Fun and interesting descriptions on how to create a swimsuit style photoshoot. Very clear and easy to follow, which will be very helpful in setting it up to follow. Sandy lists out everything you need and how to do it.
By Brian Schumacher on 11/18/2017
I am looking forward to putting these ideas into practice at a shoot. The explanations are perfect for someone looking to follow instructions to get to the point. All props explained deeply and demonstrated clearly!
By Cindy Dupont on 8/9/2017
I'm really loved this course. There is so many things I am learned...Plus the step by step on Photoshop is definitely helpful. I created my own water photos and they turned out great thanks to this course!
By Kenneth Mathes on 8/7/2017
a lot of photoshop
By Dave Palmer on 7/16/2017
This tutorial is first-rate! It shows step-by-step the process of doing an outdoor creative water shoot, and is loaded with helpful tips on how to do it (based on first-hand experience). Highly recommended for anyone interested in doing this super-creative type of shot!
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