- Welcome to the course!
- Introduction
- What is a Camera?
- The 3 Basic Controls
- Quick Quiz
- What camera should you use?
- Practice Photos
- Try this out
- Posing
- Mirror Work
- The TWO Kinds of Light
- Quick Practical
- The 3 Steps to a Portrait
- Go do it
- Basic Photo Editing
- Editing Practice
- The NEXT LEVEL (using FLASH)
- Now get this...
- More about EDITING
- Show me your results!
What you'll learn
- Actually UNDERSTAND your camera! Know what you DO and DON'T need for great photos (and you don't need much)
- How to POSE people simply and easily
- Know why LIGHTING makes people look their best and how to really USE it
- How to EDIT photos to make them look epic!
- The 4 SIMPLE STEPS to great portraits
Description
The fastest and easiest way to go from NO knowledge of photography, to knowing the essentials to create great portraits NOW! From basic camera controls, to posing, to most importantly: the light! Then how to enhance them further through editing. Practice these simple steps to be creating dynamic people-photos from here on out!
The philosophy on teaching here is KEEP IT SIMPLE. No effort is made to sound complex or "expert" just because big words can be used which no one will understand. The true test of a course is CAN IT BE APPLIED to real life. Thus, no BS, no long speeches, just you, me, casual and real, the whole way through. By the end of the course if there is still something you feel you haven't understood or cannot use, then you can email me direct and I will take the time to clarify it for you.
There is plenty of false information out there about photography, cameras, and HOW TO DO IT. This course is comprised of just the BASICS which will WORK every time. And from these fundamentals you can then easily improve to become as skilled as you like. But don't forget, it should be FUN too. So let's get to it!
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About the instructors
- 4.47 Calificación
- 2119 Estudiantes
- 1 Cursos
Luke Ayers
Pro Photography Teacher
Self-taught, real-talking photographer and filmmaker working professionally in the visual arts for over a decade. Australian-born, worked internationally for over 200 companies. Enjoys seeing others when they, too, realise they can do it. Photography ISN'T DIFFICULT to learn.
"If you can't understand and apply it, then the teacher hasn't done their job correctly."
Student feedback
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Amazingly simple
LOVE his teaching technique!
Loved this course, so simplified and easy to undertand and follow. Looking forward to applying what I have learned.
Nailed it with the basics. I believe I will never get confuse about these settings in future.
i loved the 3 steps to a portrait chapter. it consists of posing examples, lighting considerations and compositional ideas. The rest i already knew as i have taken other photography courses before. the rest focuses on types of lighting, photo editing using lightroom and using flash. Photo editing chapter was just the basics of adjusting exposures etc. good for absolute beginner. Flash chapter shows how important it is to modify the flash with a modifier.
Great for free.