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1. Introduction: Hi The photographer without
all of the expensive gear, but you own your mobile
phone. Of course you do. Whatever I told you that
you're already on one of the most powerful and
versatile photography tools out there. What's more? I bet your phone is
sitting right next to you. Come on now. I know it is. I'm able to come
Modi, a fashion and portrait photographer
based in Nigeria. I'm also an Adobe rising
star on creative resident. Join me in this
class and you would learn to use your
phone like a pro. Real quick. Let me ask you two questions. Number one, what is the
purpose of photography? The two main goals, or photography or communication
on time cup solution. Capturing a moment in time if photograph can tell a
person, place, animal, or a landscape scenario,
number two question, can these purples be accomplished
with a mobile phone? Yes, yes, it can. And you know it. So why not start fulfilling the purpose of
photography with what you have and stop storing does beautiful Thailand's
of yours away? You would not believe
I started my career as a professional photographer
with an iPod back in 2015. I shot almost everything
I could set my eyes on, including friends,
buckets, college. I just kept shooting and
shooting till again, if form of consistency
and clarity towards what I wants
to build my career on. These days. You can see my work
on Vogue Italia, adobe blocks B ions. I also teach two
classes on Skillshare titled professional
photography on a budget. Editing techniques in
Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom and
portrait photography. The photographers guy to
capture in mood and emotion. I'm excited to teach this
class because I can relate to that feeling of being
stuck and in need of gear. It's not a good feeling, especially because you already possess IT tool that
can help you with your career and workflow while also helping you save
up for an upgrade. I got started this way. And you can see in this class, I will cover number one and getting inspired through
the content you see on your phone to saving these images and creating a
mood board on your phone. Three, planning and shadow
lien issued on your phone for shooting wonderful images
and editing on your phone. Five, sharing your images with
us to inspire us as well. This class is for beginners and also
creatives who are already on their journey and feel limited as a result
of lack of gear. This class is also for those of you wanting to
further explore Adobe Lightroom and improve your editing skills
for any project. By the end of this
class, you would have tossed the feelings
of inadequacy and limitations and picked up your phone to create
marvelous images. They'll keep you inspired
to keep creating more. Let's go
2. Class Orientation: Welcome to cluster orientation. In this lesson, I'll walk
you through how to take this class on what your
class project is about. Your class project is
to shoot an indeed a distinctive for the rough
using your mobile phone. I chose this project because
it's simple to start, easy to follow along with. And also allows for you to make creative choices so that
your photo is truly unique. In this class, you get to surf the Internet for
lovely photo ideas. Save these images to
create a moodboard. Build a set or plan towards one. Create amazing photos. I did these images to
your unique taste. Share with the
class to inspire us and get our heart-felt
thoughts on it. Remember that even if you don't finish editing
your photos, are still love for you
to share any progress you have or inspiration
you've sourced for creating a list of activities to do
before your shoot and after really helps
build a habit of Paul's creativity and the
flow of unique ideas. You eliminate the fear of not achieving what you set
out for when you have a progressive list of
things you should be doing that will aid
your creative process. For this class, you will
need your mobile phone, any editing software you prefer, and a subject who
could be your mom, your sister, your navel, or even that guy
around the corner. You could also bring along a
light reflector, LED lights, or a black promise diffuser, which I will be using to add
some spice to my images. So get ready to open up your favorite source
for inspiration.
