Birmingham School of Photography
One Day Workshop 
on 
Using Studio Lighting
 for Portrait Photography






This workshop is designed to help the portrait photographer fine tune their skills. We will be doing studio lighting techniques in this course. You may bring your own models of all ages and sizes (Child models of  all ages can attend the the session, but please have a parent attend with them). With the use of your 35mm SLR camera and color negative film or Digital Cameras and Memory Cards, we hope that you will be able to capture unique images of your family, friends, or our models that you will be proud of for years to come.            

The timeline for this workshop will be as follows:

10:00-1:00 Meet at the school and  discuss what equipment is needed for good portrait photography and where to find the equipment. Take photographs with your Manual Digital Camera, or 35mm SLR Camera using color negative film of different models. This will include continuous and strobe portrait lighting techniques and how to use reflectors and diffusers in the studio. This will also cover how to compose your subjects, what backgrounds to avoid, what backgrounds work, and  how to select the best light for your subject. You will also learn how to use  incident/flash light meters to get perfectly exposed images.
1:00-2:00 Lunch Break- Have your film processed, printed, and scanned at a one hour processing lab with the instructor if you are shooting film, Digital will be viewed at the school
2:00-4:00 Continue with different lighting techniques.
4:00-6:00 Have all images critiqued by instructor - Download all your images.

Supplies Required:
1) An adjustable 35mm Single Lens Reflex (SLR) camera, please no point and shoots or a Manual Digital Camera (this does not have to be a SLR, but the camera must have a Manual setting on it to set the f-stop and shutter speed)
2) One roll of 24 or 36 exposure 100ISO color negative film- such as: Fujipress 100 or Kodak Gold 100 or Digital Memory Card 

Prerequisite:
Basic 35mm Knowledge helpful, but not necessary

Instructor: Parastoo "Paris" Farzad

                    Megan- By Sidney Shah (Student)-Studio                Josh-By Amanda Long (Student)- Studio