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How to Take Amazing Photos with your DSLR

Julia Kelleher

Portrait > How To Take Amazing Photos With Your Dslr

How to Take Amazing Photos with your DSLR

Julia Kelleher

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Class Trailer
1 Class Introduction 15:29 2 Reviewing Photography Basics 16:06 3 Shoot: Female Portrait 27:47 4 Shoot: Male Portrait 24:13 5 Photography Basics: Child Portraits 14:05 6 Shoot: Posed Child Portraits 22:09 7 Shoot: Candid Child Portraits 32:15 8 Photography Basics: Pets 18:30
9 Shoot: Pet Portraits 20:14 10 Shoot: Child and Pet Portraits 32:18 11 Photography Basics: Groups and Families 16:20 12 Shoot: Families 16:34 13 Shoot: Groups 26:59 14 Product Photography: Overview 08:00 15 Photography Basics: Product Photography 08:31 16 Shoot: Jewelry Photography 25:00 17 Shoot: Food Photography 14:15 18 Shoot: Craft Photography 26:38 19 Overview: Marketing Mock Ups 09:51 20 Shoot: Website and Marketing Mock Ups 24:33 21 Photoshop - Adding Text and Layer Masks to Mock Ups 23:47 22 Overview: Modifiers 15:53 23 Demo: Diffusion Panel 04:33 24 Demo: Reflectors 09:18 25 Demo: V-Flats 04:36 26 Demo: GOBOs 30:22 27 Overview: Strobe Lights 08:55 28 Freezing Action with Strobe Light 28:04 29 Adjusting Background Color with Light 24:22 30 Kicker Light with Strobe Light 11:54 31 Wrap up and Review 06:58

Class Description


Understanding how your camera functions is a start, but in order to capture the best images, you need to know more than what buttons to push.  Julia Kelleher will walk you through some likely beginner photographer scenarios to show how to work in multiple situations, compose your image and get the most from your subjects. Whether you purchased your camera to take photos of your children, your friends or even products you are hoping to sell, Julia will show you how to feel comfortable in any environment. In this class Julia will show you: 
  • Taking pictures of children: how to work with energetic subjects, what compositions are safest as well as poses and ideas to keep them engaged 
  • Taking pictures of groups: be it your friends, coworkers or clients- learn the best approaches for group photos so you can capture people looking their best 
  • Products: If you’re starting a business or selling your belongings online, a great picture goes a long way in helping a buyer choose your product 
  • Headshots or banner photos: learn techniques to get professional headshots or captivating banner photos for your social media or website 
  • How to work with natural light and control it in your favor, as well as inexpensive options to help improve your lighting quality 
 If you’re new to working with a professional camera, this class will give you the confidence to capture an image in any scenario with your expensive purchase. Make the most out of every situation by learning to compose, pose, direct and light your subjects.  

Reviews

user-3f7515
 

Julia is an amazing teacher!!!! Funny, go with the flow, honest, and obviously so gifted at what she does. That came through and also inspired those feelings in me as a novice photographer. I left her class feeling excited to play with my camera and appreciate that she encouraged me to use what I have now and get good before spending tons of money on fancier stuff. I also love that she showed how everyday materials from Home Depot can make for great images. I particularly appreciated the 2nd day on product photography, social media images and the short demos in PhotoShop. Please do a full class on just this Julia/Creative Live!!!!!

Brandon Couch
 

So first off I've been doing photography for a little bit now and only shot in manual 20% of the time and was okay with it. Since coming to this class and seeing how manual mode isn't scary, it is everything you need and want in the life of photography, I now will not use anything else. The team at Creative Live is amazing and Julia's love for other starting and even professional photographers is amazing. She would sit and talk to us together and individually and really loves those who love photography. I would recommend this class and any other one of Julia's classes here on CreativeLive. I can't wait to come back. Was AMAZING!!! LIFE CHANGING!!!

a Creativelive Student
 

What an awesome class! I am not a beginner and am currently making a living as a photographer and was interested in this class because #1 Julia is such a great teacher with such talent and #2 I was expecting to take away some valuable information to pass along to my little after school beinning photo club. I am happy to report Julia did not disappoint:-) What actually happened was that I learned so many things that I probably should have known being a seasoned professional that I lost track of my original intention of why I was there. I couldn't wait to pull out my camera and try all of the new things that I had just learned. The color balancing and the little dot showing when your camera (Nikon) was manually focused alone was worth the price. I enjoyed every minute of this course. Thanks Julia! Anyone would benefit from this course....