3. Creating a Moodboard: In this lesson,
we'll be creating a mood board for our shoot. Starting with organizing
the various ideas you have for a project. Moodboards have so many users. They can be a great asset in ensuring that the
projects are static and design are in line with the objectives and
standards of the user. There are also a great
approach to polish the design of a project before beginning
the actual planning stage. Today we will create a
moodboard using Miller note, Instagram stories,
and Pinterest. I like to use this
three sites because Instagram is really easy to use. Milano it is detailed and enable sharing ideas in a complex
but efficient way. And Pinterest helps curate ideas for chutes
and inspiration. I got to know of melanoma
through a couple of my friends, Mango Street lub, and ever since then I've never stopped
using the application. Today. I'm going to be showing you
what I have on my board. And also creating a board with Instagram using ideas that
I get from Pinterest. Searching through Pinterest, I was able to gather
a collection of images that compose of postures, styles, ideas, locations, on anything really
I want to add to my shoot. I then added these images
onto my mood board on Milano. Using the Photoshop templates, I was able to build a mood
board that was very detailed. At the end of everything,
I could easily exports the board as
a PDF or an image, or also add my team on the platform to be able to
edit the board with me. Then we have Instagram. Instagram is much easier
and much simpler. The presentation, it is not
as complex as Miller nodes, but it gets the work
done basically, Instagram, you simply
open your stories, you open the layouts, you select the grid
pattern you want. Then you add your
images that you've sourced from Pinterest
onto your storyboard. And you simply title it
whatever you want to title it and share this with your team in like
different images. I feel like that gets
the work done and it's actually a much easier
process when you're trying to just quickly create
something or a draft of a mood board to share your ideas with your
model or your team. So let's do a quick recap. The first step in creating a mood board is to
source for ideas. I use Pinterest and I feel like you could use any social
media platform to do this. Second step is to compile and create a mood board with all these ideas and pictures
that you've gotten. We used Instagram
1 million nodes to create the mood board. The third step is to share
this with your team. Don't forget to click
the share button on the image that you've
created for your shoot. So far, we've covered finding inspiration and
creating a mood board. The next step is to
make some calls. So our models and our team
and find a location as well.
4. Planning: Hi there. In this lesson we will be
planning towards making our shoots amazing, uninvolved, involve getting
inspired to create by setting a time
and a date to shoot, getting props and locations, creating looks and outfits, and generally having an
idea you set out to create. So first of all, we're going
to open our moodboards and establish the props we
might need for our shoot. From your mood board,
you should be able to tell what's
particular element or a theme might add spice to the images you've
set out to create. Be paper. It could be glass, it could be sports,
it could be flowers. It could be anything really that could add spice
to your images. Next, we're going to establish
our outfits are now looks. Most of the time you're
stuck in a situation where your model doesn't exactly have the outfits
on the mood board. This is where you plan towards making it something similar. So for me, I went to a market
called Ben non select, where you pick
secondhand clothes. It's easier and cheaper to get whatever you
need for your shoot. And I tried getting exactly what I needed
for my shirt that was somehow similar to what I had in mind from my mood board. Next, you pick a shoot. The peak in India does, is very convenient for you. And the model and
the team as well is really important when
it comes to shooting. Depending on what you
plan on shooting, you could use the
sun as an advantage, or you could use the
Cloud as an advantage, maybe the shade or the rainy
weather, basically, Sue. Help your images. Next, you pick a suitable
location for your shoot. This might be a
stressful activity for some people and might
be easier for some people. When I used to shoot
back in college, it was easier to pick a location because it's
going to be something I've already scouted and I know or have an idea
of how it looks. But being in the outside
world now away from school and away from the
environmental school. I have to actually
go out sometimes to look at these places
before my shoots di. You could also do that and implement it into
your planning phase. And finally, you
share these decisions with your team and your model. Us do a quick recap here. First of all, you open your moodboard and you
establish the props to be used. Next, you establish
your outfits and you'll look after the UP can choose d, and then a suitable location. Lastly, you shared
this with your team. Now that we have made an amazing plan and the whole team is onboard,
we're going out to ship. See you in the next lesson.
5. Shoot Day: Hi there. In this lesson we'll be stepping out to shoot some
amazing portraits. Now that we have made our
moodboard planned well, uncharged up our phones, it's time to get shooting. If you do not have access
to the professional model, feel free to ask your friend, sibling, or even your parents. Pressures is our
model for today. She's an amazing
model I reached out to from social media
for these projects. Picture as a picture. Okay. So, sir, we'll
have you can go on there and then yeah.
