Lessons
Class Introduction
05:49 2Analyzing the Face
14:48 3Light and Skin
10:34 4Science of Light
10:09 5Direction of Light
14:39 6Fill Light
12:19 7Demo and Shoot: Analyzing the Face
07:10 8Demo and Shoot: Distance of Light
19:21Demo and Shoot: Distance from Subject
09:17 10Round Face Considerations
09:55 11Shoot: Round Face
13:23 12Double Chin Considerations
06:51 13Shoot: Double Chin
07:07 14Shoot: Big Forehead
05:17 15Big Forehead Considerations
06:40 16Pronounced Nose Considerations
03:56 17Shoot: Pronounced Nose Considerations
06:23 18Uneven Features Considerations
02:03 19Shoot: Uneven Features
01:20 20Shoot: Large or Small Chin
09:12 21Pronounced Wrinkles Considerations
04:08 22Shoot: Pronounced Wrinkles
12:23 23Shoot: Uneven Skin
06:33 24Oily Skin Considerations
03:17 25Shoot: Oily Skin
04:41 26No Curves Considerations
05:18 27Shoot: No Curves
10:07 28Full Figured Subject Considerations
10:09 29Shoot: Full Figured Subject
04:29 30Shoot: Glasses
09:04 31Balding Considerations
02:27 32Shoot: Balding
07:10 33Retouching: Wrinkles
15:27 34Retouching: Uneven Skin
04:36 35Retouching: Brighten Face & Whiten Teeth
05:06 36Retouching: Large Forehead
04:24 37Retouching: Round Face
07:02 38Retouching: Oily Skin
02:53 39Retouching: Full Figured Subject
13:06Lesson Info
Shoot: No Curves
Eleanor, would you be my lovely subject? Hey girl how are you? Nice to see you. Come stand in the middle. So I will say, I'm gonna face you around, we just have her in a tee shirt and pants. We just have a really, really slender subject. I want to make interesting shapes. So when I say a subject with no curves, it doesn't mean that I have to make voluptuous shape. That's not what I'm saying. It's just you want more interesting shapes to photograph. Let me, for example, let's try two shapes here. I'm gonna have you take a seat. Great. I'll have you turn towards the light. Perfect. I'm going to have you put up your back knee on this apple box. Back foot. Well, foot, but bend your knee up. That's what I mean. (laughing) Put it up just a little bit more. Perfect. I'm gonna have you lean forward on it. Good. Now pull up a little bit taller. Great. Then cross your hand over just a little bit more. Perfect. Then look at me. Great. Perfect. (camera click and beep) Okay. Oh, dark. Can you b...
ring this this way for me? Yeah-- Hold on. You want me to power this up? It's at 16. No, it's just shadowed. Too shadowed. Don't pay attention yet. (laughing) A little bit more John, even this way just a tiny bit? Then I can open up a a bit. Okay All right, good. (camera click and beep) Perfect. So the idea is here. Even though I'm not making her look curvy, because I bent her knee and I bent her arms, you've got some shape to follow in the form. Compared to, can you sit up straight and face me straight on? Great. And then just sit there. Comfortably. (camera click and beep) Versus not having as much shape, there's no flow to this shot. So I'm bending things and curving things to give my eyes some interest. Can you put that knee back up one more time? Can you lean, the whole thing, and I'm gonna have you cross the other arm over. Good. And put it way out, and then bend it just a little bit. It's super awkward but it won't be. Good. (camera click and beep) Okay. Let's say that she's leaning out onto something, so it would give her a little more shape, a little bit more interest to follow. Let's try a full-length shot. Maybe stand up. Great. Now we're gonna talk about making a little bit more curve. Still gonna use the box? Yeah, I'm just gonna pull her back a little bit 'cause it's a little too contrasting. Let's put it right here. I'm gonna build step by step for creating curve. Let's switch lens. So I'm not doing close-ups. I'm gonna switch over to my 24 to 105. Is there another apple box lying around? Yes, right back here. Cool. Okay. Stand real flat and bored. That looks good. I believe it. Looks good. If you take a look here. Don't judge my backgrounds; they're all crazy. (camera click and beep) She's very tall, very slender. Right? I wanna create curves. So let's do what I was saying. I'm gonna have you turn to your right, and put your left foot up on that box. Okay? So far I'm gonna do step by step. (camera click and beep) Give myself ... one shape. So the knee's bent, got a little bit of curve there. What I'm gonna have you do is I'm gonna have you put your hand here, and I'm gonna have you arch your lower back. Perfect. So she'll arch her lower back, which is a classy way of saying stick your butt out. (laughing) It's the same thing. A little bit. She's like, "Great." Can you lean your chest forward? So I'm leaning her forward because she leans her chest forward it emphasizes this. 