Portrait Photography Course

■ An understanding of different light sources (ambient & flash)

■ Learn about your camera - aperture, shutter speed, manual mode, depth of field, ISO setting

■ About White balance, exposure compensation, lens perspective 

■ Portrait lighting basics, types and styles

■ Add to your portfolio shooting great models

■ Key tips on how to start earning money shooting portraits

■ An understanding of different light sources (ambient, flash, modelling lights)

■ Learn about your camera - aperture, shutter speed, manual mode & lots more

■ Portrait lighting basics, types and styles

■ Add to your portfolio shooting great models

■ Key tips on how to start earning money shooting portraits

■ Experience the different characteristic of cameras

■ Learn to develop your style - whether this is creative and experimental, stylised or formal, shoot from the hip or paparazzi style, outdoors or in the controlled environment of a courtyard.

 

■ No previous photographic experience required

■ A compact with manual controls, mirrorless or a DLSR camera

■ Memory Card(s): we recommend at least a 4 GB card for each session of shooting

■ Charged camera battery and a spare if you have one

■ A wide-angle is useful for environmental portraits. A telephoto for single portraits. An all rounder lens like a 24-120mm the most useful*

■ Consider a 50mm prime lens for your DLSR and bring all your other lenses

■ Charged camera battery and a spare if you have one

Time	2pm to 6pm
Location	Riverland Bar -Vaults 1-9 Federation Wharf Melbourne, VIC 3000
Meeting Point	Riverland Bar - (under Princes Bridge - outside tables)

Why do this portrait course with Focus 10?
■ The Focus 10 Melbourne portraiture course will impart a high level of proficiency to the serious amateur photographer or to someone wanting to step up into portrait photography. You will be confident to shoot at a professional level

■ It assumes a proficiency in digital camera handling and technical knowledge. Ideally you will have completed our Beginners course or be able to demonstrate a similar level of competency. The group will be limited to a maximum of 6 people for a highly personalised training experience

.■ Expert tuition: compiled by the working professional portrait photographer Andrew Thomasson

.■ We are authoritative, consummate professionals in both shooting and teaching portrait photography - NOT 'armchair' experts

■ Experience: Andrew & Serena have trained over 1500 students through their Portrait Photography courses running in Sydney, Melbourne & Perth

■ Suitable for everyone: a clear path for the intermediate to advanced, allowing you to gain the specialist skills in order to become a capable, even expert, portrait photographer. Start a small or freelance photography business, work part time or turn your hobby and passion into a professional craft

■ Professional yet fun: our course is delivered and taught in a light hearted and easy going format, free of technical jargon, delivered with a touch of humour in a non intimidating, relaxed manner

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What are some of the other things I will learn
■ Advanced digital SLR camera functions, lens perspective

■ Reportage, documentary, formal, candid, environmental, stylised, point n’ shoot

■ Choice of lenses, accessories and props. Thinking outside the box

■ Skin tones, reflections, white balance, picture style, exposure compensation

■ Quality of light, flash with ambient light, reflectors, hi and low key

■ Art deco and creative modes, black, coloured and white backgrounds

■ Unusual viewpoints and angles / lens and linear perspective

■ High contrast, colour harmony, blurring / freezing of motion, conveying movement

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Is my current skill level and my camera gear suitable to do this course?
■ We  assume you have a proficiency in digital camera handling and technical knowledge. Ideally you will have completed a Beginners course or be able to demonstrate a similar level of competency. ( we have a simple question and answer test if you are unsure)

■ Whilst it's advantageous to have some background photography knowledge, the course has easy to understand, step by step procedures to teach you the techniques to become a competent people and portrait photographer

■ Any full or cropped frame DSLR camera or mirrorless camera is ideal. Full frame cameras with their bigger sensors will give better results in certain situations. For this course one DLSR or mirrorless camera is sufficient. For shooting critical portrait shots, (eg celebrities) you need a back up camera in case of equipment failure 

