Pas De Deux Photo and PhotoDay team up for Recital Portraits Workshop in chicago suburbs Nov 21-22

Rose Coleman and Ron McKinney to lead Recital Portraits Workshop

PhotoDay is teaming up with Rose Coleman and Ron McKinney to put together an outstanding two days of education on Dance Recital Portraits on Nov. 21-22 at the RMP Studio in Crystal Lake, IL. This is designed for photographers already doing multiple dance studio recital portraits who are looking to be more efficient, improve their workflow, learn how PhotoDay can help with efficiency and sales, and how to add on more dance schools. It’s also for photographers who are looking to start doing recital portraits.

We’ll break down all the logistics of running the recital portrait photoshoot, all the gear you need, all the technology you need. We will share the different ways we both run our recital portrait photo shoots.

The price for this 2-day workshop is just $575 for one person, or $862.50 for two people from the same photography studio. Lunch is included on Friday. We’re also getting block discount pricing for hotel rooms at a Holiday Inn within two miles of the workshop location.

We are limiting registration to 50 attendees, so act early to get your spot.

Click on the button below to register for the workshop. You can see the agenda down below.

Artistic Lighting Workshop on Nov. 23

An artistic lighting for dancers will be held on Sunday, Nov. 23, at the RMP studio. Ron McKinney will lead the workshop with a morning full of education on lighting and posing dancers, and how to work with them to get the very best out of them. Some of the topics include using silk fabric, shooting with fog, and capturing the peak moment of a leap from the appropriate angle, and how to shoot whether you have one light or five lights.

The afternoon will be spent with each of the attendees taking turns for 5-minute shoots in each setting: black marley and background, wood flooring and background, and a color paper background (color not determined yet). Each attendee will get three 5-minute shoots with a dancer. Either Ron or a dance teacher will be on hand to assist on the shoot.

We are limiting registration to 36 attendees. Price is $395. For those also attending the recital portraits workshop, the price will just be $295.

Click on the button below to register for the workshop. Check down below for sample images.

RECITAL PORTRAITS SAMPLE IMAGES

Rose Coleman/Center Stage Sample Photos

RON McKinney Photography Sample Images for Recital Portraits

AGENDA FOR RECITAL PORTRAIT WORKSHOP NOV 21-22

FRIDAY, Nov. 21
9 am.   Welcome and Intro to Ron and Rose and PhotoDay

9:15 What to do to Prepare for Recital Portrait Day (Ron & Rose Discussion)

Pre-orders/Scheduling Sessions

-  Prepping Organization (Class Rosters)

-  Setting Expectations with Dance School – what is their involvement?

10:00 Logistics to Running a Recital Portrait Session on Location (Demo and Discussion)

-  Backdrops, Lighting, Camera and Lens

-  One or Two Setups

-  Shooting against black vs white backdrops/marley

-  Multi-days vs One day shoots

-  Next Level:  Tripod

Tethered to TV

11:15 Running the Recital Portrait Shoot (Ron & Rose Demo and Discussion)

-  Using online pre-orders vs manning a table for Same-Day orders

-  Using an Assistant to Document the Dancers  (Ron)

- who do you hire as assistants

-  How to get 2-3 poses/dancer per minute

-  What settings to use for Individual Dancers

-  Lighting Schemes

-  Shooting Groups (changes in settings)

-  Who’s Your Poser?  

-  Dancer safety.

-  Using the Posing Banner

-  How to Deal with Parents

10:45 Ron & Rose Demos of a recital portrait shoot

12:15 Lunch

1;00 Ron & Rose Demos of a recital portrait shoot

2:00 Selling Your Products (Demo and Discussion)

-  Using PhotoDay (Rose and PhotoDay)

-  Using Your Own System (Ron)

- Jotform for pre-orders, Pixieset for Viewing Gallery orders

-  Products to sell

-  Things that can upsell

-  Average order minimum of $70/dancer

- 100 dancers = $7,000-plus

- 200 dancers = $14,000-plus

3:00 Getting New Dance Schools (Ron & Rose Discussion)

-  How to approach new schools

-  The discussion of Kickbacks vs other items

-  Comp Teams vs Rec Teams/Recital Portraits

4:15 Post-production After the Recital Shoot (Ron & Rose Demo and Discussion)

-  Using Your Own Staff

-  Culling and Cropping, Batch Edit, Export to Viewing Folder

-  Fulfilling Orders

5:00 Workshop Ends for the Day

8:00 Social Gathering at Holiday Inn bar

SATURDAY, Nov 22

9:00 Selling Shoots after the Recital Portraits (Ron & Rose Discussion)

9:45 PhotoDay:  How Easy it Works

12:00 Cheerleader Teams: Shoots and Pricing (Rose)

12:30 Q&A

1:00 Workshop Ends