How to Shoot Studio Quality Portraits on a Shoestring Budget
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How to shoot studio quality portraits on a shoestring budget
REBECCA MB. PEARSON, PHOTOGRAPHERwww.rmbpearson.photography
About MeI find joy when I can tell people’s stories from behind a camera lens and I have been doing this since my dad handed me a Kodak Brownie Reflex at the age of 10. I started my career in journalism as a beat reporter. Along with my pen and notebook, I always had my camera with me, always ready to take a snapshot of a story that I am writing about. I transitioned into photojournalism about five years ago. My work has appeared in the Bucks County Courier Times (PA), as well as Sunshine Artist Magazine (FL), TimeOut New York (NY), East Village Times (NY), and several other publications. My fine art photography has also been on exhibit at the Soho Photo Gallery, The Bar Gallery in the Lower East Side, the Kimmel Center at NYU, and The Darkroom Gallery in Vermont.I am a graduate of Rider University in New Jersey with a Master of Arts degree from NYU. It’s easy to take a cellphone selfie. But if you want your story told through the lens of a camera by someone with experience, then let’s talk.
Key Lessons• Lighting tools• Lighting and light sources• Basic techniques
• Focus• Framing and Composing• Interacting with the model
• Post processing• Hands-on shooting• Critiques
Lighting Tools
Lighting Tools: The Reflector Disk
Clamp Spotlight with Reflector
Lighting Kit
Basic Lighting Tools
Key lesson: Understanding light
Key lesson: Understanding light
Using a spotlight
Using Flash for Strobe Lighting
Flash as Strobe
Which to use?
Outdoors
Outdoor Portraits
Tunnel Lighting
Tunnel Lighting
Hair lights
Hair lights
Lighting Challenges and Solutions• Try and move your subject to the shade• Use your handy reflector disk – have the model hold it for you.• Use flash as a last resort only
Before Flash With Flash Fill
Before Flash With Flash Fill
Techniques
Focus on the eyes
Zoom In and Frame the full face
Compose in thirds
Direction
Unposed
Unposed
Post Processing
A quick word about photo editing
Before and After
We’ll take a 10-minute break then LET’S SHOOT SOME PORTRAITS