
Welcome to the course on natural light portrait photography with any camera. Engage in the course forum, ask questions, share answers, and provide feedback to help others.
Learn to see and use natural light with minimal gear, using any camera or smartphone, and choose simple lenses like 50mm or 85mm to create natural light portraits.
Find your light with natural, available light across outside and inside soft and hard settings. Move your feet and adjust position to optimize the background and subject.
Learn to distinguish hard light from soft light using small and large light sources. See how soft light softens shadows and smooths skin, while hard light reveals sharp details.
Utilize outside soft light to illuminate portraits, place the subject in light, and note eye shadows and skin exposure. Use leading lines and archways to frame the background.
Harness soft window light to flatter portraits, positioning your subject near a large window, avoiding direct sun, and using simple backgrounds to create warm, catch-lit images.
Learn to harness hard outdoor light for compelling portraits with any camera, using backlight, rim light, and bounced light, with dark backgrounds and candid, movement-rich shots.
Experiment with hard light from a window and ceiling lamps to create bold contrast, rim lighting, and catchlights; move around to place light for candid, powerful black-and-white portraits.
Find simple backgrounds like a clean wall or text backdrop, use soft light and contrast, and apply bouquet and depth of field to blur busy scenes.
Explore complex backdrops to add context and drama to natural light portraits with any camera, using leading lines and selective focus.
Drive posing by prioritizing eye connection, comparing eyes into camera and eyes out of camera, and capturing in-between moments for natural, compelling portraits.
Explore projects showing hard light and soft light for natural light portraits with any camera. Share your outdoor and indoor results, and practice window light and halogen portraits.
Who Am I?
Hi, my name is Mark Timberlake and I have been a commercial photographer for over 6 years and in this course I will share the simple techniques that commercial photographers use in demanding, high pressure environments, to get portraits that tell a story using the light they have available… fast!
*This course is included in the Photography Composition & Portrait Photography Masterclass - so do not purchase this if you have that course!
Beautiful Portraits
We are going to show you how to take beautiful portraits just using the light available, so it does not matter where you are and no matter what the conditions are, you will be able to take compelling images that will wow your family and friends.
Use Natural & Artificial Light
That is both natural light and artificial light outdoors and indoors, so you will learn how to use any light source in your photography and still get interesting and powerful images.
Once you have been through this course you will be able to create compelling and powerful portraits quickly and easily and will understand why you are getting the images that you are capturing and why they work so well.
No Mumbo Jumbo
All of this with as little technical mumbo jumbo as is humanly possible, you can take this course with any camera, so it does not matter if you have a mobile phone, a compact camera or DSLR, this course will help you get the best out of your camera.
Elements Covered:
Here are the elements that will be covered in the course:
Learn what equipment you will need for this course.
Understand the difference between hard light and soft light.
Learn how to use soft light outdoors and soft light indoors.
You will also learn how to use hard light outdoors and soft light indoors.
We will cover how to choose your backgrounds and how to pose your subjects.
All of this in as simple language as possible!
Enroll Now
So enroll now and learn how to take compelling and engaging portraits using just your camera and the light available in your environment and amaze your friends and family with your new found skills!