Advanced Photography Class (Workflow and Business)

Part 1: Workflow
Everyone wants to know how I get a wedding edited in one day and a portrait shoot edited and ready to present in less than two hours.  This class will show everything!  We will be talking about MY workflow from start to finish which will include all the different pieces of software that I use to get the job done as fast as possible.  This will include everything from initial download of memory cards, renaming and organizing images, raw processing, photoshop actions, setting up files for a sales session, etc. 

Part 2: Portraits
We will discuss what to look for and how to see/use light to your advantage when doing portraits.  We'll talk a bit about lenses and camera settings to use during portraiture. 
This will include discussing and breaking down a location by showing wide angle shots of the location along with showing zoomed in shots that the clients received.  This lesson is very important to help you get ideas on what to look for when scouting a location.
With each image we will discuss lighting, shadows and processing of each photo and use the workflow discussed earlier to process an actual shoot from start to finish

Part 3: Image presentation, album design, lighting
Methods of sizing, printing, and displaying your photographs.  Includes further discussion on up-sampling, down-sampling, adding borders and mattes digitally, printing, mounting, framing, designing storybooks using Photoshop, companies that will do the printing/binding of the books, etc.
Things to consider when doing different types of shoots from equipment to location (outdoors, indoors, different lighting situations, inside a house, someones backyard, etc.)
We will discuss shooting in low-light situations using ambient light, on-camera flash, remote flash, or video light.  Methods to process those images to remove grain and noise and clean up the pictures. We will talk about methods of shooting where you do NOT need a studio.

Part 4: Starting a photography business
We will discuss what you need in terms of equipment, insurance, and paperwork. Ideas on how to get started and how to promote and advertise yourself.  How to charge for different types of jobs.  How to sell your images.  What type of income can be expected when starting out and after getting established.  Taxes and other expenses and what you can write-off as a business expense.  A few differences between an LLC and an S-Corp.

There are currently no advanced classes on the schedule, but if you are interested, please let me know so I can put you on the mailing list for it. You can provide us your information here:

http://www.arisingimages.com/information/contact_us/contact_us_photo_student/