Portrait Photography with Nonprofessional Models

Portrait photography with inexperienced models

“The more portraits you have, the more experience you will have. One learns from all the people who stand in front of one's camera. I propose that you make at least one portrait of any professional you do not know beforehand, it can be a friend of a friend or someone you contact via Linkedin that you have not seen before. It can be a profession that you don't know anything about, or even one that doesn't attract you at all. It is easy to make a portrait of a person who is famous, with an amazing and cool job. The important thing is to get the incredible thing we all have, all people have something to tell and your task is to tell that story with an image. You will make two headshots, one with a white background and the other with a gray background, or there is also the option of classic portrait (American plane), and finally you will do the plus of creative portrait. I would love to be able to portray an office staff and see how different people respond to the same light and to the same address. Many people will ask you for outdoor portraits with natural light. What we were seeing in the studio can be taken outside with a simple wall that you find. I love studying, but maybe you prefer to work outside and that nobody will find out more than you doing that portrait, so, come on! Camera in hand, to portray and portray. To your neighbor, your doorman, your dentists, your coworking space, all the people who walk in the street are available for you. With this we finish the course, :( but :) for me it is a see you later and a new start, doing this course made me think about my work and I loved giving you tips on what I learned thanks to these years of portraiture. Hopefully the forum will be a space of solidarity and good vibes to continue learning. Sometimes we are insecure to share our best tips, but don't be afraid of that, it is best to develop your style, if you develop it in the most genuine way people will want to portray with you, because there is no objective portrait but millions of possibilities, Each person looking at another is a possible portrait, among thousands. I wait for you in the forum, with doubts, with successes, with mistakes, with failures, with jokes, with enthusiasm, it may take time to answer, but I will see everything you propose. Also do not hesitate to comment on the work of others, in that case the important thing is the warmth of the analysis, of not taking it personally and being careful in what you want to say. For me it is not only if I like it or not, it is better to think if this portrait served the purpose or not, if we are here it is because we want to doubt our methods and continue learning, so let's be careful in our returns. We are connected in this community of Doméstika, but remember that fantastic things happen in the streets and the portrait is an exit to that world, so hopefully this serves to be on the Internet as in the street. Thank you for joining the amazing world of photographic portrait for professionals! ”

Partial transcription of the video

“FINAL PROJECT We reach the last part of the course. The truth gives me a little sadness but I admit that for me the endings enable new beginnings, so hopefully this brings you a new beginning in the portrait. We will review everything we saw in this course, first my presentation. The most important thing for me was my step from not letting myself look to be looked. All my experience as a portraitist and that every person who came across me He left me something. That helped me to think about my job of portraying. My influences One imagines that the influences of photographers are other photo...”

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Course summary for: Portrait Photography with Nonprofessional Models

• Level: Beginner
• 92% positive reviews (110)
• 3492 students
• 4 units
• 15 lessons (2h 21m)
• 11 downloads

• Category

  Photography & Video

• Software

  Adobe Lightroom, Adobe Photoshop

• Areas

  Photography, Portrait Photography, Studio Photography