Epic cat portraits photograph yourself

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Cat photography: photograph epic cat portraits yourself

Cat owners like to treat their loved ones to something special. A lucrative market for photographers - if the shots are convincing. In this 2-hour training course, Tobias Gawrisch presents an image style for epic cat portraits that is characterized by drama and expressiveness. Find out how you can create this look yourself with your cat photography and offer it to clients - from preparing the shoot to photo editing.

7 lessons in over 2 hours of video training on photographing and editing cat portraits
Preparation and equipment, shooting, light setup and dealing with cats as well as image editing
From Tobias Gawrisch, who presents you with the essence of many years of experience in cat photography

Fur and whiskers, eyes and expression, color mood and background - learn a workflow for creating epic cat photos - that special something for your clients.

Details

Usable with:
content: 2 h Video training
Licence: private and commercial Rights of use
Bonus: including working material

Examples of use

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Create correctly lit photos and then turn them into epic images.

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Cat pictures like these make all the difference! Learn how to create them in the training.

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In Photoshop, you create textures that you then use as backgrounds in the photos.

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On the shoot: Which lighting setup is suitable? How do you deal with cats?

Intro to the video training

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What you can expect in the video training course "Cat photography: photograph epic cat portraits yourself"

You can expect a video tutorial on how to take epic cat portraits yourself.

Preparation

Photographing epic cat portraits yourself - 1 Preparations & equipment

In this first chapter, you will find out what equipment you can use for a cat shoot, what tools you should have with you and what the lighting setup for the portraits you want to take can look like. I'll tell you exactly what equipment I use for what and why I chose one piece of equipment over another.

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Shooting

Photographing epic cat portraits yourself - 2 The shoot

Now I'll show you what the setup for a cat shoot can look like. I'm working with a cat owner whose three cats we'll be photographing in this chapter. You'll find out how the light should be set and how the cat should be positioned. You will also get tips and tricks on how to handle the animals, even if they are very anxious, for example.

Image processing

Photographing epic cat portraits yourself - 3 Image editing, part 1/3

In this chapter, I will introduce you to image editing with the first image. I will show you the preparations in Adobe Lightroom and the first adjustments and corrections in Photoshop.

Photographing epic cat portraits yourself - 4 Excursus: creating textures

In this tutorial, I'll show you a technique for creating your own textures from scratch in Photoshop. We will use these textures as a new background in our images for further processing.

Photographing epic cat portraits yourself - 5 Image editing, part 2/3

This chapter continues the image editing process and we add the specially created background textures to the cat image to give it a more dramatic look and to adapt the image more closely to the cat depicted.

Photographing epic cat portraits yourself - 6 Photo editing, part 3/3

This is the last chapter on image editing. We'll now apply all the techniques we've learned to a new image and I'll show you some approaches for adjusting the floor on which the cat is sitting. Now you are perfectly prepared for image editing.

Photographing epic cat portraits yourself - 7 Farewell

You've now learned everything I've learned about cat photography over the last four years. You know how to handle the animals during a shoot and how to make the pictures look really epic in post-production. Apply what you've learned to your own or other cats! I hope you have lots of fun with it!

Details of the content

Cat photography with character: create expressive cat portraits
Photographer Tobias Gawrisch has spent the last few years working intensively on cat photography . He has developed an epic style for his animal portraits, which he passes on to you in this training course with all kinds of tips. Take up the workflow and offer your customers convincingly expressive cat portraits of their loved ones.

Preparation for cat photography

The two-hour video training course with seven comprehensive lessons is divided into three sections: The first is preparation , which focuses on the choice of equipment and other useful aids as well as the desired lighting setup. Tobias Gawrisch explains why he decides for or against a particular piece of equipment. A list of the equipment he uses is included with the course.

Shooting the cat portraits

You will then accompany the photographer, cat owner and three cats during the shoot , where the focus will be on lighting and positioning the animals as well as how to handle them. Find out how you can achieve appealing cat portraits with fearful and shy cats by adopting the right behavior.

Create an epic look

Finally, in post-processing , your trainer will show you which Lightroom and Photoshop tools you can use to increase the drama in your images. Among other things, you will make corrections to the hair, for example, create fascinating textures from an empty file and place them in the background of your shots and adjust the brightness. By the way - if you want to photograph dogs, we also have tutorials on studio photography and outdoor photography of dogs.

Cat photography for epic cat portraits - what you'll learn in the course

You'll learn the workflow of a professional photographer to create epic-looking cat portraits. This will add an extra facet to your photographic and image-editing repertoire. Offer your customers something special and open up new areas for your photography.