What's Inside:

  1. 1

    • Welcome to Luxury Maternity Photography Academy

    • Course resources
  2. 2

    • Introduction: The Art and Business of Maternity Photography - Webinar Recording

    • How to Stand Out as Maternity Photographer

    • Why Offer Maternity Photography

    • Maternity Session Formats & Types
  3. 3

    • Indoor Maternity Photography: Intro

    • Indoor & Studio Photography - Specifics, Pros & Cons

    • My Camera and Lenses

    • Natural Light Indoors - Equipment

    • Window light and how to work with it: light quality, direction, how to control it

    • Flat Light - Window Light Indoors

    • Side Light - Window Light Indoors

    • Back Rim Light - Window Light Indoors

    • Silhouette - Window Light Indoors

    • Reflectors and how to use them with natural window light

    • Natural Light Photo Shoot in the Studio

    • Adding Continuous LED Lights
  4. 4

    • Introduction Into Impulse Light (Flash) Basics

    • Flash Sync Speed - Normal Flash

    • High Speed Flash Sync and How It Works

    • Mixing Flash or Strobe with Ambient Light and My Personal Preferences on Setting up my Lights

    • Speedlight Settings and How to Sync Flash to Your Camera
  5. 5

    • Why and How I use Off Camera Flash Indoors

    • Off Camera Flash - Light Direction & How to Bounce for Soft Even Light

    • Bounced Off Camera Flash Light: Distance & Flash Power

    • Indoor Maternity Photo Shoot with Off Camera Flash
  6. 6

    • Essential equipement for a Mobile studio setup on the go

    • Mobile Studio Set Up - Essential Kit

    • How to Set Backdrop Anywhere

    • My Favorite Seamless Paper Backdrops - Colors, Sizes

    • Studio Light On the Go - Options

    • My First Small Home Studio

    • Studio Strobe Settings & How I shot with My Old Cheap Strobes

    • My current Studio Strobe, Trigger & Settings I use

    • Studio Equipment Guide
  7. 7

    • Intro: Studio Strobes

    • Flash Synch Speed with Strobes

    • How to eliminate Available Light in the Studio: Option 1 - F-Stop

    • How to eliminate Available Light in the Studio: Option 1 - Shutter Speed & HSS

    • Simple One Light Setups in a Small Studio Space

    • One light studio setups for timeless Magazine Style Maternity Photography

    • One Studio Strobe - Overhead Light

    • One Light: Poses on the Floor

    • Strip Rim Light - Low Key - One Studio Light + V-Flats

    • Rim Light - Low Key Silhouette on Black

    • Silhouette On White Backdrop with Strobes

    • Silhouette on White Backdrop with Speedlights

    • Creative Shadows with Video Lights and Lace

Learn how to get consistently beautiful lighting

With natural light, off camera flash, video light and studio strobes

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You will learn

  • Natural Window Light

    Quality, direction, settings. How to use reflectors and supplement it with video light or flash

  • Off Camera Flash Indoors

    How to mix off camera flash with natural light to get consistent lighting yet naturally looking images

  • Studio Strobes

    Basic and more advanced lighting schemes for timeless magazine style images that clients love. One light magic and easy workflow to get variety without changing modifiers all the time

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Who is Ksenia?

Meet your Educator & Coach

— Photographer, Mentor, Online Course Creator

— Photography Educator and Business Coach

— Internationally Published Portrait and Fashion Photographer with 10+ years of experience

— 6+ years in business as a full time portrait photographer

— Owner of multiple six figures photography studio

— Top ranked Maternity Photography YouTube creator - 30k subscribers and 2.8M views

— First generation immigrant and "American Dream" chaser

— Wife and mom to one very opinionated 5 year old girl