Hollywood Portraits Remastered

A feature length training video showing you how to recreate the enigmatic charm of a bygone era of photography.

Learn how to capture classic Hollywood portrait photography with Damien Lovegrove

Hollywood Portraits Remastered is a captivating video tutorial where timeless elegance meets cinematic lighting. Set within a magnificent 17th-century English country house, renowned photographer Damien Lovegrove guides you through the art of recreating the allure and mystery of classic Hollywood portraiture. With Chloe-Jasmine Whichello and Jamie Roche as his muses, Damien takes you on a visual journey through grand bedrooms, atmospheric cellars, stately music rooms, and lush grounds, transforming each space into a dramatic stage. Drawing on the expert lighting techniques he honed as a BBC lighting director, Damien masterfully demonstrates how to craft rich, moody portraits steeped in vintage glamour. Whether you're inspired by film noir or golden-era studio shots, Hollywood Portraits Remastered offers a rare blend of artistry, technical insight, and evocative storytelling, designed to elevate your portraiture with a touch of cinematic magic.

Video Size

Full HD 1080p

Run Time

1hr 46m

Chapters

Models

Chloe-Jasmine Whichello & Jamie Roche

$25

Damien’s Kit List

Camera FujiFilm X-Pro 1

Lenses Fujifilm XF 14mm f/2.8 lens Fujifilm XF 18-55mm f/2.8-4 lens Fujifilm XF 35mm f/1.4 lens Fujifilm XF 55-200mm f/3.5-4.8 lens

Lighting Lupolux LED 1000 spotlight Lupolux LED 650 spotlight Arri 300W Junior fresnel Arri 150W Junior fresnel Lowel id Li-ion battery powered light

Accessories California Sunbounce Pro Silver/White Reflector Kit Tiffen 1/4 & 1/8 Black Pro Mist filters Lee Seven5 ND 0.6 soft grad filter Lowel Grand Stand Arri 050MKA lighting stand Manfrotto CombiBoom stand Boom Arm

Props A Zorki 5 Rangefinder camera A deactivated Walther PPK for a 007 look A reproduction 1940s telephone A geniune 1929 typewriter (ebay find) A woodcutter’s axe A black fedora hat A hardback book A grand Piano

Reviews

Martin

Damien demonstrates brilliantly the concepts of great lighting. Techniques that you’ll be able to adapt to your own environment and wow your clients. You need to create imagery that your clients simply can’t reproduce. Great lighting is a way of doing that. Enjoy this great training video.

Gwyn

It’s refreshing to see a training video like this that extensively covers how to use continuous light effectively. We’re also shown how to build a scene with multiple light sources (including those already at the location), and all the essential details of what each light is doing and why. I love how Damien gets creative when it comes to light modifiers for both low and high key images! Damien’s Hollywood Portraits continues the journey in a style of teaching that we have all become accustomed to. Seeing how amazing images are built from start to finish. I learnt a whole bunch of new lighting techniques from this video.

Radmila

I Love-love-love-this video! Excellent work again, Damien & everyone involved! This is not Damien´s first training video I’ve seen, but certainly one of the best! As a wedding and portraiture photographer, I love to photograph glamour. Hollywood Portraits is all you need for making outstanding pictures that not only meets but exceeds the expectations of your clients! If you are a wedding photographer, you´re dealing with several “Uncle Bobs” at each wedding. This video will show you how to build a scene with different light sources and how each light is working and why. Something that uncle Bob just can´t do! This video is the ultimate instruction for making pictures that will let you instantly stand out from the crowd and make your work remarkable, whether you photograph weddings or portraits. Don´t be a “Photoshop-er”, be a photographer, create great images with great lighting, classy and elegant style and your work will hang on the wall of your client’s home forever. Damien shows in this video how to create those images.

FAQs

Reasons to invest

Video training has become one of the most affordable ways to invest in you and your photography business. Learning new techniques and image-making strategies can be a great way to reignite your passion and enthusiasm for photography.

With this video tuturial I hope to inspire viewers to utilise and put into practise the breadth of ideas and techniques shown. In turn I hope your newly acquired knowledge and skills will add long-term value and profitability for you and your business.

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About the presenter and photographer

Damien Lovegrove, That’s me. I am an eminent portrait photographer and Fujifilm brand ambassador. I have been making professional photographs since 1984. In my early years, I was a BBC TV cameraman before training as a lighting director. I left the BBC in 1998 to pursue a career as a commercial photographer and then went on to become a world-renowned wedding photographer. I am now an educator, adventurer, writer, and presenter. I’m inspired by beauty and as I have matured as a photographer I’ve learned to see beauty in just about everyone and everywhere. It’s not what I look at that matters, it is what I see. Being a good portrait photographer requires key traits like having integrity, fun, respectfulness, and a personable character. It wasn’t until I was in my early 30s that I began to gain that all-important confidence needed to hone these skills, and I shot my first portrait in 1996 at the age of 32. Some of the leading photographers I met early in my career had confidence and craft skills in bucket loads, but somehow they lost the desire or focus to really push themselves to greatness, and they fell by the wayside. It takes continual practice and improvement to get the most from photography and there are many obstacles along the way to overcome.

Damien Lovegrove

Hollywood Portraits Remastered is a stunning video tutorial where Damien Lovegrove teaches classic lighting techniques in a historic English country house. Inspired by old Hollywood, he creates cinematic portraits with Chloe-Jasmine Whichello and Jamie Roche, using atmospheric locations and expert lighting skills developed during his BBC lighting director training.