Portrait Photography: The Photographer's Guide to Capturing Mood + Emotion

This course will be centered on improving your portrait photography abilities to convey mood, feeling, and emotions. We will do this by exploring how to plan, shoot, and edit original portraits.

Difficulty Level: Introductory

Portrait Photography: The Photographer's Guide to Capturing Mood + Emotion

This course will be centered on improving your portrait photography abilities to convey mood, feeling, and emotions. We will do this by exploring how to plan, shoot, and edit original portraits.

Creative Self Portraits: a Fun Photography Challenge for Self Discovery and Camera Courage

Self portraits even when you are camera shy? This photography class will be fun, creative, exciting and perhaps a bit scary too. You'll make a series of self portraits, using yourself as 'material' to express an idea, a mood and if you're up for it, simply the pure you. There are 30 prompts in total and I am here to support you when things get tough.

Mastering Dynamic Poses: The Ultimate Guide for Artists, Photographers, and Models

Are you tired of stiff and boring characters in your artwork or photography? Do you want to learn how to create dynamic and original poses that bring your subjects to life and improve your storytelling? This class on mastering dynamic poses might be the perfect fit for you.

Advanced Lighting: 3 Ways to Level Up Your Product Photography

“Happy accidents” are great but being able to create intentional drama in your product photography through unique and effective lighting techniques will arm you with the skills to stand out in the field.

Overcoming Creative Block: Restart with Art, Get Inspired, Set Goals, Be Kind to yourself!

In this class, I will help you take the leap of faith back into the world of art. I will show you ways to overcome a creative block of one day or even 10 years and restart with art! (like me!)

Drawing For Painting: Create Outline Drawings From Your Reference Photos

I'm often asked whether you need to be able to draw to become a painter and I know that a lack of confidence in drawing can often be a barrier to creativity. That's why I made this class! I'll show you three simple approaches for creating accurate outline drawings from a reference photograph. With your new skills you’ll spend less time worrying over your drawings and have more time to enjoy your painting process.

Head Drawing Basics / Portrait Drawing & Illustration / Sketching Realistic Faces

This portrait drawing course will teach you how to draw beautiful, realistic portraits that capture the subject's likeness.

Fashion Photography: Using Natural Light For a DIY Shoot

Follow fashion photographer Artu Nepomuceno as he produces and photographs a fashion shoot using only natural light. You will learn different ways to use natural light to your advantage -- from diffusing, to reflecting, when to use them per setting. You will learn how to conceptualize themes for your shoots, and how to create out of the box concepts In addition to natural lighting techniques and conceptualizing procedures, this class will cover some tips and tricks for your gear, producing a team, building chemistry with your model, reviewing your photos, post processing, and everything in between.

Star In Your Own Animated GIF: A Beginners Project In After Effects & Photoshop

This class will walk you step by step through adding a fun layer of animated illustration onto a photographic portrait. This can be exported as a GIF straight from Photoshop (lessons 1-10), or students can also learn how to create a video file using the same assets in After Effects, so the video can be shared on social media. (lessons 11-14)

Fundamentals of Portrait Photography: Using Natural Light to Create Drama

Photograph a subject with irresistible emotion. This 90-minute class from fashion and portrait photographer Justin Bridges goes on-location to reveal how to use light to create a stunning dramatic portrait.

Whether you use a DSLR or iPhone, you'll learn how to prep your location, subject, and settings so that you can fully develop skills in composition, exposure, and styling. To make your portraits truly incredible, Justin also shares his favorite tricks for editing in Lightroom.

Throughout the class, Justin offers alternatives to every technique, making the class perfect for all levels for experience and equipment. This is a class for pros, enthusiasts, and everyone curious about how an incredible portrait comes to life.

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What You'll Learn

Introduction. Fashion photographer Justin Bridges will explain how photographic portraiture can tell stories, and give you skills you can use in a variety of social realms. Justin’s is one of the best online photography courses you’ll find for beginning portrait photographers because he breaks down seemingly complex photographic terminology into simple concepts.