Lessons
Day 1
1Calibrating Your System for Accurate Results
40:07 2Shoot Prep: Workflow & Lighting Setup
17:07 3Shoot: High Key Beauty Portrait
19:13 4Shoot: Hollywood Glamour
17:54 5Student Shoot: Colleen
13:48 6Student Shoot: Andrea
12:27 7Image Review and Q&A
15:46Skin Tone and Black & White Points
27:01 9Image Selection
25:20 10Global Color Correction
21:02 11Retouching Basics
46:12 12Advanced Skin Smoothing Technique
46:36Day 2
13Luminosity vs. Color
14:44 14Shoot: Low Key Dramatic
28:43 15Student Shoot: Ian
11:54 16Student Shoot: Michael
11:20 17Student Shoot: Colleen
03:41 18Shoot: Beauty Light
12:57 19Luminosity Blending in Photoshop
16:07 20Applying Luminosity
12:19 21Color Correction in Lightroom
23:57 22Detailed Retouching
23:55 23Color Space Discussion
19:16 24Darkening and Lightening Skin
21:10 25Spot Treatment
12:20 26Sharpening
29:57 27Compositing
54:51Day 3
28Introduction to Shooting Movement
11:41 29Shoot: Dancer Leaping
10:52 30Students Shooting
44:15 31Shoot: Dancing
14:59 32Student Shoot: Ian and Colleen
08:57 33Shoot: Dancer Portrait
15:49 34Dancer Session Q&A
11:30 35Figure Retouching
10:52 36Liquify Filter
10:16 37Masking and Edges
13:22 38Importing a Background
16:47 39Color Change and Motion Blur
24:45 40Enhancing Color
17:59 41Removing Tattoos and Adding Effects
21:30 42Lee's Photoshop History
21:56 43Final Portrait Edit
19:03Lesson Info
Student Shoot: Ian and Colleen
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l you excellent well thank you so much making me look good up here uh ok anyone else one one more one more person we're not goingto you know so fight amongst yourselves and autumn j morgan images in the chat room says that you are do fantastic and everyone else agreed okay let's switch switch off okay anymore questions? Well, we're switching shooters always questions fashion tv from singapore how would you light her up in a dance studio with miers? What would you change in your light set up to still get your desired image like in an actual club? And I'm a little dance studio, an actual dance studio with mira's well, try and avoid showing the light source in the mirrors that could get tricky. Uh, but, uh, you know, in an actual dance studio, perhaps the reason to be in a dance studio would be to show exactly what the dance do you look like, so be kind of ah ah, really life sort of look and real dance studios have they're lights everywhere and has a very soft sort of thing, so you would necessarily be going for such a high contrast, rym light kind of thing, but it could be done just sort of depends. You really have to be conscious then of the mirrors and you don't want to show your lights or maybe you do I mean, you know, maybe maybe it's ok to do that, maybe put a little have a light flare into the mirror it's worth experimenting with, but I can't really give you unanswered that's going to be valid for every single situation, but I would encourage you just kind of play with that definitely thanks very much. Okay. And chris walt in raleigh, north carolina says highly, I shoot for the carolina ballet and I have found that paying attention to foot position is the best way tio time the shot properly, do you agree? And then what are the other kind of specific points of the body that you're paying the most attention to with dancers? Oh god, um, I am you know, I'm not a dance photography specialist so hard, I'm sure it's hard for me to answer that with any real authority, I'm really just going by my feel he, uh, shot a lot of things I shot something fairly recently for, um dance dance revolution, it's like a video game and the home video, the home version of that has a little controller pad that the dancers dance on course when you're actually playing the game, you look like a total spazz because it's just about hitting the pads but to sell the game and for the packaging we shot reald dancers doing, you know, kind of dancing moves and essentially they were doing what we're doing here I was playing music and they were just they were just inventing moves and dancing and and we got a lot of great action shots um and I'm just sort of trying to anticipate when somebody's going to reach some extension or you know, when they're they're going to take a step out so yes, you know, when the foot hits the floor sometimes that's that's the full extension of the thing even if they're leaping um right when the foot leaves the floor is usually the you know, the peak of the action um it depends on the type of dance, but ballet is great and I'm sure chris there's uh, more of an expert in ballet dance tonight on so, uh, thanks for that and, you know, way move on yeah, we're good at this. You ready? All right. Cue the mood music, autumn by adam nice job so far so I'm actually gonna float that a little bit and get in a little closer. I'm coming probably gonna be shooting waist up and I really liked the lines that you were doing before kind of slowing it down. Um if you bring up your arms kind of bringing down slow, I kind of want to catch, like, strong lines like female, you know? All right, so whenever you're ready yeah, yeah, a little bit slower, all right, whatever your way wait all right, very good
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Luis
Skin tones correction and portraits editing are new to me. This course provides a set of tools for me to improve my portraiture work. Lee doesn't just show you how things are done, but also the reasons for the corrections. The delivery is a bit dry because the topic is quite technical. You can have a break between lessons, if it becomes too overbearing for you. I highly recommend to take this course, if you are planning to do portraits, head shots, or even senior pictures.