Fundamentals of Photography
John Greengo
Create, Source and Composite backdrops
Learn how to source, put together and polish backgrounds for your images by utilizing everyday objects, set design, and compositing. Award-winning and fine art photographer Brooke Shaden, shares her secrets to creating the magic behind her subjects. Not having a big budget or a great location should never stop someone from creating images that look expensive and refined.
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For a short course, this is phenomenally helpful, instructive, and inspiring. Now on to the longer courses. Thank you, Brooke!
BONJOUR À L'ÉQUIPE, J'AI ADORÉ CETTE SUPER FORMATION. TOUS LES ÉLÉMENTS IMPORTANTS SONT PRÉSENTS, SOIT DE LA PRISE DE PHOTOS AD LA COMPOSITION. MERCI.
Thank your for doing this class. This was the best explanation of using layers and Curves to make adjustments and also bringing In parts of multiple photos Please keep posting more classes Gigi
Brooke is one of my favorite teachers and this class did not disappoint! Loved it!
Brooke is a great teacher. Really enjoyed this!!
I really liked this class. There are so many ways to accomplish the look and feel that you want. It's nice to see the variety of ways people use their own processes and pick and choose what works best for you. Great job Brooke. You related very well, and were very thorough with the steps your explained.
This was a great course by Brooke Shaden. I know I will be re-watching it more. Brooke is a very talented artist and I got a lot out of the course.
Great course with useful content and excellent delivery - Brooke is very informative, pragmatic and efficient. Well worth it!
Enjoyed this. Learned lot when she worked on her process with using curves & feathering. Like her workflow. I enjoy compositing but light and shadow has always been an issue and now I understand. Thanks Brooke
Love this class. it was simple short and to the point. It's a good start to using backdrops and cutting out subjects.
If I would recommend this class, I'm not sure. For a beginner this is quite unclear with all the unnamed layers...
Fabulous content, easy to follow and understand and I loved her tips on shadows!
This class was amazing! It had tons of compositing tips for photo believability that I didn't know as well as how to think out the process before taking the photo. I hate being my own subject, but this has given me confidence to do more self portraits😊
I was disappointed that the fine details where not implemented from start to finish... Thats why I bought it to see a full edit. Now i have to buy another in hopes. No i won't . Beautiful Images and great work but a full edit from beginning to end would be appreciated and if you could send me in the right direction so I don't make the same purchasing mistake . ty
Parts 6 and 7 are some of these best Photoshop instruction I've ever seen.
I would recommend the class to anyone that has an interest in composing and learning how to blend and tone objects and how to place objects in background. I was looking more for creating backgrounds, but this was just as good. Some of Brooke's techniques are interesting to say the least as in a few i would use a different tool, but that is what makes this class different in that there is another way of accomplishing a result using another technique which I'm sure I use. I will watch this a few more times. It was well presented and explained. Thanks Brooke....
Interesting material and lots of good pointers, but the title is very misleading. This is not about creating backdrops, it's about putting objects onto existing backdrops to create composite images. A better title would be "Compositing 101"
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