Breed Master Class: Advanced Fashion Photography Lighting

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The business of fashion photography is highly competitive and unforgiving. It is vital to have a great knowledge of the tools of the trade in order thrive and produce work at a professional level. Lighting is the essence of photography, and oftentimes an understanding of light and the techniques required to compose a photo with exceptional lighting often differentiates the professionals from the amateurs.

Intermediate Flash Photography

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If you're familiar with the basics of flash or have taken our Introduction to Flash Photography course, it's time to take your skills to the next level. In this course, you'll learn how to use multiple flashes in your images and take beautiful images in all kinds of conditions.
Professional photographer Scott Chanson will teach you the difference between a key light and a fill light, a rim light and a hair light, and how to take beautiful portraits with off-camera flash. Ready to learn how light can unleash your creativity?

Photographing the Night Landscape

When the sun goes down, landscapes take on entirely new personalities. The moon and stars light the sky and transform the landscape below, creating image-making possibilities that are not found in the daytime. In this course, the photographer, takes a nocturnal road trip to illuminate the techniques involved in capturing the nighttime landscape. Filmed on location along the surreal shoreline of the Salton Sea. The course offers real-world examples and insights into a professional landscape photographer's thought process and composition techniques.

Topics include:
Finding compositions
Exposing and focusing at night
Creating an image with reflections
Using long exposures to blur motion
Painting with light
Shooting with a full moon

OneLight Photography Workshop

Disc One

Opening Thoughts :: Exposure Control :: Gear (lights, stands, triggers, etc.) :: Modifiers (Umbrellas, soft boxes, grids, etc.) :: Indoor shoot and then 2 location shoots with the same client. During these shoots I methodically talk through my thinking process and how I am finding exposure and warming up to shooting and working with clients. These are slower paced for teaching purposes.

The Ultimate Course for Fashion and Beauty Photography and Retouching

I'll show you how to avoid common mistakes that photographers often make and guide you through the entire image creation process beginning at the team building and planning stage through to lighting and set setup, all the way to the retouched images in Photoshop. Throughout the lessons we'll explore multiple lighting scenarios, from basic one light configurations, to complex multi-light situations to help you achieve high quality source files to perform your retouching on. We'll cover retouching starting at image selection and discuss what you and your clients will be looking for in a variety of fashion types, as well as showing you how to get the most out of your raw files. Once we dive into Photoshop, I'll take you through the tools and techniques that you need to know to create beautifully textured skin, polished details and pleasing tones. Throughout nearly 10 hours of video instruction and the accompanying interactive eBook we will cover:

Fashion & Beauty Photography Lighting Secrets

On this DVD you will learn:

Beauty Studio Lighting
Get the inside information on how to create those incredible beauty shots with
step-by-step instruction on the precise lighting setups.
Soft Light on Location
Easily create a large softbox or bank light effect on location and get that great studio effect outdoors.
Lighting Panels
This lighting technique and home-made equipment is probably the best kept secret in the industry, find out exactly why!
Soft Dish Techniques