Creating Compelling Portraits
Presenter: Carolyn Mendelsohn
This webinar explores how to create a compelling portrait, and gives practical starting points and tips that you can use to develop your own photography. Using her own portraits as a starting point, Carolyn explains how she creates her work; and the story behind the portraits she has taken. During the webinar, Carolyn talks about how to use available light, and how to recognize good light. She looks at what lenses and settings to use, and how to connect with a subject, guiding you through how to take great portraits. This session was created to inspire you and to free you to progress further on your photographic journey.
About Carolyn
Carolyn Mendelsohn is a photographer, and filmmaker. Her passion is her personal work; photographic and film work on a large scale, based on the lives of individuals and their stories. Alongside this, she works on personal portrait commissions and commercial briefs, lifestyle and fashion.
Her work has been exhibited internationally, and published by The Guardian, The Sunday Times, The Telegraph, The Independent, La Monde, BJP, RPS Journal and contemporary magazine, amongst others and has been featured online in BBC News, Huffington Post, BuzzFeed, British Journal of Photography and Camera Jabber.
Carolyn has received awards including the 2020 Julia Margaret Cameron Award for Portrait Series, 2020 Open Walls Arles British Journal of Photography, winning BJP, Portrait of Britain 2017, and 2019, Winning The Royal Photographic Society International Print exhibitions RPS IPE 159 gold, and being in the final in for RPS IPE 160. In 2018 she was shortlisted for the International Women Photographers Award, and nominated for the RPS 100 Heroines.
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Webinar Sponsor: Nikon UK
This SheClicks webinar was sponsored by Nikon UK, one of the leaders in digital imaging, precision optics, and photo and video capture technologies. Nikon continues to support its own community and beyond with inspiring content from talented female photographers from across the spectrum.