Perfect. Thank you. Okay. Let me have pictures. So let's do a wide
angle like the lean. Yeah. Perfect. Okay. Let's try
the foot kicking thing. You have to shift
back a little bit more than we can do it. Okay, Let's do it again. You can constantly do it so
that it doesn't yeah. You can just constantly
kick. Okay. That's okay. Thank you. Then you
can scores for me. Yeah. Perfect. And then say, Well, how's this around? You can step back, Elizabeth. Perfect. Perfect. Okay. So you can look up. Thank you. So I think we're
good there and we're done. Yeah. See me. I remember one of
the props that even use it. The question. Don't worry, there's no need for that too. So I think for this, you can just stand
here and then you just face me on
deacons like yeah. Perfect. Thank you very much. Okay. Perfect. So you can step out
a little bit more. Yeah. So you could do you
could hold it like you can just hold the wall because
I'm making a wide angle. They can make yourself look big, but maybe spreading your
legs a little bit more. Perfect. This is a bit closer. Thank you. Sorry. You can close your eyes whenever
it feels too much. Yeah. Okay. Perfect. So yeah. I think we're done
with the phone photos. For the second sheet, I asked a friend of my
debugger to come in for it. I recently received the package. I got this wrapped up paper which I will use as a
prop for this ****. Okay. So here are some tips when
shooting with your phone. First of all, remember
to clean your camera. As lethal as that sounds, it's actually very
important because your peaches could come out really blurry and
you don't want that, you want sharp and crisp images. Secondly, remember
to use grid lines. If you're not too familiar
with composition, it really goes a
long way in helping you get really good
compost images. Thirdly, don't be scared to adjust your
exposure settings. Sometimes the darker the
image, the beautiful love. It comes out. Well, yeah. There's no, there's no word like Beautiful of the
darker the image, the The more you
might like the image. So don't be scared to adjust
your exposure settings. You could easily make it darker, you could make it lighter. And Tina oven or the image might just
come on how you want it. But that was something
and I can't wait to show you how I
edited these images. For the next step, get your
editing software open. We're going to edit
some amazing images seen in the next lesson.
6. Editing: Hi there. How was should the,
I hope it went well and I'm pretty sure you
created mind-blowing images. Well, let's get to the best part and next part, which is editing. In this lesson, I'll
show you how to edit the photos I shot in
the last video to help your phone photos
stand out among photos taken with other cameras by
giving them a distinctive. First of all, I'm going
to select the best five and added them with
you on my mobile phone, you're using Adobe Lightroom mobile app in case
you don't know. I am a light from
rising star and creative residents and that's why I will be using
the Lightroom app. Feel free to use any other editing applications
during this course. So the steps we're going
to take in this class will be number one to select the images we want a number to import them
into Lightroom app. Number three, edit them
to our tastes using Lightroom color gradient
tools and masking tools. Number for export to them. And number five, post and share them as a project to Skillshare. The first image I want to
edit will be these photo. I took. The first thing I will
do is to check my crop. Normally I flip it to and fro to just see which one works. And I think I like it flipped. So I'm going to
leave it like that. The next step for me would
be to go to my lighting and adjust my exposure contrast highlights basically everything
that adds to the light. And my image is
giving moody tone. So I'm just going to
make the exposure a little bit darker. The next thing will be
to toggle my contrast. And I think I like
the contrast on. So that's about plus 20. The next will be our highlights. I'm going to leave
the highlights up. That's about right, and then our shadows a
little bit here. Perfect. The next thing we'll do is
to just bring our blocks down a little bit,
just like minus four. That, that works perfectly. After that, I go to my color, or rather I go to my curves, sorry, I go to my curves. And then I just make three
points on the curve. And just my blacks elite so
bit and refresh my whites. That's about it. The next thing I'm going
to do in my Carlos is to go to the mix
and then my style, I get rid of greens
most of the time. I'm just going to desaturate
my greens a little bit. Increased illuminance. Also with the yellows. I will just okay. I'll leave it around here. And that should be fine. Yeah, Perfect. Next is gradient. I'm just going to add some
warmth to my shadows. Is yellow. And then this thing
that works, perfect. Next is the effect. For the Effects, you can just depend on what
you want done. I add vignettes to my photos. So I'm just going to
add that, but I'm not going to add too much
because I already intend to use the
masking tool to do some something with the photo. Then just going to feather
that out a little bit. And then I add green as well. So I'm just going to increase the size of my green
and the roughness a little bit and just get
that screen in the perfect. The next thing I will do is go to my mass skin
