Cinematic Lighting for Portraiture with Chris Knight

High quality information. Awesome as a review of everything you have to know for a photo shoot.

Outstanding!

Loved it! I always take away something great from his lessons. My favorite part was learning how to sculpt your own light in photoshop.

I really love Chris Knight' artistic work, and his knowledge. Thus,, here, I'm at lesson 18 and we are still talking...Too much talks for me, I love to learn by doing, by looking at the artist making his work, and not to wait for this part, which, according to me, should be the first one to keep your audience...but still a great course.

Outstanding class! I've watched almost a dozen classes on lighting at CreativeLive, and this one is definitely the most specific for cinematic images! I was waiting for a class that I could use for cinematography, and this is exactly what I was looking for.

Great class!!!

excellent class in all regards. outstanding instructor with experience in complicated cinematic shoots but who also is willing to thoroughly cover the basic nuts and bolts. i wish all creative live classes were of this quality.

Really great.

This is an excellent class however definitely for an advanced photographer..you might mention that. I highly recommend it for photographers​ who know how to use lighting and have had a lot of experience lighting..

One of the best classes I have viewed at Creative Live. Definitely worth the investment of time and money. The pace of the class allows you to learn extra tips and tricks throughout the process. Great instructor, highly recommend this class to anyone looking to step up their creative game.

This course is simply terrific, and I highly recommend it. Firstly it arrived at the perfect time for me as I am soon to do a studio shoot very much in keeping with a cinematic or theatrical aesthetic. Secondly it's taught by Chris Knight who I swear is like a long-lost twin brother. :-) There are so many parallels in the way he thinks and works to my own style. So I avidly watched this as soon as it was available for anytime streaming. This is the first time I have made extensive use of the CL iPhone app, btw, and I love how it pretty much enabled me to seamlessly switch back and forth from desktop viewing to my iPad that I carry around the house during the day. I was able to make coffee and still carry on taking in the course, uninterrupted. The content is fantastic, delivered succinctly yet entertainingly. Some material and ideas are already in my repertoire and were reinforced and validated by Chris' demonstrations. But he also introduced a lot of ideas and methods new to me and very welcome. I was particularly glad to see how practical it is to stitch a series of tripod shots into a wide pano. I have been afraid to try that but I will now be using that in my next shoot, for sure. As alway, his post production practices revealed all kinds of tips about Lightroom and Photoshop I didn't know. Negatives. The volume level mastering is iffy. It started out at a decent level then midway through one of the early lessons dropped so much I had to turn up my sound system to compensate. And as I write this one lesson (34) is missing and in its place was a duplicate of the next lesson (35). I expect CL will have that fixed shortly though (I sent support a note).

A FANTASTIC value! This class was extremely well put together. The beginning has a bit of history, and basic concept of what "Cinematic Lighting" looks like, but quickly it goes to the how-to get it! The pre-production videos in 2 very different locations, inside and out, with female and male models, give variety and practical situations when shooting. The final section on post-processing brings it all together.

I'm not a fan of every single instructor on CL. Some of them can't teach a class without trying to project their own egos. Chris is an amazing exception to that. I really end up learning with him even if my personal aesthetic preferences are different from his. This class really focus on basics such as lighting, basic gear, production and practical execution. This is about more than cinematic/low-key lighting. I really recommend.

I personally have bought most of his videos at Creative Live. He definitely knows the art of composition & Lighting which defines The Pro from the Amateur for me. Eventhough i First wanna see it Live , I know that it’s a really good chance I’ll buy it.