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18 Mar 2024

Natural Light Couples Photography Workshop

Master Engagement Photography

-31 Reviews
  • Develop and enhance a strong overall foundation in couples portraiture
  • Over 7 Hours of HD Video Instruction
  • Complete RAW Exercise Files
  • Total File Size: 6.8GB
$49 Digital Download
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Your Guide To Everything Engagement Photography

Invaluable to Beginners and Seasoned Professionals

Regardless of your photography level, get all the essential education for perfecting natural light couples portraits. Refine your lighting techniques, posing methods, planning knowledge, and post-production skills to build a solid foundation in engagement photography

Couples Posing & Communication

Master posing natural posing for hundreds of poses for any situation! Come along with us on an actual engagement shoot and learn to pose your couple with ease as you get tips on how to quickly and confidently communicate and guide your subjects in a various number of poses.

Foundation Posing Framework

Never run out of poses with the Lin & Jirsa Foundation Posing Framework. Be able to quickly move clients in and out of various poses within just seconds and find that you can shoot 10-20 different looks in just 1-2 minutes!

Lighting Techniques


Natural light and just a simple reflector can go a long way! Create amazing imagery with basic lighting techniques as we show you how to use your reflector as a key light, fill light, gobo, and scrim.

Gear, Camera Settings, & Advice


Discover the ideal equipment and camera settings for shooting great couples portraits. Access our lists of necessary equipment, preferred shooting and metering modes, as well as our “pre-click checklist” – our own step-by-step guide on what you should be considering before even snapping your first photo.

Exceed Client Expectations Even Before The Shoot

Learn how to plan for the shoot, props, and more!

Get all the details on what goes into an engagement shoot. Gain an understanding of everything from the importance of convincing wedding clients to do a pre-wedding portrait session to optimal shoot lengths and planning for the potential “what-could-go-wrongs”. Walk through an actual planning session with a real client and see how we discuss and plan for the client’s vision. Learn to go over:

  • Style and concept for the shoot
  • Potential locations
  • Appropriate wardrobe
  • Make-up considerations.

Post-Producing For A Picture-Perfect Couple Session

Learn how to post-process your engagement sessions from start to finish

With this workshop including over 190 Full Resolution RAW exercise files, see how you can take our RAW files and turn them into breathtaking images. From culling to basic developing to advanced vintage and black and white processing and effects, this 5 hour DVD covers all of the post production from beginning to end

Additional Natural Light Couples Portraiture

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31 Comments

  1. photoExodus

    Wow! I wanted to begin my comment with a BIG WOW! I never, believe me, I never spend money on something that is worth so much like this workshop! I follow slr lounge and I read this site/blog everyday and everyday I learn something more! I bought this workshop and I helped me a lot! Now I am more confident, I believe in me and in my photos and everything is all right! Thank you SLR LOUNGE for doing such a great job!

  2. Christian Boecker

    This was the first tutorial I purchased from SLR Lounge and I was surprised by the quality and the volume of it.
    This tutorial helped me to gain more confidence at the start of a shoot due to the posing system.

  3. Scott Skaggs

    Not a natural light fan, but good info

  4. Scott Skaggs

    nice info

  5. Elmer Arevalo

    Excellent material, I will like to know where is this park at? What the name of it?

  6. David Toldo

    This one has brought me to a totally new level! They show all the basic poses! Open-up, V-up, closed, and a bunch of different variations. You should have this one!

  7. Deborah Parrish

    This workshop has helped me with all of my photographs. I prefer the natural light look and my clients do, too. The posing techniques that Pye presents are very easy to remember and communicate. This is a mainstay of my video library.

  8. Aravind Arivalagan

    Lightroom is great for natural looking potraits

  9. Artur Zielinski

    I finally got around to watching your video tutorial and I can honestly say it is the very BEST explanation of Couple Photography I have ever seen .

  10. Wendell Fernandes

    All is good. But perhaps its missing the realism from it.

  11. Jose Lopez Moreno

    Amazing stuff! I can’t wait to learn all the program has.

  12. Brandon Dewey

    Great set of videos! It explains how to shoot in different natural light situations. It also go into great detail on have to pose a couple and how to build your own poses from the foundation poses. I would highly recommend this workshop!!!

