[Photography and Videography Techniques] 2.Portrait Photography
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Lesson Code: TCEN2025H039

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Academic Hours
4.70hours
Publish Date
Dec 2025

Lecturer

1. Lecturer SHI YanglanQuanzhou Huaguang Vocational College

General Introduction
This course is designed to cultivate trainees’ artistic literacy and creative skills in bridal and portrait photography. The course emphasizes practical training across multiple categories of portrait work, including lighting for portrait photography,
basic portrait techniques, artistic portrait shooting, and themed portrait creation. It also includes post-production portrait retouching, strengthening trainees’ professional capabilities and overall competence in bridal and portrait photography.

This Course is for
1. Helping trainees master the techniques of portrait-photography lighting, basic portrait shooting, artistic portrait creation, and themed portrait production.
2. Helping trainees develop proficiency in lighting arrangements for portrait photography, fundamental portrait-shooting methods, artistic-portrait lighting techniques, and aesthetic judgment in portrait work.
3. Enabling trainees, through lighting practice and basic portrait-shooting exercises, to develop a clear understanding of commercial bridal-photography techniques and to acquire and internalize the fundamental patterns of basic portrait-photography workflows.

Learning Materials

1. Corresponding PPT
2. Online Course Video
3. Simulation Question Banks

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Benefits of Learning

1. Being able to demonstrate professional ethics, resilience, dedication to refinement and innovation, and a strong spirit of teamwork.
2. Capable of acquiring the essential professional skills required in portrait-photography work and be capable of independently completing basic portrait-photography tasks.
3. Being able to develop industry awareness through targeted curriculum restructuring, informed by learning-needs analysis based on the competency requirements of portrait-photographer positions and the inherent principles of portrait-photography workflows.

Courses Videos
1.1 An Overview of Portrait Photograph.mp4play1.2 Equipment Choices for Portrait Photography.mp4play1.3 Lens Selection.mp4play1.4 Essential Camera Functions.mp4play1.5 Selecting Props for Portrait Photography.mp4play2.1 Portrait Photography Composition Techniques.mp4play2.2 Direction & Angle.mp4play2.3 Common Composition Forms.mp4play2.4 Portrait Photography Shot Sizes.mp4play2.5 Using Contrast Creatively.mp4play2.6 Employment of color.mp4play3.1 Communication with Models.mp4play3.2 Homo Sapiens Photography Poses and Styling.mp4play3.3 Hand Posture.mp4play3.4 Standing Posture.mp4play3.5 Sitting Posture.mp4play3.6 Kneeling,Leaning,Lying,and Movements.mp4play3.7 Candid & Posed Photography.mp4play4.1 The Use of Reflector.mp4play4.2 The Use of Portable Flash.mp4play4.3 Shooting Location Portrait Photography – Classroom.mp4play4.4 Shooting Location Portrait Photography – Library.mp4play4.5 Shooting Location Portrait Photography – Playground.mp4play4.6 Shooting Location Portrait Photography – Shopping Mall.mp4play5.1 Lighting Brands and Applications.mp4play5.2 Operating the Flash.mp4play5.3 Operation of the Light Meter.mp4play5.4 Light Patterns.mp4play5.5 Lighting Ratio.mp4play5.6 Classic Portrait Lighting – Flat Light.mp4play5.7 Classic Portrait Lighting – Butterfly Light (Part 1).mp4play5.8 Classic Portrait Lighting – Butterfly Light (Part 2).mp4play5.9 Classic Portrait Lighting – High & Low Light.mp4play5.10 Classic Portrait Lighting – Rembrandt Light.mp4play5.11 Classic Portrait Lighting – Side Profile Light.mp4play5.12 Classic Portrait Lighting Yin-Yang Light and Silhouette Light.mp4play6.1 Mobile Editing App - Xingtu Creative.mp4play6.2 Mobile Post-Production:Prism Stylization and Snapseed Creativit.mp4play6.3 Applications of Color Balance.mp4play6.4 Understanding Histograms.mp4play6.5 Image Cutout Techniques.mp4play

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