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LinkedIn Learning

On-the-Spot Business Headshots

via LinkedIn Learning

Overview

Get tips for taking great outdoor and indoor headshots, whether you're working without gear or with the best equipment on the market.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • What you can learn in this course
1. Outdoor Headshots with No Gear
  • Outdoor headshots with no gear
  • Background choices and lighting assessments
  • Lens choice and posing tips
  • Camera settings and shooting
2. Indoor Headshot with No Gear
  • Indoor headshot with no gear
  • Turning a window into a lighting source
  • Getting the right camera settings
3. Outdoor Headshot with Some Gear
  • Using minimal gear for outdoor headshots
  • Controlling the source lighting
  • Controlling motion blur
4. Indoor Headshots with Some Gear
  • Using minimal gear for indoor headshots
  • Turn one light into three
  • Camera and flash settings for indoor headshots using minimal gear
5. Outdoor Headshot with Upgraded Gear
  • Using upgraded gear for outdoor headshots
  • Camera settings and posing tips for outdoor headshots using upgraded gear
6. Indoor Headshot with Upgraded Gear
  • Using upgraded gear and lighting for indoor headshots
  • Camera settings for upgraded indoor headshots
7. Editing in Lightroom
  • Setting color correction, contrast adjustments, and cropping in a business headshot
  • Improve the appearance of under eyes with the healing tools
  • Improve the appearance of under eyes with the masking tools
  • Improving the appearance of blemishes in a headshot
  • Improving the appearance of imperfections in a headshot
  • Lightroom Classic Masking Overview
  • Adding a light to a headshot background
  • Selecting various features of subjects in a headshot
  • Enhancing the skin appearance in a headshot
  • Enhancing a subject's features in a headshot
  • Creating presets to use across multiple headshots
  • Reusing presets across multiple headshots
  • Thank you and free preset gift
Conclusion
  • Next steps

Taught by

Kristina Sherk

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