This six-session, challenge-based course enhances your portrait skills through understanding and maximizing natural light, continuous (hot) lights, composition, lens effects, and working with human subjects. We'll delve deep into what it means to be creative in photographic portraiture, including how to overcome equipment limitations in the DIY studio, and develop basic post-production skills to complete the job.

This two-part Field Guide is perfect for photographers who need an introduction to lighting indoors for product shots, portraits or high-end fashion.  You'll learn the basic principles of lighting using daylight-balanced strobes, hotlights (tungsten), reflectors, softboxes, and how they all work together.  Emphasis is on both technical concepts and creative control, helping you become more comfortable and confident with external lights.