Birmingham School of Photography
Weekend  Workshop in Portrait Photography: 
Outdoor, Window, and Studio Lighting

                            Jessica by Leslie Hollingsworth - Window Light 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 Saturday or Sunday sessions, but please have a parent or guardian that is not enrolled in the class attend with them). Since this is an April class, you can also do Spring or Easter themed portraits in the class. 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:

9:00-12:30 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.
12:30-1:30 Lunch Break- If shooting film, have your film processed, printed, and scanned at a one hour processing lab by the instructor if you are shooting film. Digital images will not be printed and they will be digitally viewed at the school.
2:00-4:30 Learn the basics of window lighting and outdoor portraits with late 
afternoon light.
5:00-6:00 Have all your images critiqued by the instructor. We will download all your images so we may  send images to our models, and we will continue our discussion to find out where to get equipment and we will also review other famous portrait photographer's work.

Sunday

12:00-4:00 When setting up a home studio or using artificial lighting on a photoshoot one can get overwhelmed with all the choices that are available to them. We will have an in-depth discussion  on and about studio lighting, studio equipment, props, and how to do different studio lighting setups. We will be setting up different colored backdrops and a variety of lighting setups ( to see how the backgrounds will react), and different models. We will be taking images under all the different setups.
4:00-6:00 Have all your images critiqued by the instructor. We will download all your images to send images to our models, and we will continue our discussion to find out where to get equipment and we will also review other famous portrait photographer's work.

Supplies Required:
1) An adjustable 35mm Single Lens Reflex (SLR) camera, please no point and shoots .You can also use 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) If using a film camera: One roll of 24 or 36 exposure 100 ISO color negative film, such as: Fujipress 100 or Kodak Gold 100 or Digital Memory Card 
3) Please bring a model with you, if possible. We will also provide models.

Prerequisite:
A Introduction to Digital or Film Photography Class

Instructor: Parastoo "Paris" Farzad

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