Holiday Family Photos

Note: We've moved! Visit us at http://washingtonphotosafari.com for registration.

Think you are good at taking pictures of people but would like to be even better? Good! We have the perfect safari for you: an introduction to the principles of good indoor portrait lighting and posing WITHOUT expensive professional studio lighting equipment, taught by professional portrait photographer Bob Blanken at his studio in Bethesda, MD. If you want to learn how to photograph your family indoors, or your friends and colleagues in their homes or offices over the holidays, come join us for three hour beginner-level session on how to:

- pose family members indoors in natural window light;
- use bounce and swivel flash units and reflectors to achieve fill lighting
- working with the backgrounds you have available
- determine correct exposure and white balance
- achieve a flattering composition
- lighting groups
- use simple slave flash units, like the Morris, for balanced lighting, and select lenses for portrait work (for SLR's AND point and shoots) that blur the background.

Bring our camera, lenses,  flash and light meter (if you have one, not required)

Robert N. 'Bob' Blanken, CPP, Cr. Photog. is a Faculty member of both the Washington Photo Safari and the Panasonic Digital Photography Academy. He also leads local classes for the Professional Photographers of America. Bob is currently president of The Professional Photographers Society of Greater Washington and a past president of the Maryland Professional Photographers Association. He is the 2006 and 2002 (ISES) Capital Award Winner for Best Social Photographer and the 2003 ISES Capital Award Winner for Best Corporate Photographer. Bob has been nominated 19 times as Best Photographer by the Greater Washington Chapter of the International Special Events Society and three times by the International Society.