straight up to my mask and I want to
form shadows behind her. So I'm just going to use
the linear gradients to get those shadows in. I'm going to
subtract higher from the mask so that it doesn't
like heats the subject. And then I'm just going to
adjust the exposure. Perfect. Now I want to make a mask
from the front runner, from here, this
angle here, perfect. And then I'm just going to
subtract from this as well. I'm just going to
add some light to this and reduce my
contrast and add some dehaze in effects. Perfect. The next thing is to also go
back to mask and just select the subjects to increase the
highlights of the subject. Go to light and then just increase highlights
a little bit. Maybe shadows, some shadows. And you're good to go for that. So we just adjust this
crop a little bit more. Yeah. That's for the first
session I had. Okay. So next we have
photos with Deirdre. And the same process, I start with my crop
ICU. What works? And I think I like this
particular crop on So I'm just going to
leave it like this. Next is my lighting and I'm
just going to darken it a little bit because I
prefer Docker images. And then I'm just going
to add some contrast and increase my highlights. I already love how it's looking. I absolutely love
how it's looking. The next thing I'm
going to do is I just live my shadows
like this and then just bring my blacks
down a little bit. I'm not crushing my wife. I like the pulp that it gives, so I'm leaving it like that. Next is my gradient. I'm just going to get migraines. Well, you don't want I think I like the
greenhouse they are. I'm just going to maybe either dominant to little bit tendon. That's, that's okay. Add some warmth to the image. This is, this is good. I don't want to do too much. Next time. I'm going to just go to my
Effects and then just add a vignette and feather
it down a little bit. And then should I get
some green in here? Okay, I think I'm willing to work with someone
so much greens. I'll just leave it at
13:37 is a good value. Next is masking. And basically I have this
idea right now in my head. If you can notice there at
like lethally two sons, I saw light patches on his face. I want to emphasize those patches and just
give it like that feeling like son was escaping from
a bunch of trees and stuff. So I'm just going to put
my mask on these patches. And let's see what
we can do with that. And everyone whose body as
well, There's this amazing. So now we're just going to
lift those highlights are, and we're going to
just lift them. Lift them to the Lord. We're yeah, that's,
that's, that's really it. So this is how this
image it looks and I absolutely love the outcome. I love it compared
to before and after. Next we're going to next we're going to edit
like the indoor photo, the one I took with the prop, which is the paper, the thing. So I think we have
the image here. The first thing I'm also
going to do is check my crop. I think I love the
flipped version better. So I'm just going to use
the flipped version. Next. Lightest usual. Get that light out. Already. Love what the
highlights are doing to the cardboard or
to the sheet rudder. And you can bet I'm
going to increase those, like the highlights of that. We just increased
highlight here. Our blocks in same thing we color just in case there are any greens where
I thought the greens, we just capitalize on those yellows and just
increase the luminance? Yeah. Yeah, that's it. That's basically it. Effects year. We want some vignettes
this time around. We're really keen
on those vignettes. And then we further
result. Of course. The next thing we're going to
do is go back to our mosque in and just get the
brush tool and just brush over like all
this hatches of lights. I really want to
emphasize those weights. Patches rather. Yeah. Other than we're
just going to heat, you must get it perfect because
I think that's the beauty of the patches tend not like
all perfect and everything. So you can just brush all over
like a reasonable portion. And then one thing I don't
like is the pink on his lips. He's a dark model and
it feels like my colors and the little stuff I did on the Color panel
increased like those pink. So I'm just trying to
go and get it out. I'm just going to check purple. If it's purple or
check pink here. I think I've gotten it out. Yeah. So let's see
what else gradient. Now, let's try and make this
a little bit more dramatic. So I'm just going
to add some warmth, then give my shadows dots and then add some
midtone as well. Yeah, I think this works for me. Turn bluish green. Then just see if I can
blend it a little bit. Okay. Then I'm trying to see if there's anything
I can do my lie. Okay. So now on Wednesdays I'm
just going to invert this. So I added a circular gradient. I was just trying
to be creative with the photo and didn't just
want to leave it like that. So I just went to
gradients and I added a CircleUp gradients and
I'm about to invert it. So I'm just going to try and
centralize it on his face. And then with the inversion, I should just reduce the
exposure a little bit. So it just comes
off as this dark, moody, dramatic vibe, which I think we have
achieved with this photo. And that's how easy
it is to create professional images
with your phone. In the next lesson,
we will be covering some hacks that could help your career in
phone photography. See you there.
