Done Amanda Diaz - Beauty Photography Masterclass

Source: https://www.amandadiazphotography.com/beauty-photography
Learn the basics of Beauty Photography with simple lighting setups, shooting tips and skin retouching in Photoshop.

Envision Yourself...

✔ Create stunning Beauty Shots for your own portfolio, clients and submissions.
✔ Understand a simple yet effective range of various lighting techniques that enhance your subjects features.
✔ Grasp the concept of Beauty Photography and have the skills to use retouching confidently.

What Will You Learn in this Course?

I created this course to help photographers get started in learning the basics of Beauty Photography and its purpose. I will be discussing how to create your own beauty images by learning more about lighting, posing techniques and the general equipment used during a studio-styled beauty shoot. Then we will transition over to Photoshop as you follow along with a provided practice file to edit a beauty image from start to finish.


The Art of Creating Beautiful & Emotion Evoking Images

The power of an image that has the ability to change the way you feel or capture your interest, is solely the power of the photographer, this is one of the biggest draws to Beauty Photography. Learn to become a storyteller.

Beauty Photography Masterclass
Expand your knowledge and learn the basic technical aspects of Beauty Photography from set up to post production- one of the most intimate ways to highlight a subject, putting you on a path to improve your skills or see if this is a career for you.

Course Curriculum Details

• Introduction and Overview to Beauty Photography
  Introduction to the fundamentals of Beauty Photography.
  
  
• Shooting Beauty in Natural Light
  Using a window as one of the easiest, quickest ways to get a beautiful portrait and how to utilize the light.
  
  
• Lighting Setups for Beauty
  Discussing the diverse lighting setups that are most commonly used when shooting Beauty Photography.
  
  
• Shooting Beauty with Beauty Dish
  Working with a beauty dish as a simple setup to achieve a more dramatic look.
  
  
• Using the Beauty Dish with the Honeycomb Grid
  Continue beauty dish lighting with honeycomb grid for more contrast and directional light with these modifiers to create unique and versatile light.
  
  
• Clamshell Lighting With & Without Grid
  Clamshell lighting setup using a grid with the main light source, showing the difference to create flattering, glowing light.
  
  
• Using the Octobox and Emphasis on Posing for Beauty
  Using a simple and inexpensive Octobox for the main light source, producing a soft and flattering look with tips about some of the basic poses used in Beauty Photography.
  
  
• Octobox with Diffuser and Reflector
  We continue to shoot using the Octobox for our main light source, but we will add a white diffuser to soften the light and a reflector to fill in some of the shadows.
  
  
• Using Window Light and Beauty Photos Recap
  Demo shooting while utilizing window light with browner rich skin tones.
  
  
• Post Processing Introduction and Starting the First Image
  Recap of the fundamentals of Beauty Photography as I cull through images discussing my choices that I have selected as my winners.
  
  
• Skin Retouch
  Overview of Photoshop panels setup and first steps to skin and hair cleanup using the healing brush tool and a blank layer.
  
  
• Hair Adjustments
  Simple hair cleanup continued using a blank layer and healing brush.
  
  
• Skin Texture Adjustments
  Continue image cleanup using the frequency separation method.
  
  
• Skin Texture Detail Adjustments
  Using the frequency separation layers to cleanup up the last steps of skin details with the spot healing brush tool.
  
  
• Dodge and Burn to Create Dimension
  Dodge and burn method using curves adjustments to make features pop.
  
  
• Makeup Adjustments & Final Touch Up
  Playing with makeup colours and finishing up the final details.
  
  
• Second Model Skin Retouching
  Initial clean up edit with our 2nd model in natural lighting, using a blank layer in conjunction with the healing brush tool.
  
  
• Second Model Skin Adjustments
  Continue image cleanup using the frequency separation method, preserving detail while fixing imperfections.
  
  
• Second Model Dodge & Burn to Add Skin Dimension
  Dodge and burn method using curves adjustments to create more depth in flat lighting.