Beginning Family Portrait Photography: Shoot Like a Pro
What you'll learn
- Easy to follow
- Relaxed, non-techie teaching style
- An understanding of the best camera lenses for portraits
- An understanding general camera settings to use to take portraits
- Learn how to get more/less depth of field
- Ideas for posing your kids for a more attractive composition
- BONUS: Learn how to import images and make simple edits and enhancements to your portraits in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom.
Requirements
- A DSLR camera is recommended, but any point-and-shoot with the ability to adjust settings manually will work. Much of what is covered will apply to any camera, such as lighting and posing. Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is helpful for editing your photos. You can download a free 30-day trial at adobe.
Description
More than 2300 students have enrolled and have left 170+ 5-star, rave reviews.
After taking my photography course, your kids and perhaps even their friends will be begging you to take their portraits too!
What You'll Learn:
How to position your subject indoors and outdoors for the best lighting.
Posing ideas for women, men, teens and younger children.
How to choose the right camera settings for more attractive, professional-looking portraits.
The best types of lenses for portrait photography (for DSLR users).
Background ideas
How to edit your portraits in Adobe Lightroom
This course will show you how to use the available light, without special lighting set-ups, to take amazing portraits of your kids. Outdoors, you'll learn where to position your subject and yourself in relation to the sun for the best lighting. You'll also get tips on taking indoor portraits without using your flash.
You'll learn a basic formula for your camera settings that will help you take better portraits. You'll also get a general understanding of exposure and how aperture, shutter speed and ISO work together.
What you won't get is a lot of super technical stuff. This is a non-technical photography course designed to get you up and going quickly. It's created for parents and others who want to go beyond taking ordinary snapshots and learn how to take better portraits and family photos without a lot of equipment.
We've all taken those photos where the background looks great but your subject's face is so dark you can barely recognize them, or maybe you want to know how pros get the background to look all blurry in portraits. Many people are intimidated by using their DSLR or compact camera's manual settings and just don't know where to start. That Auto Mode is so tempting and easy. But getting out of the Auto Mode will open the door to more creative, professional-looking photos of your kids.
BONUS: You can go a step further and watch over my shoulder as I import and edit photos in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. Lightroom is a popular, relatively inexpensive software program designed specifically for photographers. If you enjoy taking photos, you may want to consider this software. You can get a free trial at Adobe.
With my course you get:
Over 2300 happy students have already taken this course
100+ glowing, 5-star Reviews
Unlimited lifetime course access at no extra cost
All future additional lectures and supplementary material included for free, always
Unconditional, no questions asked, Udemy 30-day money-back guarantee
Your children are growing fast. You don't want another day to go by without capturing memorable photos of them, not just quick smartphone snapshots.
Who this course is for:
- Beginner photo enthusiasts, parents and anyone who wants to learn how to take portraits without complicated lighting setups or extra equipment. DSLR users who are new to using manual settings.
Instructor
- 4.2 Instructor Rating
- 190 Reviews
- 2,495 Students
- 1 Course
Valerie Goettsch loves to teach and help others learn. She designed Taking Family Portraits in Natural Light in a practical, non-technical format with lots of visuals and examples so people can learn at their own speed. She has also produced a series of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom tutorials for beginners, who appreciate her non-techie, simple teaching style. She specializes in teaching introductory courses with a short learning curve so people can get up and running quickly. Valerie plans additional Udemy courses on Lightroom. She is also owner of a website with in-depth reviews of popular photo companies and software and fun creative ideas.