Teacher teacher!

[swoop]

So I just signed up to teach a workshop. It's on environmental portraiture. It's only 2 hours long and more of a hands on trial run to see if they want to offer me work to teach additional workshops.

I have previous experience teaching. I was a TA in college and taught photo 1 and photo 2 on my own. And I did a weekend photo workshop with a bunch of kids at a summer camp a few years ago.

I'm a bit nervous. For the interview I had to lay out and explain what I'd teach and how I'd teach it. But the class is really geared to beginners and the thing I'm having trouble figuring out is what they are going to photograph. The obvious answer seems each other but that's kinda lame.

Anyway, I was wondering if any of you were attending a workshop on environmental portraiture what would you expect out of it?

 

[kbg32]

*Lighting - natural vs. incandescent vs. flash/fill
*Looking for environments and objects that relate to the sitter
*Review some well known portrait photographers and their images that utilize the sitter's
environment

etc., etc.

 

[shadowfox]

If the students are beginners, you'd want to start with showing them the components that makes up a good portrait and environment shots.

Photography workshop works well to instill the concept of "how to develop your vision."

One session is actually not enough to do hands on because the students won't have any knowledge to apply yet.

 

[Bill Clark]

Perhaps a handout on lighting patterns.

How to find controlled natural light. What's the difference relative to set-up when photographing with natural light as compared to artificial?

Shadows are an important ingredient when making people pictures.

Do you want to cover topics like facial angles, how feminine and basic poses look, camera height, selection of clothing, body positions?

The list can be overwhelming, especially for beginners!

Hope this helps you.