Overview
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Learn the essentials for making great business portraits, from lighting and camera choices to interacting with your subjects and helping them look their best in front of the camera.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- Be sure to watch my other course
- Who uses headshots
- Headshots not snapshots
- Finding your style and mastering it
- Minimums: Long lens, hotshoe, resolution, and picture size
- Flattering lenses: Kit, 85mm f/1.8, and distance from subject
- Don't use a smartphone
- Why a tripod?
- Essential tripod features
- How to use a tripod for portraiture
- Positioning your lights
- Types: Continuous, flash, and speedlight
- Bigger is better
- Flash vs. speedlight advantages
- Light modifiers
- Backdrop vs. available
- Choosing your backdrop
- Support and safety tips
- Two situations, same requirements
- Makeup and blotters
- What to wear
- Eyeglasses
- Simple poses
- Choosing the side of the face
- Camera height and tripod use
- Review pictures with subject
- Things to say, look at toes, Hurleyisms
- Shoot from start to finish
- Finish strong: Your job isn't over
- Cull with hindsight
- Use color checker and white balance targets
- Retouching in Lightroom and Perfectly Clear
- Batch retouching
- Delivery
- Next steps