'Cause here you don't see it, but here you will. So keep leaning, keep leaning, keep leaning. Good. Perfect. Turn your chest towards me just a little bit. Great. I'm gonna have you put your hand up here in the back. Okay, good. And a little taller like that. Perfect. Okay so I start to get-- keep leaning, keep leaning and arch. Make your back hurt. Yeah. Good. Good. (camera click and beep) Thank you. Yeah, perfect. I'm gonna switch 'cause her knee is too high. Too high. In my posing class I talk about this. Right angles don't encourage curve. There's structure, but they kind of stop you abruptly. If you want your eye to kind of flow, you don't want that much. Okay. Good. So curve, curve, curve. Yeah. So I've created a little bit more curve, (camera click and beep) Okay. But I can enhance this even more if I get up taller, I'm gonna make even more curve. Okay, so lean your chest towards me. Everything painful. Good. Chin down. (laughing) (camera click and beep) Good. All right, good. What I get for my eye is I get curve that's like voom, voom, voom. Like right? I'm kind of following things around. That is kind of how I put that together. I'm gonna do one more thing. Stand flat foot. Okay. Face me straight on. Okay. One more way to make curve, I'm making you uncomfortable. I'm sorry, ready? (laughing) Do this. Knee over as far as possible. I'm gonna have you do like this. Yeah, okay. Now turn your chest back towards me. Okay. Bring your foot back just a little. Yeah, okay. What this does I talked about with my other classes is it narrows here so what happens is I'll see I'm gonna create some curve here, curve here, and then it narrows. So what it does instead of you standing flat foot, and you crop above the knees, like here. It's two vertical lines, and it's very square, like it's a rectangular lower part of my body. But if I cut it over, you're like, oh look, that hip curves in. It gives you a little bit more line to follow compared to this. So this is called the narrowing point. It also for curvier people gives the mind the impression that somebody gets narrower or they're more slender, curvier than they actually are. Because you exit the frame if I crop here at a part where they did narrow. So you picture the rest of them as narrow. It's a good mind trick thing. Put your hand here. Put it on your bumm that way. A little lower. Good. Real tall. Arch your back. Pain, lots of pain. Good. (laughter) Okay, real tall. Then lean this way. Good. Perfect. Great. This light's gonna be terrible. Hold on. (camera click and beep) Can I shift-- Yeah. It's not like the worst, but it, you know. Want her facing the other way? Yeah, can you turn the other way? All right. Face him, and then pop up the other knee. There. Now come face back towards me. Okay, good. Yeah that's good, that's good. Just like that. And then bring your elbow back out, like this. No, like ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch. Good. Perfect. Great. (camera click and beep) Okay, good. The point is, if you look it's the fact that knees are at the bottom of the frame versus stand flat foot. Do the same thing, hand on your hip. Put your feet apart just a little bit. Now look. (camera click and beep) This is the bad. That's not curve, it's just kind of square at the bottom versus if we narrow, now there's a little bit more flow to the shot. Okay? So you mention 90 degrees on not being ideal. Is that something you want the men to do a little bit more than getting them more curvy? Yeah, generally 90-degree angles are more masculine, and they're a little bit more aggressive, and they're more structured. Most of the time you pose men like that, or, if a woman is supposed to be in a particular image, strong, or supposed to be more aggressive. So a fashion image, here's my example. A fashion image with a woman that's meant to be strong. It would be like right angles with the arms and legs. But if she's meant to be curvy, it would be longer, more obtuse angles, or more acute angles. It's just different things. But with guys, you almost always try to do right angles 'cause it doesn't look good otherwise. So still flat feet? I still do not flat feet with guys, just not ... not that kind of thing. (Laughter) My whole point of this whole thing is I have a bunch of other classes on posing, but if you can bend it, bend it If you can curve it, curve it, which was bend the knee, arch the lower back, bend the arm, bend the wrist, lean the chest forward, higher camera angle. I'm doin' things to make it not straight up and down. The body, straight up and down cause that's what it is. So we're breakin' and bendin' things.
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Sharma Shari
This class was amazing! It was great seeing a demo class with real people. As a wedding photographer that specializes in offbeat/non traditional couples, it is always good to see how I can enhance all my clients beautiful features, and make them feel their best and confident when I am taking their photos!
a Creativelive Student
I was so excited to get the chance to learn from Lindsay live, and this course did not disappoint! The techniques she shared were insightful and straightforward. I felt like seeing them on different subjects throughout the day really helped to cement the concepts and grow my photography tools to bring out the best in those I'm photographing. I'm not a studio photographer, but the ideas apply in natural light as well.
maria manolaros
Great class! Impressive amount of tips on posing, lighting and photoshop techniques , a real good no nonsense approach by superb teacher. Numerous amounts of thumbs ups
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