  13. Christine Eisele

    I have been looking for a workshop like this for quite awhile now and am so happy to have found this! Every video is very educational and is easy to follow along with. I have never been more confident about my photography until now. These tutorials explain every thing step-by-step and offer great insights. Any photographer out there looking for a great way to grow in their photography career should really consider purchasing this product. It’s awesome.

  14. Greg Faulkner

    Really helped me a lot

  15. James Matthews

    This DVD set is amazing. I had a couple of family shoots coming up and I had never really worked with posing a person before. The content that Pye covers nailed every question I ever had and more.

    Of course it’s not just about posing. Seeing how they plan the session, deal with the client, choose locations and post-process the images is such a great help to increase your knowledge.

    You won’t be disappointing by purchasing this course, especially if you are new to shooting people and portraits. The fact that every review has rated it 5 stars says everything you need to know.

  16. MARTIN MIANO

    i would advice all my photography buddies to grab on of this truly amaizing

  17. Shezaad Ally

    I can’t seem to make the purchase. Tried everything. Please could I have some assistance.
    Thanks.

    1. Hanssie

      Hi! Please email contact@slrlounge.com so we can help with your specific issue. Things seem to be working fine on our end. Thank you :)

  18. JAE SII

    Very educational and easy to watch I’m definitely implementing these poses for my work. I unusually do a lot of couples photography but always kind of winged it. Now I can get organized and execute great consistent work Thanks a lot

  19. Hennie

    Just the kind of training I was looking for.
    Fantastic teaching by Pype.

  20. Patrick Falls

    This DVD is awesome! Both the video and sound quality are high quality. For me, the pace that the information was presented was perfect. The order that the information was presented made absolute sense, and the price, Ha! the price is awesome for the amount of information that is being presented. I have watched some amazing training videos and this is among the top of the list. I encourage anyone, no matter what your experience level, to view this instruction video.

  21. Adelina Popescu

    Wow! I wanted to begin my comment with a BIG WOW! I never, believe me, I never spend money on something that is worth so much like this workshop! I follow slr lounge and I read this site/blog everyday and everyday I learn something more! I bought this workshop and I helped me a lot! Now I am more confident, I believe in me and in my photos and everything is all right! Thank you SLR LOUNGE for doing such a great job!

  22. Ben Perrin

    This has to be the most worthwhile purchase I have made in regards to my photography. Pye holds nothing back in these training tutorials. I learned so much about banter with clients and so much more about posing couples. I now make sure that creating a mood board is part of my workflow. I believe that this resource has taken my photography to another level and I’d like to encourage any photography that is serious about engagement and wedding photography to purchase this product ASAP. Probably the only downside was that I had to attempt to download certain files multiple times due to the large file size. I was very impressed that the workshop included everything from pre-production to the shoot to post-production. The great thing is that I can just re-watch the appropriate sections before a photoshoot to make sure that I don’t run out of ideas whilst I am there. I would rate this 10 out of 10.

    Cheers,
    Ben

  23. Nice to learn gd tecnics of raw light

    gd shots with grt composings

  24. krouse (via Amazon)

    I started off as a hobbyist, but then I quickly leaned towards becoming a semi pro/ professional photographer. I had no problem capturing objects or of interest, but for some reason when posing people it did not look right. After purchasing the Lightroom 4 Complete Workshop | A-Z Guide DVD, Presets, and Workflow DVD I was very pleased with my with the results after seeing how understanding of lightroom and style of editing drastically change , I decided to give the Natural Light Couples Photography Workshop a try and once again to my amazement it paid off. I’m no longer afraid or panicking when having to do couple photos, even my individual portraits have gotten better due to the advice given for simple but effective poses for women and men. These guys at the SLR Lounge have a way of explaining things perfectly without making it complicated. I recommend this workshop to anyone having trouble with portraits or for someone just looking for that perfect starting point or approach towards capturing great portraits of couples or individuals.

  25. Chandler Chow (via Amazon)

    Pye is the best instructor of all time! You know how in school, you seemed to always like the subjects with great teachers? Well, Pye is that teacher! Really keeps you entertained throughout the entire DVD

    I learned a bunch of great things. For example, I’ve always heard about using reflectors but never really understood how to use them. Small things like the catchlight in the subjects eyes really make a huge difference and are really the difference between professionals and amateurs. This is just one small example of hundreds of tidbits I picked up. Well worth the price!

