Profession Photographer - course 141,701 rub. from Skillbox, training, Date: November 29, 2023.

Basic Skills

Photography from scratch 2.0

You will learn how to take photographs with any camera and process images. Learn to work with light and color at a basic level.

• Introduction to Photography
• Mobile photography
• How to choose a camera
• Excerpt
• Diaphragm
• Exposition
• Focusing and Metering
• White balance and temperature
• Light
• Color
• Composition
• Treatment
• Inspiration for the photographer
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• Bonus module. Film photography
• Working with ready-made photos
• Genres of photography

Direction of choice

Advertising photography

Learn how to take image, catalog and product photographs. Find your visual style, understand the trends in advertising photography, and learn life hacks from an experienced photographer. You will be able to create commercially successful photographs.

• Trends in commercial photography
• Brief for advertising shooting
• Preparing for shooting
• Advertising photography in portrait genre
• Lookbook
• Catalog photography
• Object shooting
• Lifestyle advertising photography
• Advertising photography for sports brands
• Beauty shooting
• Food photography
• Advertising photography for Instagram
• Photography as art
• Working with private clients
• Self-presentation
• Bonus module: selecting models and preparing the team for shooting
• Bonus module: type of lighting equipment
• Bonus module: styling in advertising photography
• Bonus module: work between a photographer and a makeup artist
• Bonus module: trends in retouching and processing

Fashion photography

You will understand how the fashion industry works. You can organize a fashion shoot or create your own project. You will understand how to start collaborating with fashion publications.

• Introduction to fashion photography
• Photography and style
• Pre-production
• Fashion magazines
• Social significance of fashion photography and connection with cinema
• History of fashion photography. Main names
• Teamwork
• Editorial is the main genre in fashion photography
• Light
• Analog photography
• Contemporary photographers
• Production and publication
• Filming equipment
• Retouch
• Subgenres of Fashion Photography
• Business: goals and means
• Business: rights and responsibilities
• Personal projects

Product photography

Master all stages of product photography: from concept development to retouching. Learn to choose the right angle and lighting, and work with complex textures. Learn how to shoot for catalogues, magazines and advertising.

• Introduction to Product Photography
• Preparing for shooting
• Light and technology
• Composition and color
• Combinations of materials and set design
• Working with materials and textures
• Shooting on white and colored backgrounds
• Bonus Module: Emotional Intelligence
• Development of the shooting concept
• Project implementation and team work
• Post-production
• Career and development

Portrait photography

You will learn how to take live shots and highlight the model’s strengths using angle and lighting. You will be able to conduct popular individual photo sessions.

• Photography yesterday and today
• Hero in portrait photography
• Portrait photography techniques and equipment
• Photography plan
• Working with the model
• Working on the set
• Complimentary portrait
• Shooting with a portrait photographer
• Professional development of a photographer
• Processing trends
• Portrait color correction
• Retouching portrait photos

Wedding photography

You will understand the trends in wedding photography and learn how to professionally shoot a love story, the bride’s morning, the newlyweds’ walk and the ceremony. You will learn how to liberate a couple in the frame and capture the most emotional moments in the photo.

• Wedding Photography Basics
• Finding inspiration and unique style
• Choosing equipment for wedding photography
• Staged shooting, love story
• Reportage
• Wedding day: morning of the bride, details
• Wedding day: ceremony, banquet
• Personal brand and promotion
• Interaction with the team
• Interaction with clients
• Legal aspects
• Photo selection and color correction
• Photo retouching

Food photography

Learn all stages of food photography: you will be able to develop concepts, build composition, set light and process images.

• Introduction to food photography
• Food photographer tools
• Composition and camera angles
• Natural and impulse lighting
• Food styling
• Development of the shooting concept
• Props in food photography
• Case: solving a client problem
• Photo processing
• How to make money with food photography
• Bonus module: food photo on your phone
• Bonus module: food photography on Instagram

Interior photography

Learn to shoot interiors according to the rules of composition and convey the atmosphere of a residential or public space in photographs. You will understand how to work with furniture, windows, indoor plants and textiles, select angles and lighting.

• Introduction to interior photography
• Angles
• Composition in interior photography
• Light
• Commercial interior photography
• Styling
• Treatment
• Promotion and legal aspects of work

Additional tools

Retouching for a photographer

Learn how to process images efficiently in Photoshop. You can turn ordinary photos into artistic shots.

• Landscape with brushes. Layers
• Scenery. Adjustment layers and masks
• Retouching tools. Dodge&Burn
• Frequency decomposition
• Liquify. Color correction
• Frequency decomposition as a tool for working with texture
• An advanced approach to working with retouching tools
• Dodge&Burn lightening and darkening technique
• Color retouching
• Liquify. Actions. Process setup

Photography PRO

Learn to create a concept for shooting, work with light at an advanced level, build a frame composition and process photos. You will learn how to properly create a portfolio and where to find orders.

• Introduction to the profession
• What's going on behind the scenes
• Bonus module. Basic working kit
• Exhibition PRO
• Working with the model
• Product and interior photography
• Pulsed light
• Constant light
• Mixed light
• Reportage shooting
• Processing PRO
• Drawing with light
• Creating a portfolio
• Legal aspects
• Bonus module. Career in photography
• Psychology and photography

Course of your choice

Adobe Lightroom

Learn Adobe Lightroom and color correction tools from scratch. Learn to remove imperfections from your photos and export them in better quality.

• Introduction to Image Processing
• Introducing Adobe Lightroom
• Import photos
• Library module: photo selection mode, sorting images, working with flags, ratings and tags
• Library module: viewing and processing video, working with metadata
• Develop module: import and create presets
• Develop module: working with exposure, white balance, sliders and histogram
• Develop module: work in the Detail, Lens Correction, Transform, Effects, Calibration tabs and advanced photo processing
• Additional modules Map, Book, Slideshow, Print and Web
• Bonus module: creating panoramas, HDR and interacting with Adobe Photoshop

Capture One

Learn a popular photo editing program from scratch. Learn how to select frames and do color correction during the shooting process.

• Introduction to Image Processing
• Getting started with Capture One, shooting on your computer
• Exposure and color
• Retouching and working with layers
• The nuances of professional work in Capture One
• Working with color
• Working with styles and plugins
• Automation and finalization of processes

Final project

Photographer's portfolio

You will choose a genre, conduct one or more shoots, process photos and create a portfolio.