7. Hacks: Hi guys. In this lesson, we'll be talking about some tips and tricks that can help improve your
mobile phone photography. Number one trick we're going
to talk about is grid lines. As you all know, composition
is a major theme in photography and he helps
create outstanding photos. Grid lines help guide your photo and your composition in
a way that you could monitor and keep track of what you want in your
photo on what you don t want. You could easily set this up by going into your settings and your camera settings and
facing in any type of grid. Layout to number two, setting your camera's focus. You could easily just tap on your screen or on
your subjects on the screen and make sure that focus is locked in
before pressing the shutter. Remember that creativity is, is a very, it's, it's more of a
self-definition of theme. So you could also not have focused on those images
will still bind. But it's good to have your
subject in focus when it comes to shooting portrait photographs that
are professional. Number three is HDR. High dynamic range. Hdr in camera helps you get great shots in
high-contrast situations. Number four is the
evil comedy theme, which is natural light. I love shooting
natural light and I barely have to have any
secondary light in my sets. But enjoy shooting
natural lights. Get used to shoot in natural
lights because it helps you get accustomed to various
settings around you. It makes you more conscious
of your surrounding, makes you more conscious of how the light hits the model's
face or the subject. And I think this is a great thing to have
early in your photography, which is that consciousness
of light and your subject. So shoot with natural light. It helps. If you're starting out
in portrait photography, start with one subject, get used to one subject first before elevating
into more subjects. Hold your phone still. Yeah. I know. I know.
All right. Yeah. Johan can shake. That's why I'm
giving you this tip. Just try and hold your
phone still while capturing photos so you
can get that focus. Sharp focus. The next tip is considered
buying a mobile tripod. So you could easily see how handy mobile tripod
comes in when you start shooting long
exposures or when you should self portrait of
yourself, obviously. But yeah, you should
get immobile tripod. It's a game changer
when it comes to investing in yourself and invest in your career
as a portrait photographer. The next is embracing
negative space. So your grid lines would
help you in this aspect because negative
space is all about composition and
just like shooting, shooting minimalistic
photos basically, and you wouldn't really have an advanced idea of how to do this without
your grid lines. So once you incorporate
the first step, this step shouldn't
be a problem. I'm pretty confident that these tips and tricks
will greatly improve your perception of spaces and your subjects when
shooting with your phone. In the next lesson, we will talk about what we've learned so far. See you there.
8. Conclusion: Look into a professional
photographer. I'm proud of you and what
you have created so far. Phones are investments that
can generate you more money, help you with your
career and confident and improve your overall productivity
if utilized properly. So don't waste time pressing phone like our African,
what does this say? You use it to generate
something for yourself. Here's a quick recap of what we talked about in this course. Number one is planning, which includes
creating a mood board. Number two is shooting, which is getting the
actual work done. Number three, number four, or the hacks, the tips and tricks that will
help your photography. I hope this course inspires
you to charge your phone and go out and shoot something
great that you know, come out amazing because
of what you've planned. Remember to post your projects no matter what stage you're at, so that we can
share some love and give you some positive feedback. Also feel free to post your images and use
the hashtag able cost Skillshare to enable me to check out these images
and share them as well. If you enjoyed this class, please leave a review and
follow my teacher profile. I'll be teaching
lots of stuff about photography and I can't
wait to see you soon.
Ebuka Mordi, Nigerian portrait & fashion photographer
