The Ultimate Guide to Portrait Photography

Learn how to use shoot portraits beautifully.

With 30 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 shoot 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.

• Lesson 1, introduces the topics & sub-topics covered by this E-Learning course.

• Lesson 2, 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.

• Lesson 3, detailed and extra tips of Comfortable Side.

• Lesson 4, teaches you how to pose subjects’ arms, hands, fingers, shoulders, and heads.

• Lesson 5, 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.

• Lesson 6, how you can always make your subjects younger, slimmer, and taller in every photo shoot.

• Lesson 7, you will learn how to get perfect and correct Portrait Croppings (such as Long Shot, Medium Shot, Close-Up, ECU, CU, etc).

• Lesson 8, 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.

• Lesson 9, 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.

• Lesson 10, camera settings that will make very portrait shoot effortless and technically correct in sharpness and exposure.

• Lesson 11, a detailed step by step real-life shoot of how to shoot an indoor portrait using Natural Lighting.

• Lesson 12, a detailed step by step real-life shoot of how to shoot an indoor portrait using Flash and added lights.

• Lesson 13, discusses the suitable camera lenses for portrait shoots and why some lens are suitable and some lens will make subjects look fat and distorted.

• Lesson 14, teaches you how to set your camera to attain correct and natural-looking colors for portraits. You will be exposed to the basics of digital color rendering.

• Lesson 15, 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.

• Lesson 16, fundamentals of Portrait Lightings in-studio portrait shoots.

• Lesson 17, portrait lightings formula that will get you perfect lighting values in every studio portrait shoot.

• Lesson 18, introduces you to the main 6 classical portrait lights. In this lesson, you will learn Rembrandt Light, its requirements, strength & weaknesses. Also known as Short Lighting.

• Lesson 19,introduces you to the main 6 classical portrait lights. In this lesson, you will learn the Reverse Rembrandt Light, its requirements, strength & weaknesses. Also known as Broad Lighting.

• Lesson 20,introduces you to the main 6 classical portrait lights. In this lesson, you will learn the Open & Closed Loop Light, its requirements, strength & weaknesses.

• Lesson 21,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.

• Lesson 22,introduces you to the main 6 classical portrait lights. In this lesson, you will learn the Clamshell Light, its requirements, strength & weaknesses.

• Lesson 23,a summary of all the 6 classic portrait lights, when to use them & when you should switch to another type of lighting style.

• Lesson 24,teaches you how to match lighting types, styles towards your subjects’ various types of face shapes.

• Lesson 25,teaches you how to deal with slim faces during photoshoots.

• Lesson 26,teaches you how to deal with oval faces during photoshoots.

• Lesson 27,teaches you how to deal with symmetrical faces during photoshoots.

• Lesson 28,in-depth lesson on 3-points and 4-point lightings, their advantages, disadvantages & when to use them correctly and economically.

• Lesson 29,Course summary & thank you note from the trainer.

• Lesson 30, Real-Life Business Portrait.

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