PORTRAITS & LIGHTING
Photography Course
Master the skills and gain the confidence to photograph what will always be the premier subject for anyone with a camera—the human face.
In this course Nick distills decades of professional experience into 8 memorable, content-packed weeks, you’ll learn natural and artificial lighting techniques used by pros since the beginning of photographic portraiture to create beauty and drama—while embracing the amazing capability of 21st century technology. Learn all aspects of portraiture including posing, directing, the home studio, locations, editing, and common business practices.
Watch Nick’s Video Introduction
to “Portraits & Lighting” Below
The course videos are marvelous. I know the concepts are more complicated than you make them sound—but that is the beauty of your teaching style. You make all of us believe in ourselves.
Take Portraits Like a Pro!
Learn to take professional-looking portraits that will make you and your subjects proud! (Choose full participation or self-study.)
How the class works
Nick Kelsh’s Portraits & Lighting Photography Course is structured into eight modules, which you can complete over 8 weeks in our Full-Participation Course. In each lesson, Nick presents a series of short, informative and entertaining videos to guide you along the road to taking professional looking portraits. Over the course of these lessons he will cover just about all aspects of beginner and advanced portrait photography. He uses an easy going style and friendly repetition until the aha moments happen. Nick’s supportive attitude and decades of experience will have you capturing the faces of the people you love that will live forever as family treasures.
Watch the videos and review material on your own time; then take the quiz to test your comprehension of the material. There’s no pressure—only you will see your score. Nick provides a video review of the questions, explaining the right and wrong answers.
Put the lessons to practice with the photography assignments and upload your pictures to the online student photo gallery. Your classmates can offer constructive feedback and you will gain a lot from evaluating other students’ photographs and comments. Learn from your fellow students by participating in the discussion forums as well. When you purchase the full participation course, you receive the benefit of personal feedback from Nick on all the photos you post, enabling you to improve with every photo you take.
Nick hosts online Q&A Zoom sessions to give you additional review or explanation of challenging topics. Webinars are offered at varying times to accommodate a range of time zones and schedules. Don’t worry if you can’t make the live webinars, you can always watch the recording at your convenience.
We know that you will want to review parts of the course as your skills improve, so all course materials are archived and you’ll have complete access to the course website and community for a lifetime.
By the end of this course, you’ll have the technical know-how, tips & tricks of the trade and the confidence to capture the precious faces in your life with photographs you’ll be proud of and others will rave about. It’s a truly rewarding gift to yourself, to your family and friends, and to future generations who’ll cherish the beautiful life-enriching photographic portraits you learn to shoot in Nick Kelsh’s Portraits & Lighting Photography Course.
Nick Kelsh's Portraits & Lighting Photography Course
Available in 2 Versions:
Take a moment to explore the two distinct learning options we offer—choose the one that suits your learning style.
Self-Study Course
- ✔ 8 Lesson Modules
- ✔ Multiple format lessons: written/video
- ✔ Before & after examples of techniques
- ✔ Over 40 archived tutorial videos
- ✔ Photo assignments for lessons
- ✔ (NEW) Lifetime access to course lessons
- ✔ Money Back Guarantee
Interactive Course
- ✔ 8 Weekly Lesson Modules
- ✔ Multiple format lessons: written/video
- ✔ Before & after examples of techniques
- ✔ Weekly quiz with Nick’s video review
- ✔ Private Class Facebook Group for student photo assignments and discussion
- ✔ Personalized feedback from Nick
- ✔ Limited class size
- ✔ Individual support when necessary
- ✔ (NEW) Facebook Learning Group format: posts organized into Guides and you can mark what you’ve seen/done to stay on track
- ✔ (NEW) Topic hashtags to organize/find topic or lesson specific photos, questions, comments
- ✔ (NEW) Extra Facebook Live teachings
- ✔ (NEW) Weekly Zoom Office Hours for Q&A
- ✔ (NEW) Facebook Room videoconference chats
- ✔ (NEW) Lifetime access to course lessons
- ✔ Money Back Guarantee
- NOTE: Start dates will be indicated on the checkout page. If no dates are displayed or the dates have expired and are beyond the 8-week window, it indicates that the next class has not been scheduled yet.
