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Portrait Photography 101 – How to Use Natural Light

Portrait Fundamentals 101 - Portrait Photography using Natural Light

In this 12 part course covering over 3.6 hours of natural lighting for portrait photography, you’ll learn everything you need to know to get your BEST portraits using natural light indoor and outdoors.

Watch and learn as Darlene Hildebrandt teaches the fundamentals of natural light from start to finish, while working with professional models both indoor and out. During the harshest light of the day as well as indoor window light and during golden hour. If you’re looking to get the best photographs of your friends, family, kids or grand children, this course is for you.

USD$ 59.00

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portrait photography using natural light

Portrait Photography 101 is your introduction to mastering the use of natural light for your portraits.

Whether you’re photographing your subject indoors or outdoors, your instructor Darlene Hildbrandt will show you exactly how to make the best use of the natural lighting you have. Or, how to move to better light. Don’t worry, she’ll show you how.

Natural Lighting With Little to NO Equipment

Natural light portraits are the simplest way to learn how to improve your people pictures.

There’s little to no investment needed as you’re making use of natural light from the sun. Where needed, a simple reflector comes in quite handy, and is an inexpensive piece of equipment to have.

If even discussing these things is starting to confuse you, don’t worry at all.

You’ll have plenty of video explanations as well as written documentation and notes, tools and whatever you need, and I won’t let you get away without practical exercises to perform to anchor you new training.

Perfect for Beginners

Who’s this course for? It’s perfect for beginners who just want to take advantage of the tools they already have.

Natural lighting.

If you just need to see how it’s done, working with real people and someone to walk you through it, and held accountable with exercises and quizzes, this portrait photography 101 course

darlene hildebrandt beginner photography course instructor

Your Instructor

Darlene Hildebrandt has been a professional photographer since 1987. She’s owned a photography studio, done every type of photography from food to portraits, and has photographed over 250 weddings.

She has done photography business coaching as well as retouched physical negatives in a dark room.

With the advent of digital photography, Darlene moved into Lightroom and Photoshop since there inception in 1995 and has now added Luminar Neo to her digital workflow.

She has led photography tours around the world, lead workshops in multiple countries and teaches her photo editing skills through Lightroom, Photoshop, and Luminar Neo courses and classes here on Digital Photo Mentor.

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