pro workshops
I have been teaching professional photographers tricks and tips to improve their business for many years. I have taught on workflow, photoshop techniques, marketing, lighting, posing and much more. Here are a few of my current professional photography classes and workshops. If there is a topic missing that you’d like me to cover, just drop me an email.
Becoming a Linked Photographer: New Media and Social Networking
It is no secret that the Internet has changed the world and the ways that people interact with one another. You can connect with friends or potential clients across the world in a click of a button. This fundamental change in the way we interact has had a profound change on the way photographers market themselves and present their work to the outside world.
This seminar will explain to photographers how this shift in communication has and will affect them, and how they can use this change to their advantage. We will cover a wide variety of tools to help photographers market themselves and make money from the wide variety of new media and social networking tools on the internet. Photographers will leave this seminar equipped with ideas and tools to get ahead of the curve and make connections through the internet. We will also cover practical examples of how other photographers have made these tools work for them.
Topics include best practices for social networking, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Flickr, blogging and much more. This course is available in the 1-2 hour overview format and the full day intensive. My book Linked Photographer: New Media and Social Networking will be on bookshelves and available online March 2010.
Fashion Concepts to Portrait Profits
Most people have a desire to feel famous, important or like a model. As both a fashion and portrait photographer, I frequently use my toolbox of fashion photography skills to produce high-impact portraiture. While I have shot cover and editorials shoots for many international fashion magazines, I also take portraits of the ‘average’ person. I use concepts from fashion photograph experience including styling, lighting, location and poses to make my portraiture more compelling. My clients love this unique approach I take that makes them feel flawless and high-fashion. I take fashion concepts to make portrait profits! I will take you through the techniques I use for this high fashion approach and will even compare how I’ve ‘remade’ my fashion photography for sessions with my clients. This workshop is available in the 1-2 hour overview or the full day workshop with hands-on shooting.
Complete File Management with Adobe Lightroom
Lightroom is an incredibly powerful tool that allows photographer to organize, edit and manage their images. This workshop goes in through the 5 modules of the program, teaching photographers how to incorporate Lightroom into their workflow. We cover the fundamentals of Lightroom including digital asset management, batch processing, presets, localized adjustments and much more. This course is available in the 1-2 hour overview format, full day intensive, and 2 day workshop.
Fashion and Beauty Photography Intensive
This workshop will prepare photographers to create striking fashion and beauty images. We will discuss equipment choice, location selection, posing, and basic technique. The workshop will cover working in a team (makeup artist, hair stylist, wardrobe stylist, model), concept development, model-photographer interaction, and will look at the work of master fashion photographers for inspiration. We will focus on location lighting (reflectors, diffusers, etc) as well as some common studio techniques. Student will be provided time to work with styled models for experience and portfolio building. This course is available in the 1 day or 3 day intensive format.
To learn much more about this intensive workshop, please visit the Fashion Photography Intensive website!
Portrait and Fashion Retouching: Tips and Tricks!
This workshop will take photographer beyond the basic of retouching. While most photographers understand basic blemish removal and teeth whitening, there are many other tricks to improving your portraits and many plug-ins that can help with the process. We discuss skin softening, lightening eyes, selective contrast, vignettes, use of layers and layer masks, and plug-in software like Portraiture and Nik Software. We also cover the concepts of fashion ideals of beauty, and learn how to use Photoshop tools like liquify to achieve our visual goals. The course is available in the 1-2 hour format.
Breaking in to Fashion and Beauty Photography
Breaking in to the fashion photography industry is no easy task, but I have done it myself and have many tips to share. We discuss organizing your first fashion shoots, marketing yourself, getting published, and expanding your client base. I have been published in dozens of fashion magazines internationally, but this was only achieved through a careful approach to the industry and a knowledge of what clients are seeking and expect from photographers. This workshop is available in the 1-2 hour format.
Advanced Studio Lighting Techniques
Many photographers get into a habit of using only one or two lighting techniques for all their clients. Yet locking yourself into lighting restricts creativity and could possibly give a boring consistency to a photographer’s body of work. There are a number of studio techniques and light modifiers that can visually spice up your work. We discuss lighting modifiers such as beauty dishes, snoots and barn doors and how to utilize these in your portraiture. Furthermore, we cover a variety of techniques such as ‘beauty boxes’, backlight, and more to utilize in your every-day portraits. This workshops is available in the 1-2 hour overview format and the full-day seminar with hands-on shoot time.
