Join the travel photographer, Sony ambassador and protagonist of the series ‘Aperture: A World of Stories’ to his latest online photography course. In this workshop you will learn tools to break the ice with the people you have always wanted to photograph, understand how to control the natural light in complicated situations, including the color in your composition, directing the subject and discuss about photography ethics when documenting diverse cultures around the world.

In this course you will understand the most important resources to create a breath-taking portrait, as the ideal lens, the composition and the light. All this while you enjoy a cinema-like experience while learning in three countries as the main locations of the workshop: Colombia, Ethiopia and South Sudan.

What is the portrait and how to include it as part of the travel photography world? How to become a portrait photographer and get the expected results? You will learn about references, stories and light.

Building a portrait is not only about pressing the shutter speed of the camera in front of someone’s face. It is about creating the right situation, the person, the sight, and the expression combined with the right light. To achieve this, it is mandatory to understand the human connection with our subject. Here we will share some advices to get it.

Learn photography composition is vital to be a storyteller; nevertheless, it is also important to understand how to break those rules to create striking images. Being prepared and planning your portraits will allow you to break those basic rules. No matter in what skill level you are in photography, in this module you will learn how to use light and composition on your side.

As important as it is to choose correctly the subject to photograph, it is also important to choose the right lens to take the portrait. In this module you will understand what results you can get with different focal lengths. You will also understand the importance of color when framing your subject in your foreground and your background.

When we travel to wonderful places in the world to document diverse cultures, we find unbelievable faces that hook up our attention. Generally, this faces are always surrounded by breath-taking landscapes. In this module, you will understand how to mix the two of them and create impressive compositions.

Photography is dynamic and the way we understand it can change through the time. In this module we will analyze and discuss study cases that have brought to the table important conversations regarding portrait photography.

Rules were made to be broken, but in order to do so, we need tools that help us to guide the viewer’s eyes and understand portrait as something beyond the face. How to tell a story through a portrait? How to tell a community’s story? Let’s experiment here! In this module we will create together.