Summerana instructor Deborah Koch shows you her step-by-step process for scouting, posing, and shooting to achieve spectacular golden hour maternity photos. Plus editing tutorial to turn your images into a fine art portrait.
In this two part tutorial you will learn how to:
- How she chooses location to achieve her desired look
- Posing tips & prompts, what to do vs what not to do to achieve flattering curves and shapes
- Camera settings with explanations as to her choices
- Shooting position - how she positions herself to avoid common mistakes
- Backlighting
- Use Lightroom tools to best enhance critical details
- Clone stamp to remove distracting elements
- Brush tool to blend different natural elements and colors
- Liquify to shape the body, hair, and gown
- Curves to darken the background making the subject pop and soften image
- Levels to pull highlights to subject and brighten skin
- Hue & saturation with solid color layer to alter grass color
- Selective color to add rich color to backlight
- Patch tool to remove wrinkles on gown
- Summerana skin soft action to smooth skin
- Dodge & Burn through levels & curves to add depth
- Dodge tool to brighten magical light in background
- Selective color to alter dress color
- Summerana sun flare to add beautiful light
[ Summerana Members already have access to this tutorial and more in their membership library ]