A comprehensive online studio lighting course teaching you how to start a photographic studio and how to use professional lighting equipment for portraiture.

Through the course, you’ll be taught how to set up your own professional studio with limited space, equipment and budget. Learn various lighting set-ups with a variety of equipment to create beautiful portraits that can be made even in a home studio.

This course will show you what equipment to buy, and teach you how to use the flash lighting equipment you may already have properly, to get stunning visual results that will compete with any high-end portraiture.

It will save you time by giving you structured, professional learning with accurate knowledge that will tell you everything you need to know to start your studio lighting career.

Expensive equipment, big studios and professional models will not get you good shots. Your knowledge of the control of studio lighting, coupled with your creativity, will do that. This course will give you that knowledge without using unrealistic resources and ensure you take great portraits.

Take your photography further or start to earn money through studio portraits.

What you will learn

• Correct camera settings for studio lighting
• What a flash sync is
• The effects of various studio lighting equipment
• Recommended equipment for a starting studio
• Types of backgrounds & background support systems
• Lenses and focal lengths for portraiture
• Setting up a studio
• In-depth look at flash heads
• Syncing cameras to flash heads
• Using radio triggers and sync cords
• Using a light meter
• Controlling and balancing stops of light
• How to take exposure readings correctly
• Controlling one light
• How to control stray light
• Using reflected light
• Creating hard light
• Creating soft light
• Creating Low and High Key effects
• Using white, gold and silver reflected light
• Creating and controlling rim lighting
• Creating diffused light        
• Using fill lights
• Using hair lights
• Using master and slave flashes
• Using ND filters for studio portraiture
• Using background lights
• How to balance background & foreground exposures
• Creating crisp white backgrounds
• Using a beauty dish
• Creating multiple lighting set-ups
• Using coloured gels  

Who is this course for?

• Intermediate photographers looking to progress their skills and start in the world of studio portraiture.
• Photographers looking to earn extra income through family, children, corporate or other portraits.
• People with limited budgets and space.
• Photographers wanting to set up their own studio at home or in other spaces.
• Photographers looking to learn how to use studio lighting equipment properly.