Birmingham School of Photography
One Day Workshop in Portrait Photography: Outdoor, Windowlight, and Studio

                              Elisabeth by Paris Farzad (Instructor)- Outdoor Portrait

This workshop is designed to help the portrait photographer fine tune their skills. We will be doing outdoor, window light, and 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 outdoor morning session, but please have a parent attend with them. For the safety of the children models, that are under the age of 7, we do not want them to attend the afternoon studio portrait session of this workshop). 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.                                 

Jessica - Photograph by Maria Zaeva (student)

The timeline for this workshop will be as follows:

10:00-1:00 Meet at the school  and then go on location and take photographs with your Manual Digital Camera, or 35mm SLR Camera using color negative film. This will include outdoor portrait lighting techniques using reflectors and diffusers. 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 the gray card or incident 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 Learn the basics of studio lighting and model arrangement
4:00-6:00 Have all images critiqued by instructor - Download all your images, and find out where to get equipment and also review other photographer's work


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