The key to long-term success in your business is building a folio that you love and can sell with all your heart and soul. In this module, we’re going to focus in on what it is you truly love because going after what you truly love and desire will lead to your success. Next, we’ll look at how to put together a studio setup that is basic, beautiful, simple, and affordable. By the end of this lesson, you’ll understand what you need to bring together to start building your folio.

This entire lesson is about locking down camera basics for portraiture. You’ll learn about focus, manual settings, shooting raw, aperture, ISO, lenses, angles, and tilt. Sue will talk you through all the basics, so you will understand how to work with your camera to can capture beautiful portraits.

We as individuals are drawn to different styling in photography, but we should also keep in mind how our clients will want to be photographed. For many people, hair and makeup will be part of that equation. If you are including professional hair and makeup in your brand, it’s important to know how to get it done right. In this lesson, Sue shares how to find high-quality hair and makeup artists, and she also talks about how to build, style, and educate about wardrobe.

There is so much to learn when it comes to posing. We’ve got a massive library of posing for you to learn from. In this module, we’re going to get into the fundamentals, so that you can learn the solid, strong rules of posing. You’ll learn the 5 compositions that will minimize your need to crop in post. And you’ll learn all of Sue’s rules for posing that she developed over years of studying fashion photography and making it relatable for everyday people.

It’s time to learn about lighting! We’ll be working with natural light – indoor and outdoor, strobe light, and constant light, and we’ll see how different backdrops and scrims affect your lighting. Learn how to work with all these types of light from Sue Bryce so that you can master the type of light you are currently working with and explore other methods for lighting.

Now, it’s time to get into post-production. Sue is going to give you the rundown on her Photoshop hacks that make retouching easy and quick, so that you can wrap up your retouching in an efficient way. She’ll go over how to clone and heal skin, remove dots and shadows, and warp responsibly. You’ll also learn how to dodge and burn eyes in a realistic way.