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LinkedIn Learning

On-the-Spot Business Headshots

via LinkedIn Learning

Overview

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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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