Lynda - Portrait Photography: Sports Portraits

https://www.lynda.com/Lightroom-tutorials/Shooting-Awesome-Sports-Portraits/418838-2.html

How do you synthesize years of dedication and hours of practice in a single photograph? Watch this course to learn how to create sports portraits that capture the prowess and competitive spirits of athletes, young and old. Robert Vanelli shows how to light, shoot, and edit sport portraits with an "edgy" look, using a portable studio setup that produces dramatic harsh lighting, and how to stylize a shoot, integrating props like gear and team uniforms. He also shares tips for eliciting emotion from the athlete, and case studies from his experiences shooting cross-country runners and lacrosse players. The course wraps up with some post-processing techniques for portraits and action shots, as well as a trick for compositing images of individual players into a team shot with Lightroom and Photoshop.
Topics include:

• Choosing a portable backdrop
• Using speedlights
• Researching the talent and the sport
• Scouting the location
• Lighting and designing the shot
• Getting permissions and releases
• Shooting intense individual portraits and team shots
• Post-processing portraits quickly in Lightroom
• Finishing action shots from games in Lightroom

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