What makes a strong portrait? How do you work with a subject and their environment to create a truly striking image? In this in-depth class, you’ll learn how to work with people to bring out the emotions and energy you’re looking for in a shot. Pro photographer Frank Lavelle will be your guide. Through slide shows, in-depth discussions about portrait styles and techniques, portraiture demos, and helpful assignments, you’ll learn to create compelling portraits that express your vision.

You’ll also learn how to scout locations with an eye for light and time of day, and how to choose spaces that meaningfully synthesize subject with environment. Class will also include an overview of tools and techniques for portraiture.

Students should bring cameras and may shoot with film or digitally.

Frank Lavelle has been a photographer and educator for over thirty years. He has led photography workshops all over the world, including trips to Ireland, Venice, Turkey, and Morocco. He has taught at the Corcoran School of Art, the University of Delaware, and Trinity College, as well as at nationally recognized photography workshops, including the Maine Photographic Workshops, Palm Beach Photo Workshops, the Lepp Institute of Digital Imaging, and Santa Fe Photographic Workshops. For 25 years, he was Director of Photographic Education for the Smithsonian Associates in Washington, DC. He regularly exhibits his own work, at the Kathleen Ewing Gallery in DC, and elsewhere. In addition to his teaching and fine-art work, Frank has worked continuously in the commercial field – photographing events, fashion, products, architecture, dance and theatre productions, kings and queens, and just about anything else.

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