Creating Beautiful Studio Portraits
Award-winning photographer Bobbi Lane demonstrates how the interaction within the Phottix system helps photographers create beautiful and creative studio portraits by putting more control directly into their hands. With the Odin transmitter, you can adjust the lighting right from the camera, eliminating the need to break your focus on your shoot, and leaving you more time to concentrate on the subject at hand.
Bill Sumner is the photographer that I assisted when I left photography school. I was so fortunate to learn from such a master of photography and a truly great human being! Bill's career has been amazing. Among other clients, he did a huge series of images for the Nike Sports Heroes. Check out his site:
www.billsumner.com
Enjoy the video, learn to see and use the light with the Phottix Indra great lighting system.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWsQkqEnbaY
Here’s a video from PIX 2015 of my Travel Portrait Presentation
Travel Portraits: Storytelling and Lighting
Half hour presentation by award winning photographer Bobbi Lane and her encounters with people in Venice, US West, Dubai and Oman, Myanmar, Turkey and Ethiopia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJzJiXVitIg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJzJiXVitIg
The Essential Guide to Posing
Capture polished portraits by posing people for photos in the best ways possible! Join respected commercial photographer Bobbi Lane and learn how to direct your subjects for success whether they're male, female, adults or children. During class, Bobbi will begin with pointers for impactful headshots, standing photos and sitting photos. Wondering how to play up good features and downplay what's less flattering? You'll discover how to use the four basic lighting patterns to your advantage to do just that. Bobbi will also give tips for communicating with your clients to photograph couples, groups and even kids successfully. Plus, find out how to scout the perfect location for a shoot and enhance your images with props!
Bryan Peterson School of Photography
4 week online classes that include weekly lessons, assignments and critiques.
Portraits Unplugged
Natural light portraits can be the most evocative and meaningful images that a photographer can create. However, understanding and mastering the basic qualities of light can be challenging. The beauty of available light is that it’s everywhere. Any time of day and any situation can be turned into a great opportunity for environmental portraits. This class will help develop your ability to ‘see’ the quality of light and apply it to ‘real’ people. We don’t scout locations, we scout light and make the location work. We put our people in the light, critically aware of the direction as well as the quality, to create our interpretive portraits. The most important part of our picture is not the subject, but how we choose to define our subject. The emphasis is on utilizing all our tools: light, tonality, composition and color, to get our ideas stated visually.
Many photographers get ‘lucky’ when working with light and realize that early morning and late afternoon are flattering times to do portraits. The truth is that learning to control the light gives you the freedom to photograph any time of day with outstanding results. The class will cover all kinds of existing light: hard, soft, bounced, reflected, diffused, etc. The only tools we use are reflectors and diffusers. No flash! We will work in both black and white and color depending upon the mood you want to create. There are many facets that go into creating an effective portrait and we cover those various aspects and work with posing and expression for a variety of personalities.
Posing and Directing
Have you been challenged by how to pose your subject? This dilemma is one of the most common problems for portrait photographers. The first step is understanding how design and composition guide the eye in a photograph. This non-formulaic approach will assist you in guiding your subject into natural and comfortable poses, using body positions, arms and legs, and head tilts to design effective and attractive compositions. The class guides you with creating comfortable poses with step by step instructions, helping you develop your sense of how the posing creates the flow of the photo. The video shows how to turn the body, place the hands, how to sit and stand for pleasing lines by creating curves and triangles for better visual flow.
All the technique in the world means nothing without a point to the portrait. Strong concepts and clear communication with the subject is the key to meaningful portraits. Bobbi talks about how to overcome your fears and address your subject’s concerns, how to establish excellent rapport, putting them at ease so they feel more comfortable throughout the entire photographic experience. This also allows them to give you better expressions because they feel more secure and confident.
Links
The Essential Guide to Posing
Portraits Unplugged
Posing and Directing