AFTER THIS CLASS YOU’LL BE ABLE TO:

• Set up your camera with confidence
• Better understand shutter speed, aperture, and ISO
• Capture perfect exposures in camera
• Get sharp, focused images quickly
• Understand white balance and the difference between RAW and JPEG
• Quickly and confidently capture images “in the moment”
• Become a better photographer by building an understanding of basic photography techniques

AFTER THIS CLASS YOU’LL BE ABLE TO:

• Confidently create environmental portraits
• Light any portrait, indoors or outdoors
• Compose strong environmental portraits
• Cull and polish high-end images in post
• Develop a portfolio and marketing tactics

In this class you’ll learn:

• How to use adjustment layers to check the luminance, saturation, and hue of a composite.
• How to make composites come to life by adding ambient color.
• How to use familiar tools in unconventional ways to help you create realistic composites

• Dan briefs you on a Black & White Tri-X look. If you grade to his brief and post in the comments, he'll play 'client' and offer feedback.
• I had a request from a couple of Mixing Light members to bring back the Grading Challenges so here we are and we are looking at building a dirty Kodak Tri-X Film Stock inspired look.
• I love dishing out a brief and seeing how every single one of us will come up with something totally different.
• If you’ve never taken part in one before please do this time!
• It’s essentially me role-playing as the client and setting a brief for the grade and also giving feedback on your attempts in the comments section
• I also wrap up things by doing a video Insight with the same footage and comparing my looks to yours.
• In a slight change from the usual format, I’ve actually included my attempt at the look in Part 1. I’d still urge you to try your own version for fun before watching my grade but if you don’t have the time you can freely enjoy my look building.

AFTER THIS CLASS YOU’LL BE ABLE TO:

• Master multiple off-camera flash setups for dramatic portraits.
• Control light with flash modifiers such as softboxes, grids, and gels.
• Master creative techniques like creating silhouettes anywhere, pin lighting. your subjects, backlighting rain, creating starbursts with diffraction, and much more.
• Use various tools in Adobe Lightroom Classic to enhance the images created using the lighting techniques taught in this course.

Documenting the first days and weeks of a newborn baby is often as stressful for the photographer as it is for the parent. Knowing how to handle the baby, capture all that is in your shot list, and keep tired parents calm and happy is often overwhelming. Join Emily Lucarz, as she walks you through how to get started in newborn photography by taking the photo session into your client’s home. Emily’s passion for newborn photography will teach how to incorporate not only items in the home into your photography but also how to capture natural moments that document real memories in the baby's first few weeks. 

She’ll cover: 

• How to photograph in natural light no matter how dark or bright the room is 
• Prepping the parents before you get there so your photoshoot is relaxed 
• Poses and safety tips that work great for the newborn baby and for the family 
• Incorporating young siblings into your session 
• Marketing yourself as you grow your clientele and your portfolio 
• Pricing and Sales that don’t overwhelm new parents 

By the end of this course, you’ll have the tools and techniques to capture images that are not only memories but become art in your client’s home.  

• If you use Blender enough and stay in the irc channels for long enough, certain artists popup repeatedly or are mentioned in tones of awe. We see their work, are suitably impressed. One such artist is Angela Guenette, who has worked on everything you can do in the 3D modeling world (website Ponder Studios.org), see her youtube channel for examples of her work.
• The people at the Blender Foundation were so impressed they decided it would be a good idea if they made her one of the main 3D modelers on the Sintel open movie project which was released a while back. She was the person responsible for modeling the character of Sintel the heroine of the movie.
• So when i found out that Ms Guenette would be creating a training video DVD, I went right to the Blender EShop and ordered a copy.

• This is not the typical demonstration painting seen in workshops.
• It was painted over a period of six days with Morgan providing a continuous commentary about his drawing and painting process. Morgan receives countless invitations to teach workshops around the country, but due to his gallery and show obligations, his opportunity to teach is rare.
• So to be able to reach the painters who want to study with him, but can’t, he filmed this video to fill that need. 
• A warm and giving instructor with a lively sense of humor, he offers much more than a workshop in this program, where he is able to paint at his own pace in the familiar surroundings of his own studio using a local model. In addition to demonstrating his painting process, Morgan spent several hours doing instructional "side trips", which provide additional instruction intended to supplement and punctuate the most important principles he demonstrates while doing the painting. 
• If you have ever wanted to take a "private lesson" with a master painter, this is the video that will allow you to experience that desire. Take a visual tour of his studio and the environment in which he paints, and you will feel as if you are there during the entire creative process.