Masterclass

Welcome to the Pictorial Photography Masterclass

Designed for photographers with a solid understanding of camera basics, our 8 sessions photography masterclass will take your skills to new heights. This hands-on course dives deep into advanced techniques, helping you capture stunning images right from your camera—without relying on post-processing. Our Pictorial Photography Masterclass is designed to push your skills beyond basic photography techniques. Each session focuses on practical, in-camera mastery, to help you achieve high-quality results straight from the camera.

What You’ll Experience:

• Practical Outings: Explore Singapore’s most iconic photography locations during guided monthly outings, designed to enhance your mastery of landscape, portrait, and travel photography.
• Comprehensive Curriculum: Learn advanced techniques, from composition and lighting to black & white photography, ensuring you’re prepared to tackle a variety of creative challenges.
• 1-on-1 Customization: For those looking for a personalized learning experience, our private sessions can be fully tailored to your goals and interests.

With practical guidance and real-world scenarios, this masterclass will help you build a strong, diverse portfolio and hone your skills to produce high-quality images, every time you click the shutter. Ready to take your photography to the next level? Join us now!

1. Landscape Photography

This session will teach you how to capture landscapes that convey a sense of place and emotion.

• Key Focus Areas:
  • Utilizing natural light effectively, including the golden hour and blue hour.
  • Applying compositional rules like the rule of thirds, leading lines, and framing.
  • Long-exposure techniques to capture motion (e.g., water or clouds).
  • How to use filters such as neutral density (ND) and polarizers to control light and reflections.
  • Achieving depth and scale through lens choices and foreground/background balance.

Practical Location:

• To Be Advised: Location offers a mix of urban and natural landscapes for practising different approaches to capturing the environment.

2. Advanced Composition

This session dives into the art of creating dynamic and compelling compositions, pushing beyond the basics.

• Key Focus Areas:
  • Breaking traditional rules to create unique compositions.
  • Using negative space to emphasize subjects.
  • Exploring depth, layers, and patterns to enhance visual interest.
  • Incorporating movement and flow into static scenes.
  • Experimenting with unconventional perspectives and angles.

Practical Location:

• To Be Advised: These locations provide diverse subjects, from architecture to nature, ideal for experimenting with advanced compositional techniques.

3. Black & White Photography

Learn to see the world in shades of grey, focusing on texture, contrast, and form in black & white photography.

• Key Focus Areas:
  • Understanding light, shadow, and contrast to create impactful black & white images.
  • Focus on texture, form, and mood in your compositions.
  • Identifying scenes that work best in black & white versus colour.
  • Using contrast and tonal range to evoke emotion.
  • Techniques for capturing minimalist and abstract subjects effectively.

Practical Location:

• To Be Advised: A location with open spaces and seascapes ideal for practising the elements of black & white photography, focusing on form and contrast.

4. Travel Photography

This session will prepare you to tell compelling stories through your travel photos, capturing the essence of the places you visit.

• Key Focus Areas:
  • Capturing the culture, architecture, and atmosphere of a location.
  • Combining landscape, street, and portrait techniques to create a cohesive narrative.
  • Working efficiently with available light while travelling.
  • Techniques for creating dynamic compositions in busy, urban environments.
  • Building rapport with people to take authentic and respectful travel portraits.

Practical Location:

• To Be Advised: These vibrant neighbourhoods offer excellent opportunities to practice travel photography by capturing colourful markets, street scenes, and local portraits.

5. Portrait Photography

This session focuses on the art of capturing captivating portraits that reveal character and personality.

• Key Focus Areas:
  • Manipulating natural light for flattering or dramatic effects in portraiture.
  • Techniques for achieving sharp focus on the eyes, while using depth of field to isolate your subject.
  • How to interact with your subjects to get natural expressions.
  • Posing techniques to create flattering, authentic images.
  • Capturing candid moments versus posed portraits.

Practical Location:

• To Be Advised: These bustling areas provide excellent settings for creating environmental portraits and candid images of people in their natural surroundings.

6. Advanced Lighting Techniques

Light control is essential to photography, and this session covers advanced methods for manipulating natural and artificial light.

• Key Focus Areas:
  • Understanding how to balance natural and artificial light in complex lighting scenarios.
  • Using off-camera flash techniques to create dramatic lighting effects.
  • Incorporating reflectors and diffusers to soften harsh light or add fill light.
  • Mastering backlighting, side lighting, and rim lighting for different effects.
  • Creating mood and storytelling through careful light placement.

Practical Location:

• To Be Advised: These locations offer a variety of light conditions, from natural daylight to artificial lighting at night, perfect for advanced lighting practice.

or Create a Customizable Masterclass With our 1-on-1 Private Sessions

These sessions allow for completely personalized learning, focusing on the skills and techniques you most want to develop.

• Key Customization Options:
  • Specialized Genres: Explore genres like street, macro, architecture, or wildlife photography.
  • Lighting Mastery: A deep dive into natural or flash lighting techniques.
  • Portfolio Development: Focus on a cohesive personal project with guidance on execution and planning.
  • Creative Exploration: Tackle creative challenges or assignments to push your photography in new directions.

Practical Location:
The location for these private sessions is flexible and customizable to your preferences, allowing you to focus on the subjects and styles that most interest you.

By mastering the techniques in this course, you can create compelling, high-quality images directly through your camera, without reliance on post-processing. Each session will help refine your skills and broaden your creative approach in real-world settings.