Three days with Peter Coulson (workshop)

Peter Coulson's three-day workshop is designed to teach, inspire, and reignite your creativity. The focus is to teach you how Peter works technically, and how he achieves his emotive, breathtaking, and captivating style of photography, but also provide you with the tools and knowledge to produce images for yourself. As well as this, participants will learn how to create better photos without the expense of a high-end model, stylists, makeup artist and luxurious location.

Topics covered

Natural Light

Reignite your love and excitement for photography by seeing, learning and shooting how Peter works outdoors, both commercially and during his own creative photoshoots. Learn his techniques on how to find the perfect light in any location, in the ugliest locations, with any model or client, in order to create flawless beauty portraits and fashion photographs.

Going through all weather conditions, Peter will teach why middle of the day sun is the easiest and most stunning, and his favourite time of day to create dramatic and clean images that need minimum or no retouching.

Photoshop

Learn every tool and its function that Peter relies on, as well as his step-by-step processes from the RAW file through to uploading images on the web without the use of frequency separation, actions or presets – just simple darkroom techniques working with lightening and darkening.

Peter will cover everything you need to know about his black and white images and all his retouching secrets as well as social media tips and tricks. Peter will provide his TIFF files edited from the workshop and previous retouched images so you can see every layer, and what he’s done.

Studio techniques and posing models

Learn how light works, how to change, manipulate it and how to develop your style and look. This intensive hands-on workshop will include 1-on-1 shooting, learning, as well covering model posing and communication, offering you fresh ideas on how to make photography and lighting simple and easy.

Advanced studio techniques and “breaking the model”

The focus here is on advanced lighting setups that still keep your photography simple, easy, clean and beautiful. It also covers Peter's photoshoot workflow, from start to finish. It’s an intensive hands-on day of learning, perfecting and shooting beauty and fashion, perfect for photographers that want to expand their knowledge of studio photography.