  26. James Liu (via Amazon)

    This Workshop is great…it has literally changed the way I look at couples portrait photography. I have been using SLRlounge products as a guide for a while now and have been able to (at least a certain degree) mimic their top quality photography. I picked up this workshop primarily because some of my couples photos looked awkward because my couples were posed “uncomfortably”. I learned the thought process behind different poses and the whole process of getting the couples to pose correctly is simplified by this workshop. It is nice to know that with a simple reflector and quality posing instructions, you can create some amazing natural light couples photography. A must for any engagement/wedding photography. Another home run from SLRlounge!

  27. Barbara A. Luna "deal finder" (via Amazon)

    I purchase this in May 2013 one week before an engagement shoot and one month before their wedding. My husband and I watched over three days, took notes and put it in action right away. We somewhat practiced it before our engagement shoot. I watched key videos a second time just to get things “down”.
    Key things I learned:
    1) Have the client make a mood board. Their idea is to use the images on their site to give clients ideas of what they like. I had the client look at pintrest because at this point I don’t have enough in a portfolio, but the idea worked wonderfully. She made a “mood board” i wrote them down and got all but one of those shots. They were very happy with that.
    2) Teaching the client posing techniques at the beginning. This helped them learn right from the beginning things that were going to make them look better. They did these things on their own after a bit of practice. And at their wedding the bride told the bridesmaids what to do. And they looked ot for each other with hair straightening and clothing.It made ME look better too. They really felt I had it together and knew what I was doing. I just learned a few days before!!!!
    3)Posing; Fantastic posing techniques! Unique and easy to implement.
    I just loved this video series. It is a bargain when you compare it to a workshop that you could attend. So much more info in this and you can watch at your own pace and re-watch and practice.
    This video series will give you confidence and you will definetly be less nervous because of having really good tools in your toolbox!!
    This was my first purchase from SLR but not my last.
    Thank you!!!!
    What I would like to see is a series on LIGHTING!!! Basic lighting with flash and beyond.

  28. Soulmates Photography (via Amazon)

    As a professional photographer with over 30 years experience, knowledge is something that should be never ending. With this disc. The Natural Light Couple Photography Workshop can only add to your knowledge of shooting a beautiful engagement session, and for those who already know this info it can only help to remind you of those small details we may tend to forget. I highly recommend these lessons and add them to your collection.

  29. Travis Volkman (via Amazon)

    I had previously purchased SLR Lounge’s Lightroom 4 Preset System and was extremely impressed by the product. So I had high expectations going into the purchase of the Natural Light Couple’s Photography Workshop. I enjoy taking pictures at the hobby level but have always been working on improving my skills as I receive rave reviews from family and friends when I post pictures online. I thought this purchase would give me an inside look into how the folks at SLR Lounge conduct their outdoor portrait sessions. One of the things that has impressed me most by this purchase is that the SLR folks do not hold anything back when it comes to giving their hints and tricks on everything about the photo shoot. Many businesses would consider this giving away their trade secrets but the SLR folks are not concerned with that. From start-to-finish they give you all the information necessary to complete an excellent engagement photo shoot. Topics covered include how to plan the shoot, equipment to use, extensive information on posing tips and tricks, and extensive post processing using Adobe Lightroom. Having the Lightroom Preset System is not necessary to produce the quality images that are shown in the videos but having the system would decrease post production time by A LOT!

    I would highly recommend this product, as well as the Lightroom Preset System from SLR Lounge. I would have had no problem paying 2-3 times the price for these products and still felt I got my money’s worth.

  30. Ermenegildo Conte (via Amazon)

    I’m very happy with my purchase. Theses guys know what they are talking about, they know the photography business very well. They are also very generous and share many great info on they’re website SLRLounge. So when I saw that they came out with this DVD, I said to myself that it would be a good Sunday night video to share with my wife, we both love photography. I’m a professional photographer and I was surprise how much ideas, I got from the DVD. I’ve learn a lot more then I was expecting. Easy posing workflow approach with couples. Real Engagement Session footage plus a second DVD with Lightroom edit class. If your looking for a modern approach for your engagement photo session. This is it!

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