Bush Portraits: Natural Light & Strobes

Delve into the art of creating portraits in natural bush settings!

Level: Intermediate*
Date: Saturday 24 May 2025
Duration: 3pm – 5pm
Price: $210
Instructor: Seng Mah
Maximum participants: 6
Location: Piney Lakes Reserve Bushland, Murdoch.

* You’ll need to be comfortable shooting in Manual Exposure for this workshop.

Learn how to photograph great people portraits in natural bush land environments. This is a very hands-on, “learn by doing” workshop that will give you the practical skills in using natural light and off-camera strobe lighting to enhance your portrait photography in outdoor settings.

A key part of this workshop is your learning how to find and use bush locations, paying particular attention to working with foreground and background, and to use environmental elements in your staging, posing and framing of these portraits.

Great portraits is also about great lighting! You will learn how to work with back light and diffused lighting in these settings, and how using a simple off-camera strobe light through a diffuser (softbox) can enhance your portrait captures.

You’ll be working with a husband-and-wife modeling team at this workshop and come away great images along with the knowledge to pose, position and photograph outdoor portraits.

Whether you’re just starting out in portraiture or are a more experienced photographer, you’ll pick up great tips and techniques for creating portraits using natural light!

It’s going to be a workshop that’s full of fun and, if you’re not a portrait photographer yet, it’ll make you fall in love with portraiture!

WHAT YOU WILL NEED

Your interchangeable lens camera (DSLR or Mirrorless).
Lens in the 70-200mm focal length range (or equivalent if you are using an APS-C sensor or Micro Four Thirds camera).
Memory card and fully charged camera battery.

Note: Off-camera flash, triggers and stands are supplied as part of this workshop. No need to bring your own.

Don’t miss this great opportunity to learn and capture great bush portraits!