Course Details
Face to Face: Making Powerful Portraits
25 Feb 2014
Personal Interest
Photography
Victoria University Community Continuing Education
This course is only offered in Wellington
After Hours
8 weeks, Mon 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM and two workshops Sat 9:30 AM - 1:30 PM
8 weeks, Mon 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM and two workshops Sat 9:30 AM - 1:30 PM
$380.00
Including GST
Including GST
Overview:
Making portraits is like trying to catch lightning in a bottle – tricky to do but deeply satisfying when achieved. This course teaches you the soft skills you need to encourage your subject to reveal some of the essence of themselves before your lens and the technical skills that will allow you to capture that unique moment. When we combine these skills, we become capable of confidently making portraits that reveal rather than just record.
Target audience:
This course is targeted to interest the general public.
Learning objectives:
By the end of this course participants will have gained:
•a specific skill set to enable them to take control of the portrait making process with confidence
•the ability to evaluate environments and conditions and to utilise them well in their portrait making
•an appreciation of the importance of creating rapport with their subjects
•the ability to evaluate which skills are required for the type of portrait you are making
Course outline:
Each week you will be given homework to help you integrate classroom learning with hands-on practice.
Each week you will get access to class notes via electronic drop box before class to allow you to familiarise yourself with the topic for the week before coming to class. This will allow maximum time in class to take part in class activities that provide an opportunity to put lesson concepts into practice.
Week 1: Introduction and what is a Portrait? Intention.
Week 2: Tripping the Light Fantastic: Looking at lighting, looking at the different styles of lighting – lighting for beauty, lighting for drama, lighting for realism.
Week 3: Posing and Portrait: Specific composition: posing versus ‘natural’, the rule of odds, playing with planes & perspective, using the frame.
Week 4: The Human Factor: Building rapport and developing techniques for getting the best from your subject.
Week 4: Location Workshop (Saturday)
Week 5: Critique of Workshop Images and Planning and Preparation: Good shoots don’t just happen they require planning & preparation. Looking at shot lists, lens selection, location scouting.
Week 6: Technical Nuts and Bolts: Dealing with depth of field, which lens for which job? Focusing on focus, sorting out the background, metering.
Week 7: Different Portraits Utilise Different Skills: Singles, couples, small groups & families, environmental portraits, photographing children.
Week 7: Location Workshop (Saturday)
Week 8: Integration & Critique of Workshop
Course format:
This lecture series is held on eight Monday evenings and two Saturdays over 8 weeks.
There will be a short break half-way through each evening session. You are welcome to bring a drink or something to eat if you wish.
Class limit:
This course is limited to a maximum of 14 participants, so please enrol early.
Making portraits is like trying to catch lightning in a bottle – tricky to do but deeply satisfying when achieved. This course teaches you the soft skills you need to encourage your subject to reveal some of the essence of themselves before your lens and the technical skills that will allow you to capture that unique moment. When we combine these skills, we become capable of confidently making portraits that reveal rather than just record.
Target audience:
This course is targeted to interest the general public.
Learning objectives:
By the end of this course participants will have gained:
•a specific skill set to enable them to take control of the portrait making process with confidence
•the ability to evaluate environments and conditions and to utilise them well in their portrait making
•an appreciation of the importance of creating rapport with their subjects
•the ability to evaluate which skills are required for the type of portrait you are making
Course outline:
Each week you will be given homework to help you integrate classroom learning with hands-on practice.
Each week you will get access to class notes via electronic drop box before class to allow you to familiarise yourself with the topic for the week before coming to class. This will allow maximum time in class to take part in class activities that provide an opportunity to put lesson concepts into practice.
Week 1: Introduction and what is a Portrait? Intention.
Week 2: Tripping the Light Fantastic: Looking at lighting, looking at the different styles of lighting – lighting for beauty, lighting for drama, lighting for realism.
Week 3: Posing and Portrait: Specific composition: posing versus ‘natural’, the rule of odds, playing with planes & perspective, using the frame.
Week 4: The Human Factor: Building rapport and developing techniques for getting the best from your subject.
Week 4: Location Workshop (Saturday)
Week 5: Critique of Workshop Images and Planning and Preparation: Good shoots don’t just happen they require planning & preparation. Looking at shot lists, lens selection, location scouting.
Week 6: Technical Nuts and Bolts: Dealing with depth of field, which lens for which job? Focusing on focus, sorting out the background, metering.
Week 7: Different Portraits Utilise Different Skills: Singles, couples, small groups & families, environmental portraits, photographing children.
Week 7: Location Workshop (Saturday)
Week 8: Integration & Critique of Workshop
Course format:
This lecture series is held on eight Monday evenings and two Saturdays over 8 weeks.
There will be a short break half-way through each evening session. You are welcome to bring a drink or something to eat if you wish.
Class limit:
This course is limited to a maximum of 14 participants, so please enrol early.
Teacher:
Jordyn OKeeffe has been teaching adults how to be creative through the medium of photography for the past decade. She holds an advanced diploma of photography from Massey University, and her work has appeared in Next Magazine. Jordyn is passionate about getting students to see the benefits to their day-to-day lives of being creative. She is currently studying for an advanced diploma of creativity at the Learning Connexion.
Jordyn OKeeffe has been teaching adults how to be creative through the medium of photography for the past decade. She holds an advanced diploma of photography from Massey University, and her work has appeared in Next Magazine. Jordyn is passionate about getting students to see the benefits to their day-to-day lives of being creative. She is currently studying for an advanced diploma of creativity at the Learning Connexion.