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What Makes a Great Portrait, with Scott Kelby

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One Part Technical.
Three Parts Art.

What Makes a Great Portrait

10 lessons with Scott Kelby · The complete portrait recipe

Anyone can take a picture of a person.

Scott shows you how to make a portrait.

Great portraits are one part technical, three parts art. Scott Kelby breaks down the ten elements that separate a snapshot of a person from a portrait people remember — building real connection, lighting that flatters, perfect skin tones, responsible retouching, and the lens and composition choices that make faces look their best. By the end, you'll have a complete recipe for portraits with real depth and real emotion, no matter who steps in front of your camera.

See what's inside the course →

A window-lit portrait with soft, flattering shadows

An environmental portrait that tells the subject's story

A candid moment with a genuine, unposed expression

A clean seamless-paper portrait with tack-sharp eyes

Lessons

Part Technical

Parts Art

What You'll Learn

✓

Turn strangers into relaxed subjects

Scott's rapport-building moves — research, conversation, their favorite music — that unlock genuine expressions

✓

Shape light that flatters

Use shadows to build depth and dimension in every face — and position your subject so the light does the heavy lifting

✓

Nail skin tones and tack-sharp eyes

A gray card workflow that corrects a whole shoot's color in seconds, plus the eye-detection AF settings that never miss

✓

Pick lenses and backgrounds that do the work

Seamless paper, shallow depth of field, and why the $639 lens beats the $3,400 one for most portrait shooters

✓

Compose and crop like a pro

Headroom, intentional crops, flattering camera angles, and getting close enough to fill the frame

...across all 10 lessons, from style guide to final crop.

Why This Course Matters

Anyone can learn to operate a camera. Far fewer learn to photograph a person.

This course closes that gap. Scott hands you the complete playbook — the artistic decisions, the people skills, and the few technical moves that actually matter — so you stop hoping for great portraits and start engineering them. If people are in your frame, this course belongs in your library.

See What's Inside

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Photographer, Author & KelbyOne Founder

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Scott Kelby is a photographer, award-winning author of more than 100 books, and the founder of KelbyOne. He's known for a friendly, no-nonsense teaching style that strips the intimidation out of complex topics — and here he turns it on the art of photographing people.

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