Name: Portrait Photography Workshop
Price: 225.00 AUD
Availability: InStock
Rating: 5.0 (6 reviews)

Highlights

Learn to produce strong, emotive and interesting portraits
Explore the artistic backdrops around Glebe and Sydney Uni
Professional and experienced instructors

A powerful portrait can challenge, enlighten, or disturb you. This is created in that magical moment in time that captures the essence of your subject. Whether you are taking portraits of family, friends or for business, learn how to make portraiture compelling and memorable.

What's included?

5 hour portrait photography workshop
Detailed course notes will be emailed to you upon completion of the workshop.
Cost of model included

This is an exciting and practical workshop where you learn to produce strong emotive and interesting portraits, utilising the beautiful characteristics of natural light. Working with a model is a great way to learn how to pose and communicate with your subject.

In this workshop you will explore the fundamentals of portraiture and learn techniques that will best help you communicate your ideas. You will learn how to understand the variables of natural light, and how use these tools to achieve a variety of interesting styles and looks. Create powerful and engaging images while exploring the hip area around Glebe and Sydney Uni.

In this 5 hour workshop you will cover the following:

Discussion on portraiture and its genres
Overview on creative controls
Memory, pixels, file sizes, and storage
Fill Flash techniques
Diffuse and bounce light
The nature of light
Exposing for highlight and shadows
Advanced and creative composition
Lens perspective overview
How to communicate with and pose your subject
Setting a mood and creating atmosphere
How to pick your backgrounds and set a style
Explore the fundamentals of portraiture
Understand the variables of natural light to achieve a variety of interesting styles and looks.

What to Bring?

A DSLR camera and lenses (and manual) or camera with manual or adjustable settings (this can include small compact cameras)
Memory card
A spare battery & flash.

Important information

Session Length

This workshop is 5 hours in duration and runs from 9am to 2pm
Available on selected Saturdays throughout the year

Guidelines

Minimum age for participants is 18 years.

Cancellation

Change your booking up to 7 days before the start time of your experience
Changes are not permitted within 7 days of your experience
Late arrivals or no shows may result in you forfeiting your experience

Numbers on the Day

There will be a minimum of 4 and a maximum of 10 participants.

Weather

If it looks like there will be unbearable weather on the day, you'll be contacted early that morning to advise that the workshop will not operate. In the event of cancellation, you can select an alternative workshop date.

Dress Code

Please wear comfy walking shoes.

Other Info

The experience provider is not responsible for any other costs which participants may incur including but not limited to travel, car rental, insurance, photographic purchases and/or rentals.

Location

This experience takes place in Glebe area, Sydney.

Reviews

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POrtrait photography course was excellent

Colin 12 June 2026

The leader was Sharon and she was excellent, clear explanations and great feedback.

Customer Experience

Hi Colin, thanks for sharing, great to hear Sharon made the experience so clear and helpful throughout!

15 June 2026

Highly desirable workshop

Tracey 29 July 2023

Our teacher Sharon had a very knowledgeable and creative approach to photography. This outdoor session included a range of portrait situations with natural light and a delightful very patient model. I found the experience thought provoking, and a useful tool to take my photography to another level. I would highly recommend.

A great portrait photography workshop for newbies

Barbara 1 February 2018

As an enthusiastic amateur photographer I am keen to learn new genres of photography. I was keen to learn portraiture but didn't know where to start. This workshop is a great introduction to portrait photography outside of a studio. Sharon taught us to observe and use the natural light and how to direct our wonderful model to achieve images that expressed the models character and inner strength. I can really recommend this workshop to people new to portrait photography

The workshop was amazing and perfect

Phil 8 January 2017

Nice work of Shane and Sharon by organising such great workshop, and enables us to learn from the professional, e.g. how to observe the light and direct the model. The models (dancers) are amazing too and showcased their skills and personalities with the graffiti and colourful wall in Chippendale as the backdrop.

Very useful, though a tiny bit crowded

Simon 14 August 2015

Almost every other photography course is aimed at amateurs, so this was a great option. It was a tremendously useful and educational day. There were plenty of tips and we were able to put them into practice. It was a little crowded with about 10 of us for one model, which meant there was a tiny bit too much waiting around sometimes, but this far from blighted the experience and it was a thoroughly enjoyable and useful day. It somehow managed to be useful for rank beginners to those of us who had basic understanding of lighting.

Overall, a very recommendable day.

Trent26 26 January 2015

I had the pleasure of working alongside Shane and Daniel, and had a great time! I wasn't exactly sure what I was going to be in for when entering, but I was very impressed with everything the day consisted of. Daniel and Shane were both really nice guys and have the ability to make a somewhat pretty intimidating situation feel as relaxed as possible. I am very happy with the knowledge and little confidence boost that I walked away with.