Child Portraiture - The Art of Shooting the Story
with Jo de Banzie

Dates:
TBC

Venue:
TBC

Schedule:
Start 09.00 - End 17.30

The Concept
Learn how to raise your game from shooting children’s portraiture to shooting high end fine art children’s portraiture worth many times the fee. Learn the value of a signature style and take onboard the elements needed to create your own fine art concepts for the discerning client.

What will I learn
The first part of this masterclass will cover creating images for the wall. How to maximise sales by creating an irresistible image designed for a specific space. Working with a single model, we’ll discuss how to design an image to complement a client’s interior style. We’ll consider colour palette, space, scale, framing and finishing.
The second half of the day will cover ‘Shooting the story’. Portraiture comes alive with a collection of images that tell the story of a family at a particular point in their lives. Pre-selling the idea of an album or wall collage allows us to shoot specifically for the story and removes some of the speculative nature of a photo shoot.
Working with child models, we’ll think through how create a story consisting of ‘vignettes’, which translate into chapters in a 40-image album. Combining more considered portraits with candid moments, and binding them together by reference to the landscape or environment.

What will I need to bring
There are no hard and fast rules but expect to need a dSLR body, any make will be fine, with lenses from 24mm - 100mm (on full frame) f/2.8 or wider is ideal, but image stabilised f/4 lenses will be fine too. If you own any reflectors feel free to bring along these too.