The only online course
dedicated fully to travel portraiture
With The Art of Travel Portraiture, Matt Brandon and Piet Van den Eynde have created the ultimate guide to capturing striking travel portraits. From beginner tips to advanced techniques, this comprehensive guide covers every aspect of travel portraiture, from planning your shoot to composing, lighting and editing stunning travel portraits.
Start making better travel portraits today
Do you recognize this feeling? You encounter so many interesting scenes, photogenic faces, and beautiful moments while you're traveling but back home, your photos seem to not really reflect your memories. The lighting is too contrasty, your composition could be better and the story that unfolded in front of you, seems to be missing in the picture.
With The Art of Travel Portraiture, you will learn all the professional techniques on how to capture stunning portraits of people you meet on your travels. This comprehensive guide covers everything from which gear to use, over mastering the art of lighting and composition all the way to how to edit and color grade your travel images.
From start to finish, this tutorial is taught by two travel photographers, Matt Brandon and Piet Van den Eynde, who will walk you through every step of the process. So whether you're a beginner or a seasoned pro, The Art of Travel Portraiture is the perfect way to improve your travel portraiture skills.
This is what you'll learn in this almost 7 hour tutorial:
- Introduction (1:12)
- Gear Talk Cameras & Lenses (15:35)
- Gear Talk Lighting Gear (35:49)
- Gear Talk Other Useful Stuff (37:11)
- How to Approach People (6:35)
- Composition Tips (46:10)
- Frame within a Frame (3:10)
- Diagonal Lines (3:07)
- Wake Up Early (12:41)
- Sit & Wait Challenge (11:43)
- Expose for the Highlights (4:37)
- The Photo Essay (23:37)
- Two Lights for the Price of One (11:06)
- Building a Portrait (8:22)
- Photographing Iconic Images (3:40)
- Solo Shoot (2:53)
- FAQ (24:56)
- Composition Tips: The Edit (11:57)
- Wake Up Early: The Edit (19:35)
- Sit & Wait Challenge: The Edit (18:57)
- The Photo Essay: The Edit (7:33)
- Two Lights for the Price of One: The Edit (22:24)
- Building a Portrait: The Edit (24:59)
- Photographing Iconic Images: The Edit (17:51)
- Solo Shoot: The Edit (4:09)
- Adding Texture to a Portrait Shoot (14:29)
You will learn how to compose and light a picture and how to apply their techniques to your own photographs.
David L.
'Take photographs to the level I wish to achieve'
I love traveling and taking photos but oftentimes I come to the end of my imagination on how else to understand my subject for composition or even camera controls. Through this course, Matt and Piet with their experience and skill, brought me to a wider perspective on how to take photographs in terms of time, location and shots. They have practical and technical tips on live location from approaching the subject, taking the shot, processing the photograph and even understanding gears! They even show how the use of light can greatly make your photographs unique. At the end of the course, I feel more confident to take photogpraphs to the level I wish to achieve. I would recommend to any photographer (no matter what level) who wants to build a portrait, compose a subject well, show context and convey a story through a photograph to consider the Art of Travel Portraiture. I enjoyed the course immensely!
– Hannah P.
'Worth its weight in gold'
I felt like I was traveling the streets of India while Matt and Piet told me their personal insights based on decades of experience. So many online photography tutorials leave you stuck in a well-lit room with a smart guy who talks all about photography, but doesn't bring you to the worksite to watch the action. Not so with this tutorial. It was worth its weight in gold to not only listen to the instructors formal teaching portions, but also watch them capture the beauty and poetry of life in motion while describing what they were doing. My photos are already looking more vibrant and alive with story after watching Matt and Piet in action, then applying their principles related to composition and lighting. This tutorial is perfect for anyone who wants to move beyond basics into profound storytelling with his or her camera.
– Sarah J.
'Learn how to compose and light a picture'
I’ve attended 3 workshops with Matt and Piet over recent years (would have been more were it not for covid) and can not recommend them highly enough. Working with Matt and Piet not only guarantees you will come away with trophy shots for your portfolio but more importantly you will learn how to compose and light a picture and how to apply their techniques to your own photographs. Skills that will remain with you long after the workshop is over. Travelling with Matt and Piet is always an adventure and a tremendous amount of work clearly goes into their planning of each workshop to ensure access to remarkable locations and subjects it would be hard to find on your own.
