Equine Black Background Portraits

The ultimate way to learn or improve your black background portraits

Beginners to intermediate course that will teach you how to easily arrange your setup on location, what camera settings work the best, and how to edit your images properly to get the best results with black background equine portraits.
This course will teach you not only black backgrounds but will make a foundation for further development: white backgrounds, painterly backgrounds and professional beauty editing. It is NOT a bunch of tricks that you can find on Youtube. This course EXPLAINS stuff!

On this course you will learn:

  • Easiest setup on location and its alternatives

  • Best camera settings

  • Posing the horse and composing your image

  • Lightroom-only editing for total beginners

  • Lightroom+Photoshop combined editing

  • Photoshop edit - from different background

  • Removing halters and basics of horse beauty edits

  • Challenges: black on black and full body shot

  • Common mistakes and how to address them

  • Level: Beginners to intermediate

    You should know basic Lightroom and Photoshop workspace, no further experience needed. You may be editing JPGs or RAWs

  • Requirements:

    You will need desktop or laptop computer with installed Lightroom Classic and Photoshop. Not suitable for mobile devices.

  • One Year Access:

    You will have access to the course for 365 days to watch it as many times as you wish. All course downloads and bonus materials will be yours forever.

You will be surprised, how much you can learn from this course!

Each course is independent so you may take only one of your choice. If you are unsure whether the course is suitable for your Photoshop expertise, or if you'd like to know the best order to take my courses, click here for more information.

With this course, You will also get:

  • Set of Images

    A set of images (JPGs and RAWs) for each editing chapter, to make your learning easy. Download them, and use for training following the video instructions

  • Cheat Sheet

    A downloadable "cheat sheet" that you can keep forever and use in your further work

Aga Karmol

Your instructor:

International multi-award-winning fine art photographer. Aga studied art and earned a Master of Fine Arts Degree (MFA) from the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk. Worked as a graphic designer and photo editor since 1993. Collaborated with the biggest Polish national equestrian magazine (Kon Polski) and contributed photos and articles to The Forbes and National Geographic Traveler. In 2005, Aga relocated to London and became a correspondent for the magazine. In 2014, she moved to Somerset and shifted her focus to fine art photography. Aga's equine portraits blur the boundaries between photography and painting, inspired by the works of old masters, but utilizing a contemporary medium: a digital camera along with editing software.

Aga Karmol

What my students say:

Judy Riggs

5 star rating

“I really appreciate how Aga uses diagrams and on-screen text to help highlight the important points of the lesson. I also have her difficult selections course and this black backgrounds course is an excellent foundation to lead into those lesso...”

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“I really appreciate how Aga uses diagrams and on-screen text to help highlight the important points of the lesson. I also have her difficult selections course and this black backgrounds course is an excellent foundation to lead into those lessons. It has helped me understand how to set up my images for success in camera, and I can then use the difficult selections to help me when it’s needed for more complicated backgrounds. Thank you Aga once again for great content! ”

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Charlotte Radic

5 star rating

“Excellent course! Very easy to understand and follow. I recommend everyone take this course, Aga has many useful tips!”

“Excellent course! Very easy to understand and follow. I recommend everyone take this course, Aga has many useful tips!”

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Wendy Searle

5 star rating

“Absolutely excellent course, designed for beginners and explained clearly for this level.”

“Absolutely excellent course, designed for beginners and explained clearly for this level.”

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