Portrait Workshop London? - Updated with Findings

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Hi All,


I'm looking to do a portrait workshop in the general London area ( happy to travel a bit outside if required) early next year.

I'm not looking for a great deal, I really just want some tips, general skills pointers and confidence building with a model/s ? Am I asking too much? :help:

I have done a search on here and on google but only seem to be able to turn up either stupidly expensive master classes or ones aimed at people who have only just bought a DSLR :-/ :shrug:

Tad confused ATM, any advise or recommendations would be great appreciated :nuts:
 
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Organise a TP meet with a paid model (about £100-£150 will be enough)

If she's any good she'll brim over with ideas anyway and can even explain what works and why to an extent, and if you get 6-8 of you together you can not only share costs but also ideas too

If you're really lucky, one of the other attendees will know what they are doing too - but you can Google for ideas and 'rules' beforehand, Pinterest shots you'd like to replicate even and check on your phone as you go

I know a lovely lass who lives in London, she's done some outdoor modelling for me recently and has featured in FHM and worked with Damien Lovegrove too (she's in one of his DVDs), and if she's not available she can recommend 100 others easily enough

Next time I'm in London I'll be seeing if she's free for a meet up again with some other TP mates :)

If you do it this way you can play all day for about £20-£30 each, bounce ideas off others and then post on here for added crit

Just a thought :shrug:

Dave
 
Cheers Dave :)

That gives me something to think about, i'll look into doing something similar :)

If you set anything up i'm sure I would be interested :)

Thanks again for taking the time to post :D
 
Im london based and could be interested in something along these lines early next year. Keep me posted as sharing costs is not aproblem at all

Greg
 
Go to meetup.com

Search for Photography Workshops - they're quite a few London-based photography meetup groups (about 20) which organise that kind of thing.
 
So I looked up meetup.com, I think I get the idea.....

It does seem to be a mix of almost camera club type groups and people using it for advertising... An I right?

Has anyone been on a 'meet up' ?

Ill look into in over the next few days there are one or two that look quite interesting so may take a punt if its cheap enough :D
 
Before the workshop
What’s in your bag

• Knowing your camera and equipment

• What camera mode to shoot in for best results
You should know very well what you are going to give to people through your workshop!!
Just be clear about basics and you will be good!
Best of luck
 
Hey Rohit,

I'm not running a workshop, far from it im looking to go on one :)

I feel i'm very competent with my camera and all my equipment :) Im looking to learn more about posing and model interaction ext :)
 
So after a bit of lurking on meetUp.com I decided on a portrait hands on type meet that seemed to be pretty interesting I did a write up for my blog but ill just post it here for anyone who's interested :D

So a few weeks ago I decided I'd give MeetUp.com a go, having been in the market for some photography based workshops and the like for a while I was pretty overwhelmed when I first signed up! There are tens of groups all focusing on portrait photography. So with only twelve quid on the line for one the next weekend I though I'd give it a go. . .
Well it seems I picked a popular event, or a lot of people got DSLRs for christmas :p, but the event soon filled up and even had a waiting list!!!
The MeetUp its self was scheduled to be outside the National Theatre in South Bank, and despite apple maps best attempts at sending me to the Tate modern I managed to find a likely lot of camera bag carrying people outside the theatre :)
It turned out to be a large group, 23 in total, with a large range of experiences and gear from beginners to pros and from 3/4ths systems to medium format film cameras! The tutor was a few mins late but then again it was a sunday so London's usually impeccable transport system can be excused ( BTW if you think public transport in london isn't amazing try living in 90% of the rest of the world!!!).
Once everyone was seated in a quiet section of the Theatre's cafe it was down to business, the organiser / tutor went through a number of tips and tricks type things. Now if you were after a very in detail 'this is the shutter button' type day then you would be very disappointed, for me this worked out great because it was more about just getting out there and trying out taking some portraits with other people. Assignments were given after the brief talk each with different targets, we then split into groups and had a go for 45mins.
This was the bit I was most looking forward too as I really just wanted some confidence shooting people, the friendly atmosphere of the group was great for this!! The organiser came round to talk to each of the groups and had a brief word which was nice.
Then we reconvened and had a short chat about what we had just done before going off to try some other things. After another session shooting the group met up a final time for a chat, I headed home at this point as I'd been out the night before as well as worked during the day so needed a nap :-P

Overall I found it very useful and I greatly enjoyed the afternoon for 12 squid you can't go wrong really, I'll certainly be trying out some more 'MeetUp's in the future!!
 
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