■ It is important is to have a few quality lenses. A cheap $500 DLSR is capable of taking good people & portrait photographs with some quality glass. Talk to us about your camera gear . We always have some good Nikon & Canon lenses for our students to try out

■ The two main lenses in a people & portrait photographers camera bag would be a 24-70mm and a 70-200mm (preferably on its own dedicated full frame camera body), a wide angle such as a 16-35mm, a telephoto lens e.g. 70-300mm or a mid range lens (e.g. 24-105mm or a 24-120mm). A few prime lenses such as a 50mm f1.8 and a portrait 85mm f1.8 is an inexpensive addition to your kit 

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Who enrols on this course?
■ Anyone with a basic understanding of how your camera works. It is advisable to have some background photography knowledge in knowing your camera's buttons and functions.

■ People who want to become a competent or professional portrait photographer

■ People who want to earn money as a freelance photographer

■ Experienced photographers who want to learn new skills about shooting in a studio

■ Amateur photographers who want to take better portrait photographs

■ This is the perfect photography course for any person to learn for fun and profit - whether you are a real estate agent, architect, designer, traveller, want a full career or just a part time job

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Do you rent out camera gear or give advice on what to buy?
■ We rent Nikon DLSR cameras with an 'all rounder 24-120mm lens for $40

■ Use of studio strobe lights and other accessories is included in the course cost

■ Lexar 32GB SD cards are available for purchase for $25 or bring your own

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Is the course beneficial in building a portfolio?
■ With one-to-one guidance from our experienced photography tutors, and good models to shoot then yes... these images will certainly enhance your portfolio

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Does the course offer further opportunities in this field?
■ Yes - once you have learnt the specific set of skills of portrait photography you can use this knowledge to pursue other related photographic genres. Use these new found skills to photograph family, friends, candid portraits on holiday... to name a few.

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Super smartphone training session for our leisure sales team. Thanks for the complimentary give vouchers to each participant as well. Cheers

--Nick Ward / Head of Leisure Sales

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Focus 10 recently ran a incentive, team building program for us called 'A day in the life at ING'. Their organisation and expertise was impeccable handling over 240 of our staff over 3 days. We think highly of Focus 10 and have a relationship spanning 15 years.

--Tony Hattley / regional manager

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Great job shooting the Bronte Flight Centre! Looks like they our client is bailing out at the right time .. retail strips are not going to be hot sellers in the near future. Are you able to send me hi-res of just the external whole building shots please? Thanks

--Hugh McGlone / Marketing Manager

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This has to be one of the best value and most comprehensive beginners photography courses. A huge amount of content, outside shooting with 10 workshops, 2 night sessions and an additional 4 hour workshop of our choice. I went from zero to hero in my understanding the fundamentals of photography. Keep up the good work!

--Annie knight

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Thanks for the Watagan Park photo shoot of the 4 houses. – Brett was very happy with the outcome and he just wanted to be very clear with the location of the villages (for you to make sure your pricing was correct). He would like you to schedule in some time to go to Wongawilli . Thanks for the great deal on the drone shots as well as the Marsden Parks ones.

-- Sarah King / Graphic Designer

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Focus 10 Photography is our corporate photographer shooting all or staff and website photographs. They particularly understand how photographs play a crucial roll in our marketing and branding. Andrew understands that we are a people business. Many of our clients started with us as start-ups and have gone on to become multi-million dollar enterprises. Their services and value for money is hard to beat.

--Dean Sammut | Director

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Andrew has been our corporate photographer for 8 years shooting all our events, functions and portraits. Focus 10 is reputable, flexible and innovative!

-- Laura 0'Donnell / Marketing Manager

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I was Andrew's wedding assistant for quite a few years and he was always generous with his time and expertise. So thank you! It seems a lifetime ago we shot that wedding at Gunners Barracks in this nasty Covid 19 era.

-- Caragh Lyons | Solutions Architect

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