If you love photographing people but want to know how to
capture a really great portrait, this course is for you!
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“Liane
the tutor was very good, very knowledgeable. I really enjoyed
the course and found the critiques of our own work very helpful.”
Kristen, 2007
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This Portraiture course provides a thorough grounding in all you need
to know about formal and informal portraits both on location and in
the studio. You will discover how to use available lighting for location
portraiture and basic lighting techniques for studio portraiture (more
about lighting can be found on our studio lighting course). You will
learn Portraiture techniques and you will explore composition for
portraiture.
You may also want to take a look at our Studio
Lighting, Medium Format photography
course or Camera
Techniques.
Please see the Portraiture
Course Modules for more details about what you will study on this
course.
Course Overview:
Who is the Portraiture course
aimed at?
Portraiture is aimed at the amateur photographer who wants to further
their creative photography skills, or those wishing to gain professional
photography techniques. The Portraiture Workshop is an advanced lesson
in photography and is ideal for those who have completed any of our
Beginners Photography camera-based
courses and those who have a good understanding of their 35mm SLR
film or digital cameras manual controls. This course complements our
Studio Lighting course and we recommend
attending both to gain a thorough knowledge in lighting for portraits.
If you have never really used your 35mm SLR film or digital camera
on its manual settings before we would advise you to take either Camera
Introduction, Camera
Basics and even our Basic
Photography from our Beginners
Courses, which give students a grounding in basic camera skills.
Progression Routes
The Pinhole Photography workshop prepares students
for academic study and vocational opportunities and our camera-based
Intermediate and Advanced
courses such as Camera
Techniques, Darkroom
Techniques, Studio Lighting,
Medium Format Photography or Large
Format Photography. You may also want to consider our Portraiture
or Landscape Photography courses.
When do we hold Pinhole Photography
classes?
Portraiture is either a weekend or an evening course,
running over one weekend day or two weeknights. Portraiture is Please
see our Photography
Course Schedule for more details.
How do you join our photography
classes?
To join the Portraiture course please check dates, prices and availability
on our Photography
Course Schedule page and then fill out our
Enrolment Form. If there are no dates available for the time you
want to attend please let us know by filling in our Course
Enquiry Form.
If you are a group wishing to book the course please also contact
us through our Course
Enquiry form or call 020 7720 2891 between 9am and 1pm.
We only need two or three students to run this photography workshop,
so we may be able to create an extra course if we have the demand.
Alternatively you may want to consider attending a couple of one to
one sessions, please see our One
to One Photography Tuition page for details.
Where do we hold
our Photography Portfolio classes?
We hold most of our photography courses on our premises in the Clapham
Leisure Centre, details of how to get there can be found on our Zoom
In location page.
Zoom In is a small community based organisation details of which can
be found on our about zoom In Photography
page.
Course
Terms & Conditions
