PCAD Portrait and Event Photography Class

For the past 5 weeks, I've been immersed in photography for 3 hours a day, two nights a week taking the "Portrait and Event Photography" course at the Pennsylvania College of Art and Design in Lancaster. It's been a great experience, working with other photographers as closely as we did, and getting to know some great people. The class consisted of a lot of shooting, both in class and outside, and then critique. The critique was by far, the most valuable part of taking the class. Getting the opinions of everyone else on my images, and giving my opinions of their images reinforced what works and what doesn't, as well as gave me some great ideas for posing and locations on upcoming shoots.

It was during the final portfolio critique that I discovered the style that I've had all along. All of the images chosen for the final, and now displayed in the portfolio section of my website, have the same punchy, vibrant, fun flare to them, including the shot shown to the right, which I shot of one of the other photographers attending the class. 

Regardless of where you are in your career, taking a class such as this one, attending a workshop, or being active with local photography groups gives you a great opportunity to see what others are doing, and share what you are doing. It's through the sharing of information, locations, poses, gear reviews and all other things photographic that we all become better at our art, and achieve greater results in our final images.