Beauty Photography Masterclass Information

Beauty Photography Masterclass is designed to equip photographers with the essential skills and knowledge needed to excel in beauty photography.

Learn how to use your camera using the basic essentials needed to take professional shots. There are a lot of intricacies and options on your camera, it can be confusing at first. Learn what you need to know for your own photography to get results without the confusion.

What You’ll Learn In Beauty Photography Masterclass

1. Introduction and Overview to Beauty Photography
   • Introduction to the fundamentals of Beauty Photography.
2. Shooting Beauty in Natural Light
   • Using a window as one of the easiest, quickest ways to get a beautiful portrait and how to utilize the light.
3. Lighting Setups for Beauty
   • Discussing the diverse lighting setups that are most commonly used when shooting Beauty Photography.
4. Shooting Beauty with Beauty Dish
   • Working with a beauty dish as a simple setup to achieve a more dramatic look.
5. Using the Beauty Dish with the Honeycomb Grid
   • Continue beauty dish lighting with honeycomb grid for more contrast and directional light with these modifiers to create unique and versatile light.
6. Clamshell Lighting With & Without Grid
   • Clamshell lighting setup using a grid with the main light source, showing the difference to create flattering, glowing light.
7. Using the Octobox and Emphasis on Posing for Beauty
   • Using a simple and inexpensive Octobox for the main light source, producing a soft and flattering look with tips about some of the basic poses used in Beauty Photography.
8. Octobox with Diffuser and Reflector
   • We continue to shoot using the Octobox for our main light source, but we will add a white diffuser to soften the light and a reflector to fill in some of the shadows.
9. Using Window Light and Beauty Photos Recap
   • Demo shooting while utilizing window light with browner rich skin tones.
10. Post Processing Introduction and Starting the First Image
    • Recap of the fundamentals of Beauty Photography as I cull through images discussing my choices that I have selected as my winners.
11. Skin Retouch
    • Overview of Photoshop panels setup and first steps to skin and hair cleanup using the healing brush tool and a blank layer.
12. Hair Adjustments
    • Simple hair cleanup continued using a blank layer and healing brush.
13. Skin Texture Adjustments
    • Continue image cleanup using the frequency separation method.
14. Skin Texture Detail Adjustments
    • Using the frequency separation layers to cleanup up the last steps of skin details with the spot healing brush tool.
15. Dodge and Burn to Create Dimension
    • Dodge and burn method using curves adjustments to make features pop.
16. Makeup Adjustments & Final Touch Up
    • Playing with makeup colours and finishing up the final details.
17. Second Model Skin Retouching
    • Initial clean up edit with our 2nd model in natural lighting, using a blank layer in conjunction with the healing brush tool.
18. Second Model Skin Adjustments
    • Continue image cleanup using the frequency separation method, preserving detail while fixing imperfections.
19. Second Model Dodge & Burn to Add Skin Dimension
    • Dodge and burn method using curves adjustments to create more depth in flat lighting.

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