Portrait Photography: From Art Direction to Editing
The Photo Shoot
A course by Rayan Nohra , Photographer
About the video: The Photo Shoot
Overview
“Now we can start the photo shoot! In this lesson, I will give you some tips and directions to establish a good interaction with the model and so that the session goes well, with respect and confidence. I will then move on to practice and make my portraits.”
In this video lesson Rayan Nohra addresses the topic: The Photo Shoot, which is part of the Domestika online course: Portrait Photography: From Art Direction to Editing. Discover studio photography techniques to capture striking portraits, from directing the model to editing in Lightroom.
Partial transcription of the video
“The photo shoot After establishing your artistic direction and prepared your equipment, let's move on to the most important step: taking portraits. It is very important to understand that the final result will depend the energy you put into the shoot. It's an interaction, it's not just one way. We photograph someone who is photographed. It's an exchange that we must maintain in the most respectful and friendly way possible, not to mention the fact that if you tell someone's story through a portrait, it is important to have communicated before all this with this person. You need to build tru...”
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Course summary for: Portrait Photography: From Art Direction to Editing
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Category
Photography & Video -
Software
Adobe Lightroom -
Areas
Fine-Art Photography, Interior Photography, Photographic Lighting, Photography, Photography Post-production, Portrait Photography

Rayan Nohra
A course by Rayan Nohra
Rayan Nohra has been taking pictures since he was a young teenager. His travels, his friends, his daily life as a high school student... Nothing escaped his shutter. After his first paid shots for Parisian thrift stores, he became an assistant to an art director before starting his own business in photography.
He works mainly for the editorial and advertising sectors and has already collaborated with Paco Rabanne and magazines like Numéro and Barbes. He has also photographed personalities from all walks of life, from painter Takashi Murakami to poet Sonny Hall and rapper 6lack.
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