COURSE CURRICULUM

Introduction to Romantic Vintage – The Dress

Learn how to create soft and beautiful vintage inspired photographs, using location, wardrobe and technique.

An Overview of Techniques – The Plan

What can we use to bring out the vintage theme? We discuss what to use to complement the theme, via clothing, hair, props and composition.

Starting the Romantic Vintage Inspired Shoot

You will learn how to start the shoot, using light and tying everything together, focusing on softness and an ethereal feel. Think MOOD.

Shooting with Movement and Through Fabric

How you produce movement within your images, this is important to getting that perfect shot. I will show you how to use fabric to enhance your image to get an organic feel.

Shooting in Hard Sunlight

Challenge of shooting in hard sunlight and how to use it to your advantage. At times you get these glaring photos which is not what you are seeing. Take advantage of that bright light and position yourself to capture those “hard to get” lighting scenarios.

Sitting Down Pose With Reflector Then Prism

You will learn techniques to create the romantic, glowing pose, using a reflector and prism to get the old feminine renaissance feel.

Shooting in Direct Sunlight With Subject Laying Down

Getting your shot with a subject laying down can be tricky. Let me show you how to get the angles, posing and light to play to your advantage.

Through the Lace Creating Patterns

Shooting through lace and creating shadows. This creates a really neat glowing/dreamy effect that is versatile for a vintage look, taking your subject from ordinary to extraordinary.

Shooting with Backlight and Leaves

Using backlight can be a happenstance, or you can use it to your advantage. Mother nature can enhance your image with its glow and things that are in your environment.

Facing The Dropping Sun

Using the sun as it sets, knowing you are about to lose your light makes your timing important. Learn to take advantage of the diffused light and the softness it can bring naturally into your frame. This can bring some dramatic detail into your final image.

Shooting in an Open Field and Summary

Our last shots of the day to get in the last few moments of our beautiful light and an overview of all that we accomplished during this creative session.

Post Processing – Retouching the Images, Skin & Hair

Using retouching to clean up the skin and hair. I will walk you through how to blend, sample and stretch from your image to get the best outcome.

Frequency Separation and Editing Eye

Using frequency separation to blend and cover, shadow correction and tips for correcting a blurred eye for clarity.

Dodge & Burn, Color Adjustments and Overlays

Learning to use curves layers for dodging and burning, gradient maps. Use the tools to accentuate highlights and lowlights, enhance depth of field and to warm up your image. Using overlays to get that final vintage feel.

Basic Edit of Image

A quick overview of a basic edit to get your choice image to stand out. Use toning to get the coloring right when you have lighting variance or color differences.

Final Overlays

The final touches, using layers to speed up your work while keeping the original feel of your images consistent and harmonious.