Experimental Portraits with Sue Bryce, Lara Jade

imaginative ideas brought to life.

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  • 30 video lessons
  • 14 hours and 43 minutes of class content
  • Streaming access on desktop and mobile browsers
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Bring your most imaginative ideas to life with Lara Jade and Sue Bryce's dynamic workshop on illustrative portraiture. This course will stimulate your creative senses and show you how to produce magnificent conceptual fine art portraits.

Lara Jade started her own lucrative career as an international fashion photographer by doing experimental self portraits, fine art and book covers. Sue Bryce is a multi award-winning Illustrative portrait photographer who specializes in creating beautiful images that look straight out of a fashion editorial. 

Lara and Sue will break down every step of their process—everything from scouting for creative props and settings to styling and shooting your portrait. Finally, this dream team will bring all the elements together in Photoshop and show you how to polish your raw photos into pieces of art that reflect your own unique imagination.

Course Instructors

Lara Jade

Lara Jade

Lara Jade is a fashion and advertising photographer from England who currently resides in New York City. She was fortunate enough to chance upon photography at the age of fifteen, taking early fortes in self-portraiture and fine art photography.
Sue Bryce

Sue Bryce

Multi-talented Sue Bryce is a Master Photographer, Artist, Illustrator, and anthropologist. Her style of contemporary fashion-inspired portraiture gives her clients the experience of looking like the women in magazines and feeling beautiful.

Experimental Portraits with Sue Bryce, Lara Jade is rated 4.3 stars by 56 students

  • Dannette T. Oct 13, 2020

    Something I've been playing with on PS just to have images that are differnt. Loved the additional instruction and ideas. It's a whole new world than regular portraiture, but completely enthralling. Only bad thing to say is it's really hard to follow the conversation when Lara is talking over Sue.

  • Tammy D. May 22, 2020

    Sue is the most adorable woman and Lara's talent is unmatched! I am so happy that Sue loved the images....she is such a beautiful woman in so many ways. I absolutely love this course!!!

  • Sally S. Aug 23, 2019

    Love the dynamics between Sue and Lara - amazing. They both bring different elements into teaching this class. Best money I ever spent on a class.....except for Sue Bryce's posing classes, of course.

  • Ms T. Jul 10, 2019

    Luv the course... is there a discount code for alien skin on this lesson?

  • anja V. Jan 14, 2019

    I have learned a lot of new things so that is great. The only thing that I am missing are the finished photographs, Where is the photo of the woman in ivy of the aerial woman? from the last one I can not find the photoshop edit. I bought this video's of Sue because of the photoshop edits but if you can't see the finished images or can not follow the photoshop proces then it is a bit of a dissapointment.

  • Bess P. Aug 25, 2018

    I like the enthusiasm and the creative techniques offered. Very fun mixture of photo shoots and post processing. They don’t always give a A to Z approach to everything they cover so it might not be for a beginning student of photoshop who doesn’t want to do a little independent research of a few of the techniques. Also the post processing might be a little too simplistic for advanced intermediate users.

  • Angie C. May 22, 2018

    I applaud Laura in this of shooting Sue who has the lime light of photography.. Laura is obviously an expert in her young years and herself vulnerable. Actually I applaud both of them.

  • Susan J. Jan 23, 2018

    where can i go to see the finished images? tried searching for Evas world but got nothing.

  • Lori P. Dec 20, 2017

    I'm loving this class. Thank you. I'm wondering, though, if Sue did the textures/patterns with video before PS CC 2018 came out. I am so disappointed that video files can't be opened with 2018. Has anyone had success with this?

  • Helen B. Sep 29, 2017

    Both of these women and amazing and produce truly inspirational work. However, so far I have been disappointed with this course. I have watched lessons 1 - 4 so far. Lots of chat but little actual educational content. I am hoping that we start to delve into matters a little more concisely soon.

  • Karmen S. Aug 17, 2017

    Amazing class. They walk you through live shoots, editing processes, their inspiration, past work, & business approach. My favorite part was watching Sue being photographed by Lara. Powerful reveal.

  • KRISTINA R. May 13, 2017

    I am so excited about this tutorial. Thank you Lara and thank you Sue Bryce. You are both amazing :)

  • Susie . May 3, 2017

    fantastic to see Lara in this; she's so natural and inspirational, and so generous with her resources. I would love to see her do another course, maybe with Felix too as I love his lighting and creativity. More, please!

  • Esmeralda C. Mar 1, 2017

    Oh my! this was so inspiring! There were some tears and some superb motivation talks, especially Sue Bryce, she gives very emotional great insight. I learned a lot! Thank you!

  • Sara F. Feb 22, 2017

    This is one of my favorite Creative Live classes that I have purchased. Sue Bryce's talks are so incredibly inspirational. Directly after watching this, I was moved to create my own Creative Portrait and loved every moment of it. This WILL get your creativity inspired. You won't regret purchasing this.

  • Sandra S. Jan 12, 2017

    Its good but you do need to have some knowlege of photography to understand the lighting. Also very confusion when she said put the white balance on bulb.. Bulb is something else entirely ..she needs to say..put it on Tungsten which looks like a lightbulb on the camera white Balance settings

  • O. Jan 9, 2017

    Worth every penny. The vulnerability of each lady and the stoicism to keep going and staying focused on doing what you enjoy doing, for your own pleasure regardless of critics, is very much an additional lesson in itself on top of the skills I have taken on board from this brilliant course. Cheers ladies

  • Bill N. Dec 31, 2016

    Maybe I missed it somehow, but here we are taking photos of textures and we come back home happy as can be and "now what?" I have no idea how to load them into Photoshop or access them later. Class is well worth it, but perhaps taking for granted a level of PS expertise not available to all.

  • P. Dec 11, 2016

    Very inspiring class!

  • Lori G. Dec 9, 2016

    Words cannot express my amazement of this course! Two of the most creative ladies coming together in one course...the knowledge I have taken away from this is phenominal ! MOST highly recommended to anyone who loves the idea of creating works of art !

  • Diane H. Jun 24, 2016

    The course was excellent. It opened my eyes to so many different possibilities.

  • France Q. Jun 24, 2016

    This class is very inspirational, and I appreciate both Lara Jade and Sue Bryce for what each of them brings and share. I really learn a lot concerning Photoshop also and I integrate a large part of this knowledge in my own work. I'm also very grateful to discover Alien Skin software in this course also, as it's a part of my post-process now. I'm sincerely grateful!

  • Joanna W. Feb 12, 2015

    i bought this class. I love every bit of it!

  • Lynda A. Nov 17, 2014

    This was a course i wasn't going to buy due to a couple of comments in the reviews, but I am glad I went ahead. I learnt a lot and that was the objective. I really would like to see the finished pictures that Sue was working on. Cassidy in black and floating, in the wall of ivy, Emmas world and the man with the tree roots. Where can we see them? Sue was very inspiring, and her honesty refreshing. I will of course being purchasing more courses. I have 12 at present

  • Sarah B. Oct 8, 2014

    This is the first course that I have ever taken other than watching you tube videos on my own and I am so glad I made the plunge! They really help open up your creativity and show you what you need to know to host your experimental portraiture. Thank you very much Lara and Sue!

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