Creative Portrait Photography Series: Outdoor Milk Bath

Learn how to create stunning 'dreamy water' style images on a budget, including setup, shoot and retouching in Photoshop

3.80 (50 reviews)
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5.5 hours
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Oct 2018
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What you will learn

Create pool-style portraits on a small budget - including detailed prop shopping tips

How to visualize the setup and consider the location

Know what the best camera settings are for your project, as well as tips for flash

Posing tips on how to shape the model in a small space

Understand how to use the light meter

3+ hours of Adobe Camera Raw and Photoshop to retouch your images - these tricks will help you in all your future portrait shoots!

Description

Featured Review: 

"This tutorial is first-rate! It shows step-by-step the process of doing an outdoor creative water shoot, and is loaded with helpful tips on how to do it (based on first-hand experience). Highly recommended for anyone interested in doing this super-creative type of shot!" - Dave Palmer

Are you looking for fresh inspiration in your beauty and fashion photography?

Do you want to take advantage of the nice weather and bring your photography sessions outdoors?

Do you suffer from a slow summer season and need new ways to attract more clients?

Do you want to create jaw dropping mini sessions to boost your income?


Do you want to stand out from the crowd, wow your clients and attract models with eye-catching photography?

Then this course is perfect for you. Celebrate the summer with a magazine style 'pool shoot' that is playful with a gorgeous feminine yet empowering look! Your clients will feel like top models in the Caribbean - and what's more, creative portrait photography doesn’t have to break the bank. There are no borders to conceptual photography, as we'll show you with inexpensive props and a small outdoor area.

You’ll be amazed at what you can do with just a kiddie pool, bath drops, flowers, milk and other creative props!

You will learn:

  • Preparing the shoot - location, practical considerations.

  • Posing tips when the model is lying in the kiddie pool.

  • Camera settings, using a light meter, flash and natural lighting options.

  • Fly on the wall view of 3 photoshoot sets - water, colors and flowers, milk 'hot pink'.

  • 3+ hours of Adobe Camera Raw and Photoshop videos to transform the images into stunning works of art!

Do you love working with flash? Natural light? Both?

Sandy and Matt will cover flash techniques and camera settings, as well as the best ways to take advantage of natural light to get the most variety from your shoot.

First, Sandy and Matt take you through the preparation and set up of the shoot, including what props to buy, practical tips on handling posing your model in water, and camera and lighting settings. Then you'll get a fly on the wall view of the shoot that implements all the ideas so you can do exactly the same.

Then Sandy walks through a complete, comprehensive Adobe Camera Raw and Photoshop set of tutorials (over 3 hours) on how to transform the images into amazing works of fine art. At the end, your images will look like they belong in a high fashion magazine and your clients will receive a truly unique style of photography that sets you apart from your competitors.

Whether you are a beginner DSLR photographer or a seasoned pro, you will find a host of tips and tricks that will help you create fantastic images. 

This highly practical course shows you a new way of beauty photography - how to create a ‘dreamy water’ pool-style that will be an outstanding addition to your portfolio. If you want to achieve higher sales, and help to think outside the box for your next photoshoot, then this course is for you!

Content

Preparation

Introduction
Finding The Right Location
Location: The Kiddie Pool And Its Challenges
Working Around The Kiddie Pool Size Limitations
Going Shopping!
Walk Through Of All The Props
The Flow of the Shoot
Camera Equipment: Lens and Flash
Camera Settings: Aperture Effects and Shutter Speed
Camera Settings: Using an Assistant, Reflectors and White Balance
Posing the model
Using a lightmeter

The Shoot

Photoshoot: Set 1 - Kiddie Pool and Water
Photoshoot: Set 2 Prep- Adding Color and Flowers to the Water
Photoshoot: Set 2 - Color and Flowers
Photoshoot: Set 3 - Adding Milk for a Hot Pink Effect

Workflows in Adobe Bridge - Choosing the Images

Editing Intro - Recap and Review of Images
Workflow - Narrowing Down The Images with the Red Label
Workflow - Narrowing Down The Images with Star Rating
Workflow - Things to Look Out For in your Shoot and in your Images
Workflow - Recognizing Good Poses and Posing Tips

Editing Image 1 - the ' Caribbean Fashion Look'

