Portrait Photography with Nonprofessional Models

Overview

“This option is similar to headshot, but we extend the framing is what is called the American plane. People are going to ask you, what do I do with my hands? Here we will see some possibilities. At the end we will see what we can do to close the portrait. What obsesses you? There are photographers who make jump, photographers who take a selfie with the portrayed, how would you like to close your portrait session? How would you like to be remembered, like the photographer who took a picture out of focus, whole body, with a deformed face, screaming, acting etc.? That is why you are going to ask everyone, you will be remembered.”

In this video lesson Catalina Bartolomé addresses the topic: Classic portrait, which is part of the Domestika online course: Portrait Photography with Nonprofessional Models. Learn the techniques to create professional portraits of people who don't know how to pose.

Partial transcription of the video

“CLASSIC PORTRAIT Now, what we are going to do is the classic portrait. It is a frame from the waist up. Here the hands appear, so we will work a little that, like to see how to position them well, but also make some proposals. I understand that for you this is all new, perhaps for some they have already portrayed, but also consider that the experience they are acquiring portrait by portrait is going to add them and is going to give them a lot of information, So exercise. It is important that you make these portraits and don't keep the idea of wanting to make portraits. So you can grab a cou...”

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Course summary for: Portrait Photography with Nonprofessional Models

• Level: Beginner
• 92% positive reviews (109)
• 3430 students
• 4 units
• 15 lessons (2h 21m)
• 11 downloads

• Category

  Photography & Video

• Software

  Adobe Lightroom, Adobe Photoshop

• Areas

  Photography, Portrait Photography, Studio Photography