Day 1: Now adjusted for beginners or more advanced

Mastering your exposure and focus

Lets look at your cameras and adjust your settings to get the most out of your camera. Are you metering correctly? Should you shoot JPEG or RAW? How are you focusing? All the questions answered.

Learn about the importance of Depth of Field, my personal trademark in Portraiture.

Follow me as we work in small groups with my models, both children and teens. Learn how to find beautiful natural light in any location and meter perfectly every time.

Lets edit those photos with my personal processing technique (instructions now provided, so no writing down) and my personal proofing actions. Whether or not you can snap a fab image, you will fall short if you don’t have a distinct and fabulous style of editing.

After working so hard we'll have an awesome lunch before an afternoon shoot with new models.

LEFT:

An underexposed image on the left

Learn about the importance of Perfect Exposure by learning to watch your histogram

RIGHT:

An over exposed image and the corresponding detail in the Histogram

Day 2:

Learn my workflow technique and major time savers

A similar day but now we expect to see some results! Focus on posing and composition of our model, ideal clothes, finding texture and interesting shapes, looking for natural frames. Learn what makes a snapshot a portrait.

Learn to work with more challenging light such as backlight, direct sun and deep shade.

Learn more advanced photoshop techniques and styles.

Add on Session:

Studio and Advanced Photoshop

More for the photographer that wants to or has their own studio and needs to perfect their lighting skills, learn how to get perfect white balance and work with various lighting. Learn how to model your light to create dramatic portraits.

Advanced photoshop includes colour correction, textures, borders, working in Raw.

Beginners Course
Suits  beginners with a basic knowledge of camera functions and ideally a very basic knowledge of photoshop.  Workstations with photoshop provided and lens available to borrow if you do arrive with “kit” lens (those provided with camera) (A "catch up" private available before the session if you are unsure how to use your camera or have never worked with photoshop -)

Intermediate course
Intermediate hobbyists and those wanting to enter the field of professional photography. Workstation provided if you do not have a laptop.

On application please state the equipment you have, what level you are and what you hope to achieve from the workshop.

Cost:
R2000 for the weekend or for the Saturday and two Wed evenings

50% deposit required on acceptance
Small informal and fun atmosphere

Join my portraiture club where you can come and photograph with me on location.