Damien Lovegrove's
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$ 195 / £ 145 / € 166
Create striking portraits with confidence - no luck, no guesswork.
Learn a step-by-step lighting system that gives you total creative control. Using natural light, continuous lights or flash, whether you’re shooting indoors, outdoors, or on location.
Meet your course tutor - Damien Lovegrove
An introduction to Portrait Lighting Mastery
Course Curriculum
Learn the art and craft of portraiture through clear, practical teaching and gain the confidence to use flash and continuous light with purpose, not guesswork.
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Alan Wheetman
Hear from photographers whose work changed with this course…
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Ian Davies
What I found amazing in this course was Damien's willingness to share all his tips, tricks and success secrets. Not just in the course itself, but also in our email exchanges. Thank you Damien!
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Frank de Groene
I really enjoyed this course. It clearly explains lighting in a simple, effective way, with great examples throughout. The videos showing how you shape the light were especially helpful, particularly the sections on Taking Control of Available Light and Back Light, Kick Light, and Two-Point Lighting.
FAQs
Two sample lessons from the 46 video tutorials in this course
About me, your tutor
I’m confident the videos in this course will change the way you shoot and edit portraits, but if you dive in and feel it’s not right for you, email me within 30 days, and I’ll refund you in full. No hassle, no hard feelings.
$ 195 / £ 145 / €166
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"The most effective lessons for me are where Damien breaks down his own work and explains the lighting - both available light and how he mixes it with strobes or continuous lights. His three-point lighting explanations, even using only available light, were eye-opening.
I’ve picked up countless small but crucial details: placing a subject precisely in shadow, using nearby reflective surfaces, and making tiny adjustments that create a huge difference. These are the things only experienced light masters really know."
Jelle De Raedt - Belgium
This is the most comprehensive portrait lighting course, designed to give you full creative control of your lights, whether you’re a complete beginner or a natural-light photographer ready to embrace supplementary lighting. Through 55 lessons, 46 videos, and 11 hours of clear, practical teaching, you’ll learn how to confidently use flash, continuous light, and modifiers to create portraits with mood, shape, and intention.
This Portrait Lighting Mastery course provides a comprehensive foundation for understanding, shaping, and controlling light in portrait photography. Whether you’re nervous about using flash, frustrated with inconsistent results, or reliant on natural light to feel safe, this course will give you the clarity and confidence you've been missing.
There is no doubt that Damien is not only the master of light but also the master of teaching. This lighting course has thoroughly exceeded my expectations.
Damien 's extensive and clear explanations cover everything you need to know, right from the start. His wealth of knowledge, talent and skills become evident as you go through the course. He really knows how to build beautiful portraits from scouting locations, finding and liaising with models, and styling a shoot. All done with creativity, elegance, panache, attention to detail and a sense of humour.
Damien ultimately achieves a sublime style of photography that I’m so in love with! All the tools that I need to master lighting and develop my own style are in this course - Thank you Damien!
The course content is well thought through, structured, entertaining and educational. Damien presents this course, as he does with all his tutorials, in a calm and relaxed manner at a pace that sits comfortably between the novice learner and the seasoned professional. There is something for everyone to learn from Damien's vast wealth of lighting experience. His delivery is engaging and fun and very quickly I was drawn into the learning process.
I am so pleased I signed up for this course. The locations and models alone are breathtaking, but Damien's knowledge and application of lighting is the icing on the cake that makes this course a definitive must have.
Whether you are a complete novice or a photographer with years of experience, I believe that you will find considerable benefit in enrolling on this course. Damien’s enthusiasm is inspiring, and his real-life professional experience and considerable knowledge are valuable assets which enhance the course. If you are serious about improving as a photographer, I would encourage you to take this course.
In this video, filmed on location in Italy exclusively for this lighting course, I show how I mix a continuous hard light with ambient light. I use the barn doors on the light to shape the light output, isolating my model. These shots could easily be taken with a Godox AD200 with a round head or a Godox AD100 in a Godox S2 bracket. All the kit information, together with links, is in the course.
Sigrife (the model in the video) and I edited this video together. She loved the comedy moment and wanted me to keep it in the edit. This was shot in my kitchen because I wanted to work in the most accessible locations. The videos in this course are shot in a wide variety of locations, including city streets, houses, a photography studio, fields and abandoned properties - all available to you!
My approach to teaching is hands-on, generous, and encouraging. You’ll learn, you’ll laugh, and you’ll develop skills that transform your work. Whether you’re refining your technique or redefining your style, I’m here to help you do it brilliantly.
Over the years, I’ve coached photographers like you from around the world, and I love nothing more than helping others grow in confidence and skill. In 2013, I was honoured to receive the ‘Master Craftsman’ qualification from the Guild of Photographers in the UK – a recognition of both technical excellence and creative vision.