Commercial Photography: From Start to Finish
Joel Grimes
Lessons
Day 1
1Ten Things That Spell Disaster for a Photographer Part 1
25:08 2Ten Things That Spell Disaster for a Photographer Part 2
30:44 3Ten Things You Need to Know about Branding
31:12 4Shoot: One Side Light Beauty Shot Part 1
26:25 5Shoot: One Side Light Beauty Shot Part 2
19:20 6Shoot: One Overhead Light Headshot
14:06 7Shoot: Edgy Three Light Setup Part 1
26:21Shoot: Edgy Three Light Setup Part 2
16:41 9Shoot: High Fashion with Cross Light
24:57 10Lighting Q&A
11:25 11Compositing Fashion Shoot Part 1
40:21 12Compositing Fashion Shoot Part 2
29:19 13Recap with Q&A
12:43Day 2
14Understanding the Bidding Process
29:17 15The Art of Negotiation
35:55 16Money vs Art
19:19 17Shoot: Harley Man with Three Light Setup
33:28 18Shoot: Harley Man with One Light Setup
29:33 19Shoot: Capturing Athletic Intensity
33:55 20Shoot: Capturing Atlethic Movement
22:39 21Shoot: Athletic Portrait
25:10 22HDR Backgrounds
25:16 23Compositing Harley Man
33:54 24Compositing Athlete
10:23 25Retouching Q&A
13:55Day 3
26So You Want to Make a Living
12:18 27The Reality of Making a Living as a Photographer
28:53 28The Road to Becoming Pro
41:32 29Shoot: One Speedlite Beauty Shot
18:11 30Shoot: Three Light Beauty Shot
26:59 31Shoot: Blown Out Beauty Shot
19:25 32Shoot: Steampunk with Crosslight
30:26 33Shoot: Steampunk with Three Lights
37:12 34Compositing Steampunk Shoot Part 1
35:03 35Compositing Steampunk Shoot Part 2
20:01 36Compositing Blown Out Beauty Shoot
27:36Class Description
Commercial photography can be a lucrative and artistically fulfilling way to earn a living as a photographer. Learn what it takes to break into the commercial market and create impressive and imaginative work from industry veteran, Joel Grimes.
If you want to attract commercial clients, your existing body of work must have a sophisticated and distinct voice. Joel will coach you through the experience of establishing your own unique voice and show you how to bring it to life through six photo shoots and their corresponding edits. Joel will demonstrate one-light fashion and concept shoots and take you back to the desk to composite and polish them. You’ll also see Joel shooting product and portrait photos using a more elaborate set-up. This course will also cover the business of bidding for commercial work, effective negotiation tactics and final delivery.
If you are ready to break into commercial photography or up your client game, you won’t want to miss this complete guide to shooting, editing and delivering commercial work.
Ratings and Reviews
OneMoreArtist
Joel Grimes reflects the true meaning of a passionate modern artist. Seamlessly blending his old school film techniques in todays ever-changing digital world with such amazing realistic results. Not only in his own body of work, but achieving the same outcome while teaching LIVE, even when things don’t always run smoothly, much like the real world. Thank you Joel for sharing your hard work and talents, your struggles, most importantly, your honest open teaching style with such detail in every segment. Much appreciate CREATIVE LIVE for keeping it real with good talent, on and off screen showcasing common humanity in us all. Indeed, a revolutionary company. Manny DaCunha.
a Creativelive Student
As an editorial and photographic professional it's refreshing to find new cerebral information that goes beyond simple instruction. It was motivating to see Joel, a highly respected professional who is successful in "real-life", display his thought process, points to be successful, and insights into his art. When you have been in the industry, working full time, you need those moments to relax, visualize and re-energize so you can look at projects with a renewed vision and passion. Joel and his Commercial Photography course did that and more for me. If my schedule allowed, I would certainly join Joel at one of his workshops. Only thing better than this CreativeLive would be attending live. Thank you Joel.
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