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

■ Ideal for building your portfolio

■ Key tips on how to start earning money shooting portraits

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

■ Intuitive instruction on creative composition 

■ Exposure control to white balance, from ISO settings to focus options

■ 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 Cards: 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

* More on camera gear and equipment in the FAQ section

Time	2pm to 5pm
Location	The University of Western Australia 35 Stirling Hwy, Crawley WA 6009
Meeting Point	University of WA - Winthrop Hall stairs

Why do this portrait course with Focus 10?
■ The Focus 10 Perth 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 with assignments 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 and notes 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.( eg Large group shots) For this course one DLSR or mirrorless camera is sufficient. For shooting critical portrait shots, (eg weddings & 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 eg. 70-300mm or a mid range lens (eg 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?
■ 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 with a bit of basic camera knowledge beforehand to learn for fun and profit

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Do you rent out camera gear or give advice on what to buy?
■ We rent Canon and /or Nikon DLSR cameras with an 'all rounder 24-120mm lens and a 50mm f1.8 for $50

■ Use of reflectors and other accessories is included in the course cost

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

■ Upon booking - you receive detailed notes and tips on good portraiture camera gear

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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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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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Hi Andrew,

It was great to catch up with you this afternoon. I feel that doing your course was extremely beneficial and since then, using your tips, my confidence and ability with my camera has increase exponentially. Thank you so much for the information on the Indian photo processing lab. I hope that I'm able to get good at Photoshop and Lightroom but it's good to have them there as a back up just in case.

--Katrina Price

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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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The course was great. Have done a few shoots since the course with some good results ( I Think. LOL). I’m ready to hit the ground running now. Thanks so much for all your help. The course was well worth it that’s for sure.

--Andrew Patrick

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Thanks for the feedback and I am loving your photos. We look forward to catching up again when you are next in Byron Bay

--Sarah Gasparre / real estate photographer

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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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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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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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