Portrait foundations: Jan 17- Feb 07, Sat 2 - 3:45 PM in person

Portrait Foundations: Mastering the Decisive Moment & Environmental Frame (4 sessions): Jan 17-Feb 07, Saturdays 2:00 PM- 3:45 PM. In-person: Outdoors

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It's time to have fun, experiment! This course will guide you through all that there is to see to unleash your imagination and create the most unique portraits. Made for everyone, using any types of cameras, with or without Manual Mode.

Course will include a review of the kinds of portraiture - from documentary to editorial -, the master portraitists, the history of portraiture, in class analysis, photo shooting, weekly assignments and a plenty of fun group activities that will put the topics learned during the course to test. Classes and assignments are fun, and will also include practice and experimentation with a myriad of lighting effects. Using simple home made setups and equipment that you already have, you'll learn the classic light setup, High Key and Low key, Corrective and dramatic lighting, among other tricks using both natural and artificial lighting. Take this course to enhance your creativity beyond portraiture.

Requirements: Any digital camera including Phone cameras and mirrorless with Automatic mode. Though not necessary, We highly recommend taking the Portrait Beginners guide workshop prior to this course - this course will not include the basics of Portrait composition, shooting angles, and basic lighting. We highly recommend knowing the basics of your camera - This course will not cover camera settings and the basics of shooting.

Notes on film cameras: Please note that while most content of this course is applicable to digital cameras, you are welcome to attend as long as your film camera has an automatic shooting mode. Should the assigned instructor become suddenly unavailable, we’ll allocate a substitute.

Find more dates at our Portraiture page.
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New York, NY 10011
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