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Portrait Photography - classic studio lighting photography styles

4.5
31 reviews

Created by: Mark Timberlake

Last updated June 2019

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What you will learn

  • 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

How it compares

Against the other 275 rated Udemy courses in Photography on CourseDuck:

  • Rating4.5 out of 5higher than 44% of them
  • Reviews31#257 of 276 by number of reviews
  • Length1.9 hoursshorter than 66% of them
  • Last updatedJune 2019earlier than 72% of them

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Course Description

Photography - Classic Portrait Photography

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

*This course is included in the Photography Composition & Portrait Photography Masterclass - so do not purchase this if you have that course!

Portrait Photography:

Do you want to take beautiful images of people?

Portrait photography is one of least understand 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 You Will Learn:

In this course you will learn the basic lighting techniques that professional portrait photographers use and the basic equipment required.

You will learn the difference between a soft light source and a hard light source and how that affects your images.

You will learn the classic lighting patterns professional portrait photographers use and the correct lighting terminology for portraiture.

You will learn how to create beautiful yet simple portraits with simple flash photography on a tight budget.

We will also teach you how to prepare your subjects, how to pose their bodies and how to pose their faces.

We will also discuss the basics of choosing a lens for portraiture.

Full 100% Money Back Guarantee:

Before we go any further, let me just say, I don't want you to be disappointed.

If you don't like the course for any reason, you can request a full refund in the first 30 days, no questions asked.

Join Me:

So join me on the other side and learn how to create simple yet beautiful portraits with your DSLR camera...
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Instructor Details

Mark Timberlake

Mark runs an online training company called SME Heroes, which specializes in training on all things to do with sales, online marketing, management, and his personal passion entrepreneurship.

He has extensive experience with online business in various forms over the last 20 years and loves to share his hard-won lessons and techniques for online business success.

He runs online retail businesses, a video course training company, and a book publishing business.

This means he has a deep breadth of experience which comes through in his courses which are always designed to be easy to understand and to pass on the skills he has learned in a practical way.

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Reviews

4.5

31 ratings on Udemy

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By Magda Kaczmarska on 1/21/2021

Well explained and easy to follow. The instructor breaks up the lighting set ups into simple steps.

By Dean H Johnson on 1/10/2021

Excellent Detailed Technical Course

By Tremayne Copeland on 6/14/2020

Love the example he gives when showing how light hits.

By Pankaj Dubey on 12/30/2016

I have watched a few of these lighting courses but some details of what forms the loop, and why the open and closed etc , what is actually a butterfly and other details are much clear and detailed in this one. The pdf files are helpful as well. The language is not flowery but to the point and practical.

By Henrique Rocha Nobre on 12/30/2016

I'm not an english language native and I have some vocabulary difficulties to understand all the words in the lectures, but I liked very much of the 3D, the PDFs and the way Mark Timberlake teaches. I was looking for a basic portrait photography course which taught the classic lighting patterns because in my native language (portuguese) there's nothing basic, well explained in a simple, direct way, without secrets and really good to learn like this one. I'm very satisfied with this course.

By Al on 8/31/2016

great for beginners and great as a refresher for the basics! well done

By David Bowman on 5/5/2016

The presentation is a little dry, but the course content is spot on. This is an outstanding course on posing. Mark Timberlake explains very clearly how to perform the setups of all styles of portrait photography. He uses Set.a.light 3D Studio to illustrate his examples (rather than using live models, and has created a series of PDF files from the software. The instruction and the PDF files are of tremendous value to the portraiture student. From the beginner to the advance photographer, this is one of the courses that I enthusiastically support.

By Diane Bell on 3/2/2016

Love this course and learned a lot. The PDF documents are fantastic and very useful. I highly recommend this course to any budding portrait photographer...even if you just want to improve and impress your family and friends with awesome portraits. This is the place to start.

By Shahram Pourali on 2/9/2016

The use of 3D studio has made it much easier for student to understand the angles of light sources.

By Teresa Trimm on 9/13/2015

Thank you Mark! You have managed to put an incredible amount of information of the various parts of photography together in an easy to understand way and using the software is, as you Brits say, Brilliant!! It really helps with the understanding what you did to get what look.

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  • Updated: icon June 2019
  • Level: Beginner Beginner
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