Review definitions of quality and hardness of light, various lighting types and techniques, influence of a lighting setup on the perception of the proportions of the subject, etc.
Practice with a gypsum bust.
Second part: working with a live model. Theory and practice recommendations; tips and techniques regularly used by the author in his work. Main composition lines in a portrait, etc.

From watching the video lesson you will get to know all methods and tricks Paul is regularly using in his work: from staging a shot to its post-production.
You will learn how to create timeless classical portraits, airy and mystical scenes using mixed lighting technique, and also other types of creative photographs.

An extensive lesson on artistic style portrait processing with Adobe Photoshop. Learn to make your digital photography look like an art masterpiece using an original technique explained in detail in this video course.

Realism is not always something that makes a photograph to stand out. Sometimes to implement a creative vision you may want to change (or even distort) an image.

Digital photo post-processing in a painterly style using Adobe Photoshop. In this lesson you will learn how to create a painterly effect in post-processing and how to make a "breathing" piece of art out of an uninspiring digital photograph.

  
Demonstration of step-by-step creation of a classical studio portrait. You have an opportunity to take a detached view at shooting process and by the eyes of author.
There are made practical recommendations (subtitles in English) about work with model and lighting.

In this lesson we will go through three practical examples of the mixed light photography techniques including the post-processing of the taken photographs.