– David L.
About Matt
Matt Brandon (www.thedigitaltrekker.com) is a US-based humanitarian and travel photographer, who collaborates with NGOs to tell their stories and to train their field staff to do the same. Well known as a photographer and international workshop instructor, Matt’s images have been used by clients such as National Geographic Traveller, Asian Geographic, the BBC, Honda Motor Corporation, and Bombardier Transport Corporation, KLM Airlines and others. His photographic pursuits have taken him to the countries of Egypt, Tibet, India, Indonesia, Thailand, Maldives, Philippines, Malaysia to name a few.
About Piet
Piet Van den Eynde (pronounced “Pete”) is a Belgian freelance photographer specializing in travel portraiture. As an Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Certified Expert, he has written numerous books on Adobe Lightroom. He also wrote a comprehensive ebook on using flash on location: 'Light It Up! Techniques for Dramatic Off-Camera Flash' with loads of travel images. When he's not traveling or writing, he's recording video courses. He contributes articles to photography magazines worldwide.
In 2009, Piet threw his camera, a flash and an umbrella in his bicycle panniers and cycled 5000 miles through Asia. This adventure sparked his love for flash-lit travel portraits. Piet’s also a Fujifilm X-Ambassador.
So many online photography tutorials leave you stuck in a well-lit room with a smart guy who talks all about photography, but doesn't bring you to the worksite to watch the action.
Not so with this tutorial.
Sarah J.
Order now and you'll receive these 4 bonuses:
Bonus 1: 4 extra tutorials (a US$ 49.95 value)
As a first bonus, you'll receive 2 extra, advanced live shoot tutorials that Matt and Piet filmed in October 2022 and two extra, advanced processing tutorials. The first is about getting the most from any scene and the second is an advanced tutorial on how to light multiple people with only one light
Bonus 2: 20 Presets & Creative Profiles (a US$ 24.95 value)
As a second bonus, you'll receive a pack with 10 presets and 10 Creative Profiles that were specifically created for this course and that include variations of the processing that Piet applies to all of his images. The strength of the effect can easily be tweaked using Lightroom's sliders.
Bonus 3: 25 High-Res Textures (a US$ 24.95 value)
As a third bonus, you'll receive a pack with 25 high-resolution textures and backgrounds, photographed with the 100 megapixel Fujifilm GFX100 and GFX100S. In the main tutorial, we show you how you can use these backgrounds on images that you photographed against a grey backdrop. It's a very simple procedure!
Bonus 4: Lightroom and Photoshop Tutorials (a US$ 149 value)
As a fourth and final bonus, we'll match your investment in 'The Art of Travel Portraiture' by adding two extra courses to your account: a Lightroom Classic course and a course 'Lightroom for Photoshop users', that teaches you only those Photoshop techniques that you really need as a Lightroom user. These courses have a combined value of US$ 149, but you get them for free if you enroll in 'The Art of Trafel Portraiture' today!
Get The Art of Travel Portraiture and the 4 extra bonuses today!
At the end of the course, I feel more confident to take photogpraphs to the level I wish to achieve.
I would recommend to any photographer (no matter what level) who wants to build a portrait, compose a subject well, show context and convey a story through a photograph to consider The Art of Travel Portraiture.
Hannah P.
FAQ
Q: How long can I access the course?
You have lifetime streaming access to this course via this platform 'The Pixel Academy'. If ever we would decide to end The Pixel Academy, you will be given the option to download the course videos so you can continue to watch them.
Q: I work with Photoshop, not with Lightroom. Is this course still a good fit for me?
Of course: under the hood, Lightroom and Adobe Camera Raw are identical. You can process an image exactly the same in Camera Raw as in Lightroom, it's only the interface that is a little different.
Q: Will these techniques work in other countries as well?
We filmed the course on location in Kolkata, India but the techniques we use in this course are universal. We personally apply them to our travel photographs anywhere in the world, be it Ethiopia, Mongolia, Papua New Guinea or anywhere else!
Q: Is there a money-back guarantee?
A: We think this is the best travel portraiture course out there and we stand by our product. Therefore, if the course does not live up to your expectations, please inform us why it did not meet your expectations within 15 days of your purchase and we will issue a refund.