Studio Photography For Beginners

The Easiest Way to to Learn Studio Photography and Set Up a Budget Home Studio

What you'll learn
Learning about the equipment needed to set up a budget home photography studio
Learning about how strobe lights (studio lights) work
Learning about the camera settings to be used in studio photography
Learning how to execute creative studio photography techniques like low-key photography, high-key photography, color gel photography, etc
Requirements
You need to have a camera and some basic studio equipment, though the equipment can also be purchased later on once you learn.
Description
Have you always wanted to learn studio photography but had no idea where to start?  Then you've come to the right place.This course will teach you everything you need to know about studio photography and also enable you to set up a budget studio right inside your own house.In this course, we start off by learning about all the essential equipment that you would require in your studio.Then we dive into each equipment (like strobe lights, modifiers, etc) and learn about them individually so you understand their purpose.Then we get into the fun part where you start learning about all the settings in your camera that you need to use for studio photography. We discuss the ISO, Aperture, Shutter Speed and White Balance that you would need to use for studio photography.From there on, we move towards understanding light and how to modify it. We learn about things like the Inverse Square Law of Light and how to turn hard light into soft light by using different types of modifiers. We also cover different light set-ups like the one-light, two-light, three-light and four-light set ups so you can achieve any kind of studio portrait you want. We also see how to combine strobe lights with speedlites.We also look at very cool and dramatic studio lighting techniques like high-key, low-key and color gels photography.We round off things by going through some of the basic editing practices for your studio portraits.You also get a document which has the list of all the equipment and accessories shown in the course so you don't have to research things on your own. Even the links to buy these online are given in this document so you'll end up saving a lot of time and effort. Once you go through this course you'll even find that, to start out, you don't even need most of the equipment. Even if you have got just a camera and an external flash/speedlite, you can get started.Also, you don't have to have any prior extensive knowledge of photography or even the manual mode settings because we have created this course in such a way that it's perfect even for a complete beginner. So here's hoping that you will decide to take indulge in this beautiful experience of learning studio photography. We wish you all the luck in your journey!

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 About me (Your Trainer) and Some Important Information

Lecture 2 Join Our Private Facebook Group

Lecture 3 Recommended Studio Photography Gear

Lecture 4 Introduction to a Budget Home Studio

Section 2: Understanding a Strobe Light

Lecture 5 Understanding a Strobe Light - Part 1

Lecture 6 Understanding a Strobe Light - Part 2

Section 3: Understanding Modifiers

Lecture 7 Understanding a Modifier - Part 1 (Softbox and Umbrella)

Lecture 8 6. Understanding a Modifier - Part 2 (Hard Light and Soft Light)

Section 4: Understanding the Backdrop

Lecture 9 7. Understanding a Backdrop

Section 5: Taking Our First Shot

Lecture 10 Taking Our First Studio Shot (A Self Portrait)

Section 6: What Camera Settings to Use in Studio Photography

Lecture 11 Intro to Camera Setting and Flash Exposure

Lecture 12 Understanding Flash Exposure

Lecture 13 What ISO to Use?

Lecture 14 Modelling Lamp vs Flash Unit of a Strobe Light

Lecture 15 What Shutter Speed to Use? (The Concept of Sync Speed) - Part 1

Lecture 16 What Shutter Speed to Use? (The Concept of Sync Speed) - Part 2

Lecture 17 What Aperture to Use?

Lecture 18 What White Balance to Use?

Section 7: Understanding Light

Lecture 19 Inverse Square Law of Light

Lecture 20 Turning Hard Light Into Soft Light - Part 1

Lecture 21 Turning Hard Light Into Soft Light - Part 2

Lecture 22 Types of Modifiers - Part 1

Lecture 23 Types of Modifiers - Part 2

Section 8: Which Lens to Use?

Lecture 24 Which Lens to Use?

Section 9: Light Set-ups

Lecture 25 One Light Set-up With Reflector

Lecture 26 Two Lights Set-up and Slave Mode - Part 1

Lecture 27 Two Lights Set-up and Slave Mode - Part 2

Lecture 28 Three Lights Set-up With Hair Light

Section 10: Lighting Techniques

Lecture 29 Four Lights Set-up and High-Key Photography

Lecture 30 Low-Key Photography

Lecture 31 Studio Photography Using Color Gels

Section 11: Editing Studio Portraits

Lecture 32 Editing Studio Portraits

Section 12: Conclusion

Lecture 33 Conclusion

Lecture 34 Bonus Lecture - Check out my other courses on Udemy

People interested in learning the art of studio photography.