Oxford School of Photography

Photographers Workshop ~ teaching photography for 25 years

2 Collins Street, Oxford OX4 1XS tel.01865 246027 mb 07768 572090

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Introduction to Portrait Photography

Subject areas covered

Part 1: Light, direction of light, quality of light, subject empathy, ISO, shutter speed, aperture, depth of field, low light, project assignment

Part 2: Review of students projects, reflectors, lens choice, point of focus, backgrounds, flash, project assignment

Part 3: Review of students projects,subject assessment, posing, hands, wrists, shoulders, head, props, composition, lines, face space, format, rule of thirds, frames, project assignment

Part 4: Review of students projects, studio portraits, practical studio session, instruction of studio techniques, lighting, metering, umbrellas, reflectors, softbox

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"Photographs are perhaps the most mysterious of all the objects that make up, and thicken, the environment we recognize as modern. Photographs really are experience captured, and the camera is the ideal arm of consciousness in its acquisitive mood." Susan Sontag