Portrait Photography Course ( street)

■ 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 & Speedlite flash

■ 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

■ Better use of your smartphone - great for social media style content

■ Learn to develop your style - whether this is creative and experimental, stylised or formal, shoot from the hip or paparazzi style, 

 

■ No previous photographic experience required

■ A compact with manual controls, mirrorless, DSLR or Smartphone camera

■ Memory Card(s): we recommend at least a 8 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 DSLR and bring all your other lenses

■ Charged camera battery and a spare if you have one

Time	2pm to 5pm
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 5 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 beginner to advanced, allowing you to gain the specialist skills in order to become a capable 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?
■ Whilst you may be a beginner its an advantage if 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, mirrorless camera or the latest in smartphone cameras 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 pure creativity and simplicty of use , smartphones and compact cameras are great.

■ For those with DSLR/ mirrorless 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.

■ 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 - from social media influencers just using a smartphone to those with expensive DSLR, mirrorless & compact camera gear.
■ People who want to become a competent portrait photographer

■ People who want to earn money as a freelance photographer

■ Experienced photographers who want to learn new skills

■ Amateur photographers who want to take better portrait photographs & have a fun afternoon

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

■ 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 tutor 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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Do you coincide these street photography shoots with local events?
Yes we do. For instance we often run this course when local events such as the Melbourne fashion week is on allowing us to shoot a wide variety of models. https://mfw.melbourne.vic.gov.au/event/pop-up-3/

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Great to meet you. Christie and I love your work. We think that the 4 attached, at this phase of our project would fit well and we would be keen to see if any of these would be able to be blown up to a large wall art format.

--Kate Hopwood | Head of Design

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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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Hi Andrew... Thanks for a fantastic day today. I'm keen to do the SLR 2 and night photography, please let me know dates. Thanks again!

--Alex Jucovic

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Thank you for photographing or 43 staff members over the quoted 7 hours. You must be exhausted . Everyone seemed very happy and liked how you showed them the head shots as you were shooting. Can you get them to use by Thursday please? Talk soon

--Irina Fedorova

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Andrew gave our staff training in how to get better social media shots on our smartphones in on location at our farms in Murrurundi NSW and Canungra QLD. The training was very concise and professional and he even gave us free lessons on flying his drone. We are certainly happy to recommend Focus 10 for photography for any training.

--Adelaide Moses / Marketing and Communications Manager

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Andrew has been training our staff, photographing for us over 30 years and has led many Australian and overseas photography tours for World Expeditions. A superb photographer with the ability to handle pressure and to deal with the unexpected. Andrew is very personable and always delivers way more than asked for. Highly recommended.

-- Sue Badyari / General Manager

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I want to thank you very much for the course a last Saturday. It was very easy to learn through this sort of experience. The models were gorgeous! I will be confident enough to do a small wedding and the course manual is incredibly detailed. Thanks.

--Sam Khoudair / wedding photographer

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Focus 10 runs fantastic, informative and always fun courses and tours. I have done 4 of them now - Blue Mountains, Southern Highlands, 3801 Steam train and the most recent to Jervis Bay. Always a laugh and with excellent like minded, fellow photographers!

--Sean Dudding | product owner

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