ADVANCEDPORTRAITUREWORKSHOP
TWO DAYS.FOUR PHOTOGRAPHERS.ONE STUDIO.
This is a hands-on, portfolio-building experience limited to 4 individuals. Over two full days you’ll learn lighting, posing, retouching, and compositing techniques that will transform the way you approach your headshot sessions.
All Photoshop demonstrations are screen-recorded and shared with participants. A post-workshop Zoom review is included within two weeks to answer any questions that come up after you’ve had time to put it all into practice.
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Eight modules covering everything from natural light to team-led creative shoots
Embracing Natural Light
Make natural light your friend whether you’re on-location or working in your personal studio space.
Indirect Lighting
Indirect lighting techniques to create a softer look and add visual diversity to your portfolio.
One Light Portraits
Efficient lighting techniques for getting the job done with minimal gear.
Clean Up Artist
Easy editing solutions for fixing the inevitable problems that come from using mixed light and pulling back from a headshot into a wider portrait.
Zooming Out
Transitioning from a headshot to full body portrait and everything in-between.
Position Your Clients for Success
Directing your clients to accentuate body type, create visual interest, add variety to your portfolio, and avoid retouching pitfalls.
Quick Composites & Group Portraits
Lighting techniques and Photoshop shortcuts for replacing headshot backgrounds and compositing teams of people together for group portraits.
Applied Learning & Team Management
Each participant will recreate an iconic image using their newly acquired skills while the other participants will act as their crew. As team leader, you’ll have 90 minutes to build your set, dial in your lighting, and work with your subject to create something special.
THE SCHEDULE
Day 1
10:00am – 12:00pm
Introduction
The first two hours are designed to get everyone on the same page. We’ll get to know one another and set the foundation the rest of the workshop will build upon.
12:00pm – 1:00pm
Lunch
Within walking distance there’s everything from Shake Shack to Sweetgreen. There’s even a Raising Cane’s if that’s more your speed.
1:00pm – 7:00pm
Skills-Based Learning
Hands-on learning of the core skills required to move beyond the headshot into portraiture: ambient light as a source, mixed lighting, portrait lighting techniques, full-length portraits on solid backgrounds, small group portrait lighting, and compositing full-length and three-quarter shots into group portraits.
7:00pm – 10:00pm
Social Time
We’ll order pizza and hang at the studio. We’ll even invite some local legends… I mean friends.
Day 2
9:00am – 10:00am
Shoot Planning
We will recreate iconic images of your choice. Each photographer runs the show from concept to execution. The other photographers become your assistants and subjects. You come up with the idea and the team helps you execute.
10:00am – 11:30am
Shoot 1
11:30am – 1:00pm
Shoot 2
1:00pm – 2:00pm
Lunch
2:00pm – 3:30pm
Shoot 3
3:30pm – 5:00pm
Shoot 4
5:00pm – 6:00pm
Recap & Q&A
FULTON MARKET.
CHICAGO.
The workshop takes place at our studio at 212 N Sangamon Street, Studio 4B, in Chicago’s Fulton Market district. Meals and breaks are built into each day. Please be prepared to be photographed and to photograph others.
A homework assignment will be reviewed at the post-workshop Zoom within two weeks—giving you time to digest the cornucopia of information before we reconvene.
LOGISTICS
Everything you need to know before you arrive
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