Adobe Camera Raw (ACR) - Basic Adjustments for the 'Caribbean Fashion Look'
ACR - Color Correction and Sharpening for 'Caribbean Fashion'
Lightroom Overview - Conversion for the 'Caribbean Fashion Look'
Adobe Photoshop (PS) - Painting the Pool
Adobe PS - Correcting Pool and Skin with the Healing Brush, and Water Texture
Adobe PS - How to Add Water Textures
Adobe PS - Water Color Correction in ACR
Adobe PS - Body Shaping with Transformation and the Liquify Filter
Adobe PS - Skin Preparation: How to use the Channel Mixer as a 'Help Layer'
Adobe PS - Skin Retouching (Shine Removal) with Frequency Separation
Adobe PS - Skin Softening with the 'Powder Technique'
Adobe PS - Enhancing Shadows and Highlights with Dodge and Burn
Adobe PS - Adding Contrast with the Gradient Map
Adobe PS - How to Darken the Skin for the 'Caribbean Fashion Look'
Adobe PS - Fine Tuning the Water with the Smart Filter
Adobe PS - Intensifying Make-Up for the 'Caribbean Fashion Look'
Adobe PS - Fine Tuning the Image with Patch Tool, Clone Tool and Airbrush
Adobe PS - Soft and Glamorous Glow with the Nik Filter
Adobe PS - Sharpening the Image

Editing - Image 2 'Caribbean Fashion Look'

Copying ACR Settings Between Images to Save Time
Copying Adobe PS Information Between Images to Speed Up Your Workflow
Intro to the Realtime Edit
Adobe PS - Watch me Edit (Pool Painting)
Adobe PS - Speed up Your Workflow with the Color Range (Water Texture)
Adobe PS - Body Shaping with the Liquify Filter
Adobe PS - Retouching the Skin (Frequency Separation, Powdering, Tanning, D&B)

Editing Image 3 - Dreamy Water Colors, Flowers and Feathers

ACR - Synchronizing Settings Between Images, Purple Water and Flowers
Adobe PS Part 1 - Dreamy Water Editing with Smart Objects and Color Range
Adobe PS Part 2 - How to Achieve the 'Dreamy Water' Colors
Bonus: How to Clone Flowers From One Image to the Other

Editing Image 3 - Speed Editing the Hot Pink Look

Speed Editing - Putting it all Together with a Fly on the Wall Speed Edit

Bonus Content

Flower Crown - overview
Flower Crown - putting it together

Thank You!

Summary and Thank You
PRACTICE IMAGES

Screenshots

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Reviews

Indra
April 18, 2020
They are taking to long to explain a single thing, Also, thats complete course on tub photography and their is not any not or description relate with that, Am completely disatisfied with this course
Josh
November 16, 2018
Excellent overview and clear presentation of props, camera settings and equipment needed to create your own Caribbean style shoot.
Henry
March 19, 2018
I learned More editing knowledge and creativity the instructor is more knowledgeable about the topic
Eva
December 1, 2017
This course takes you through every detail to reproduce this outdoor shoot; I think with all the information I'll be able to set up and do this shoot. The instructor clearly has a lot of fun preparing and running the shoot :)
Juliya
November 21, 2017
I like how they go into a lot of detail about what to buy, how to set things up .... I think they make it easy to take these tips and instructions, and actually do the same thing in your own shoot
Vera
November 19, 2017
Fun and interesting descriptions on how to create a swimsuit style photoshoot. Very clear and easy to follow, which will be very helpful in setting it up to follow. Sandy lists out everything you need and how to do it.
Brian
November 18, 2017
I am looking forward to putting these ideas into practice at a shoot. The explanations are perfect for someone looking to follow instructions to get to the point. All props explained deeply and demonstrated clearly!
Tunde
November 3, 2017
thorough instructions, the course enables a complete beginner to complete a project and produce professional looking images.
Elizabeth
September 27, 2017
I think the course is great. It would be really nice to have some photos to download and work on along side the course, so you can practice instead of just listening. I think this course would be somewhat difficult if you were a complete photoshop beginner. Some things are explained well, but other simple things are not broken down such as channel layers, curves layers, how to select colors with the brush tool etc . If you have the absolute basics down like how to copy, paste, make a group, add layers etc. you should be fine.
Keavy
August 29, 2017
Such a cool practical class - Sandy and Matt have a lot of fun and it's inspiring me to go and do the same. Looking forward to the photoshop part!
Charles
August 21, 2017
Practical, fun and definitely useful - I will be able to take this tips and use them in my next shoot.
Cindy
August 9, 2017
I'm really loved this course. There is so many things I am learned...Plus the step by step on Photoshop is definitely helpful. I created my own water photos and they turned out great thanks to this course!
Dave
July 17, 2017
This tutorial is first-rate! It shows step-by-step the process of doing an outdoor creative water shoot, and is loaded with helpful tips on how to do it (based on first-hand experience). Highly recommended for anyone interested in doing this super-creative type of shot!
Pocholo
July 9, 2017
I really loved this course! It shows you a very innovative setup that's composed of items you can easily purchase anywhere; and the end result is a very unique and colorful photo theme. I also appreciated the detailed workflow walk-through as it's full of useful tips and techniques that would benefit any photographer.
Matthew
July 5, 2017
What I like about this course is the immediate payback of seeing where to buy things, and what camera settings to use for this type of shoot. The Photoshop section is icing on the cake.

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