Artistic Portrait Photography Information
Artistic Portrait Photography by Jingna Zhang is a course designed to help photographers create compelling fine art portrait photography through a creative photoshoot process.
Your lens is your paintbrush.
Create compelling fine art portrait photography by means of a creative photoshoot. Beginning with the basics of photography, Jingna will walk you through all the steps in production, lighting, retouching and post-production.
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What You’ll Learn In Artistic Portrait Photography?
Lesson 1: Photography Basics
Starting with the fundamentals, Jingna will walk you through the equipment required for this class, an introduction to photography and camera basics, as well as the key elements of photography important in image creation.
Lesson 2: Equipment and Lighting
With an understanding of key photography basics, in this lesson, Jingna will walk you through a range of studio essentials, a variety of lighting tools and their effects, as well as the characteristics of light when positioned and used in different environments and settings.
Lesson 3: Concepts and Casting
With equipment and lighting covered, Jingna will now show you her steps in producing a creative photoshoot. Starting from concept-creation, you will learn about shaping your own ideas, searching and casting for models, and prop and styling item sourcing.
Lesson 4: Team Building and Planning
In this lesson, you will learn about team-building and the roles of your team members, what to do when faced with production problems, and understand the photographer’s duties required to finish pre-production.
Lesson 5: Photoshoot
With preparations completed and equipment chosen, in this lesson, Jingna guide you through the whole process of a shoot from beginning to end. Starting with hair and makeup preparations, to lighting setup, directing your model, and finally also tips on mistakes to avoid and important points to remember.
Lesson 6: Post-Production
We enter post-production and begin the final phase of image creation. Jingna will discuss file management in post-production and explain one of the most important steps in her photography process—image selection and color processing.
Lesson 7: Retouching
Almost there! In this lesson, Jingna will show you her approach and process for retouching, from cleaning up the image, to skin work and details that matter.
Lesson 8: Marketing Your Work
Your image is done, what do you do with it after? In this final lesson, Jingna will highlight important points of branding and marketing. You will learn about setting brand goals, marketing channels, portfolio preparations, and tips for continuing photography in the future.
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