Description
Everyone loves a good portrait. But in this photographic genre, there’s far more than meets the eye. Portraits can be symbolic, iconic, flattering or revealing. In addition to learning how, we also encourage you to wonder why.
This six-session, challenge-based course enhances your portrait skills through understanding and maximizing natural light, continuous (hot) lights, composition, lens effects, and working with human subjects. We'll delve deep into what it means to be creative in photographic portraiture, including how to overcome equipment limitations in the DIY studio, and develop basic post-production skills to complete the job.
Using live realtime demonstrations, guided feedback to exercises, screen-sharing for slides and illustrations, and weekly assignments, we’ll be shooting a lot and using our time for sharing ideas and getting creative, not just watching a screen.
Who should take this class?
If you love taking pictures of people but want to up your portrait game, this class is for you. You’ve been learning the basics, perhaps you’ve even taken some of our intro classes, and now you’re ready to take the next step towards becoming a more skilled and professional taker of portraits.
What to prepare?
Make sure to have a working laptop or desktop with a webcamera, or an tablet/smartphone, and a good internet connection. We will send you an invite to join the class, along with instructions and a number you can call if you have technical issues. You might want headphones. Charge camera batteries and make space on your camera's memory card.
You’ll want to arrange for time with any willing models, be it friends, relatives or acquaintances, particularly during sessions 2-5 of this class for photo shoot exercises. We’ll discuss this in more detail during our first day of class!
Prerequisites
Students should have a foundational knowledge of manual exposure controls.
Meets 6 consecutive weeks (except holidays)