Mobile Portrait Photography for Instagram

Meet Erea Azurmendi and hear about her relationship with photography, from her first contact at twelve years old to a full-fledged career as a freelance photographer. See some of her biggest influences in portrait photography and take some time to find your own.

Discover how to overcome a creative block and come up with original ideas to beat the blank page. Analyze portrait photography as an art form and study the basic concepts and its distinctive characteristics. Then, learn about exposition, color theory, and composition.

Decide what you want to convey with your project and create a mood board that captures your ideas, including inspiration for details like the wardrobe, photography style, and poses for your model. Prepare for your shoot by covering the materials you'll be using and learn how to adjust the settings on your phone to ensure you get quality images.

Now you're ready to start shooting. Play with different types of light and colors to capture a series of creative images: diffused light with soft shadows and blurred edges, direct light with harsh contrasts, and artistic effects using lens modifiers such as glass and colored acrylic sheets.

To finish the course, Erea helps you pick out the three best photographs for your project and teaches you how to edit them to get professional results. She also shows you some tricks for sharing content on Instagram and how to adapt it for Instagram Stories and Reels.