Course Description

Photographing people can be fun, exciting, and complicated! This course will make taking beautiful pictures of adults, children, and babies simple. You will start with the basic principles you need to know in order to become a people photographer. You will discover the best way to shoot faces, fix common close-up problems, and use digital photo editing techniques to retouch your photos and make other improvements.

Then you will move onto portrait and formal group shots, where you will learn how to organize people, which angles to use, and which to avoid. You will become proficient in action photography, and you will learn some fun, creative ways to photograph children and babies. You will even gain expertise in filling your photographs with imagery, setting moods, and creating themes. This course will have you well on your way to becoming a skilled people photographer.

Course Outline

• Digital Camera Basics
• All About Exposure
• Indoor and Outdoor Lighting Techniques
• Composing Photographs
• Taking Portraits of Individuals and Groups
• Photographing Hands, Faces, and People with Their Pets
• Photographing Children
• Action Photography
• Macro and Abstract Photography
• Shooting Formals and Weddings
• Post-Processing Photos of People
• The Business of Photography