Practical Portraiture

Presenter: Greg Perry
Level: Beginner-Intermediate
Duration: 6 hours, 11am-6pm
Date: Sunday 2 May
Cost: $200 ($180 earlybird special - Book before 30 March)
Maximum participants: 10 (minimum required: 7)

Workshop notes provided.

Practical Portraiture is a comprehensive, hands-on workshop that will equip you with the skills, knowledge and confidence to photograph portraits both indoors and outdoors.

This workshop is designed to develop your ability to work with your portrait subjects and to use both natural and flash lighting to create beautiful portraits.

Workshop facilitator, Greg Perry, will lead you on a number of portrait shoots, where you will work closely with a model to learn about:

• Approaches for relaxing and engaging people at the photo shoot.
• Useful dress guidelines for clothing, make-up and accessories.
• Understanding and managing people's concerns about their own appearances.
• Helpful techniques for corrective posing and lighting (or how to get your subjects looking natural and at their best!)
• Tips for posing couples, families and other small groups (eg. that bridal party at the wedding).
• Camera to subject positioning relative to the light source.
• Subject to background relationships.
• Setting a custom white balance to get the right colour cast in your portraits.
• Exposure metering for portraiture - external vs. internal light meters.
• Controlling shadows using fill-flash, reflectors and scrims.
• Managing difficult back-lighting issues.
• Using flash exposure compensation (FEC) for balancing natural light.
• Working with high-sync flash in bright ambient-light conditions.
• Working with slow-sync flash in low ambient-light conditions.

Practical Portraiture is a must for anyone who loves taking photographs of people, and for those who wish to pursue portrait photography in a more serious manner!

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*portraits shown here are by Greg Perry