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Portrait Photography for Beginners
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1,671 students

Portrait Photography for Beginners

Learn How to Shoot Professional Looking Portraits by Mastering All the Elements That Go Into Shooting a Pro Portrait
Created byKush Sharma
Last updated 1/2026
English
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What you'll learn

  • Understanding all the different elements that go into making a great portrait shot
  • Taking their portraits from basic looking portraits to professional looking ones
  • The correct way to frame your portrait shots
  • The correct settings to use for portrait photography
  • The correct way to enhance the blur in the background
  • The correct lighting to use
  • The correct lens to use for portraits
  • The correct way to compose your portraits
  • The correct way to choose color schemes for your portrait shot
  • The correct way to position yourself, the background and the model
  • The correct way to add drama to your shots using an off-camera flash

Course content

13 sections • 29 lectures • 4h 20m total length

  • Introduction1:31

    Explore portrait photography for beginners by learning the five essential elements of a portrait and a level-based approach, with warm-up portraits to set expectations for the course.

  • The 5 Elements That Make a Portrait6:28

    Discover the five key portrait-building elements—gear, settings and composition, ambiance, the subject, and editing—along with practical tips on lighting, background, and post-processing to elevate your shots.

  • Examples of Different Portraits and Analyzing Them7:35

    Review varied portrait examples to identify what went wrong and how gear, lighting, and ambiance influence results, then apply post-processing to refine portraits.

  • The Approach Which We Will be Taking in This Course2:54

    Adopt a level-based approach to portrait photography, starting with a bare minimum level one shot using the 18-55 kit lens, then progressively add gear, settings, and composition.

Requirements

  • This course is perfect for complete beginners. Just a very basic knowledge of settings like Aperture, Shutter Speed and ISO can be beneficial but not compulsory.

Description

Do you want to master the art of Portrait Photography?

Then you've come to the right place!

I'm Kush Sharma, a professional photography and videography instructor. In the past 10 years, I have taught the art of photography and video making to over 50,000 people.

And in this detailed course I will be teaching you how to take your portraits to the next level.

We will be taking a level-based approach in this course, which means that we will start from a basic Level 1 portrait and then work our way up to a professional looking Level 10 portrait.

We will be focusing on the following 5 elements which make up a portrait:

  • The Gear

  • Settings and Composition

  • The Ambience

  • The Model

  • Editing and Post-Processing

As we move up the levels, we will keep changing and improving the characteristics of the five elements mentioned above.

This will make you sure you learn everything in a step-by-step and sequential manner.

Here are just some of the things you will be learning in this course:


  • The correct way to frame your portrait shots

  • The correct settings to use for portrait photography

  • The correct way to enhance the blur in the background

  • The correct lighting to use

  • The correct lens to use for portraits

  • The correct way to compose your portraits

  • The correct way to choose color schemes for your portrait shot

  • The correct way to position yourself, the background and the model

  • The correct way to add drama to your shots using an off-camera flash

  • And so much more

We will also spend a considerable time in understanding which lens to buy according to your budget. This will be done by showing you the different types of portraits you can get with the usage of different lens.

We  will also be discussing about some important accessories that are needed for portraits.

This really is a one-stop course that is only focused on one thing - improving your skill of portrait photography.

By the time you finish this course, you will be someone who will be capable of taking a professional looking portrait because you will understand all the things that go into shooting a great portrait.

So don't wait any longer.

Sign up right now and let's get started straight away!


Who this course is for:

  • This course is for people want to learn how to shoot professional looking portraits.

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