The Academy with John Gress

100 Level

In this month's member exclusive video, I creat multiple looks with our model Eric, all with only a 100cm Deep Octabox

Member Exclusive: working with one light

08/16/2022

8 common portrait lighting mistakes

8 common portrait lighting mistakes that every new photographer makes

05/18/2022

In today's video I breakdown a TTL HHS outdoor hard light portrait and a soft light Rembrandt setup in the studio.

Lighting Handbook Tutorial – Breaking down a hard light outdoor portrait & a soft light studio setup

05/14/2022

How long does a studio need to be for full length portraits?

03/07/2022

Whether you're just experimenting or needed to recreate a specific look for a client, deciphering someone else's lighting is a key skill every photographer needs to know. In this video I will take you through my process for recognizing the modifiers, to evaluating the positioning and determining the ratios.

How to recreate the lighting from inspiration images in three easy steps

11/18/2021

Portrait lighting doesn't have to be hard. In fact you can get a lot of variety with one light so long as you know where to position it. In this video, I I show you three killer one light setups that will help you make your studio portraits pop!

3 key positions for your main light

11/11/2021

Step-by-step Black & White retouching using Lightroom Classic, Photoshop, and Neural Filters for Skin Smoothing. I also mask out the backgrounds and replace them.

MEMBER EXCLUSIVE: Lightroom and Photoshop B&W Tutorial

11/06/2021

Watch in near real time as I go over three for using flash on location outdoors.

Member Exclusive Tutorial: Augmenting natural light with flash

08/10/2021

Slowing down and being deliberate can be the key to improving your work and precision framing can reduce time wasted in post.

Why I did a 180 when it comes to using a tripod for studio portrait photography

08/06/2021