Practical Portraiture

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Presenter: Greg Perry
Level: Beginner-Intermediate
Duration: 10am to 5pm
Date: Sunday, 1 April 2012
Cost: $260
Location: Up on High Studio, Fremantle, Western Australia
Maximum participants: 12

Workshop notes provided.

Are you looking to develop your skills as a portrait photographer? Practical Portraiture will give you with the skills, knowledge and confidence to photograph portraits both indoors and outdoors.

This hands-on 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. Learn the tips of the trade, from communicating with your portrait sitters, to posing groups, lighting for portraiture and camera control for best looking portraits!

Workshop facilitator, Greg Perry, will lead you on a number of portrait shoots, where you will work closely with a workshop models 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!)
• Camera to subject positioning relative to the light source.
• Subject to background relationships.
• 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.

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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