This 2-day intensive workshop conducted by well-known photographer Ibarra Deri will provide you with the skills and know-how necessary in the lucrative trade of portraiture. Deri, considered a who's-who in portrait photography, will provide tips and techniques that are beyond the basics and can only be learned through years of experience and spending a lot of time and money.

What will be covered

• Use of 120 format (medium format) cameras
  • Advantages/disadvantages of medium format cameras
  • Types of medium format cameras
• Films
• Posing the models
  • Solo posing
  • Couple posing
  • Group posing
• Types of portraiture
  • Classic
  • Glamour
  • Beauty
  • Representational
• Lighting
  • Broad
  • Short
  • Large light source
  • Small light source
  • Rembrandt lighting
  • Hollywood lighting
  • Hatchet lighting
  • Glamour lighting
• Creative Lighting techniques

Requirements

Students are required to bring their own SLR cameras, whether analog or digital. Films, however, will be provided for. They should have completed our Basic Photography workshop, or have equivalent experience.

What students liked most about this workshop

Mr. Deri is an inspiration to serious amateur photographers like me. With the training I got from PCCI and Mr. Deri, I believe this is my next step to professional portrait photography. -- Cap Gautier

The very practical orientation -- Giorgio Iaksetich

Mr. Deri's style and ideas -- Carlos Bermudo