Refine, Reboot Glamour Photography

Rick Ferro
Course Number: 16
Level: All Levels

Join Master Photographer and a Lead photographer for the Disney Corporation in Orlando Rick Ferro to learn his approach to Glamour and Portrait photography.

He will share his method and help you create Dramatic and Stunning Images, using Gels an a assortment of Modifiers that will make your imagery Stand out.

This Class:

  • Learn how to Balance OCF {off-Camera-Flash} with available light.
  • How to mix LED Lighting with Flash.
  • Studio Lighting and Posing featuring the use of an eye-lighter, HOW TO USE V-Flats, double kicker accent lighting and more
  • How to FLY the Dresses and Customs.
  • How correctly work with hand Posing and Body Language for Glamour and Fine art Portraiture
  • Learn Rick’s workflow using Skylum Luminar Neo enhancing products to give your client Magazine quality.

What should you take to class:

  • Camera – Portrait lens {70-200} if you have one.
  • 14-15 MM LENs
  • 24-105 lens

Why You Should Take This Class:

  • How to style an on-location Glamour session and Studio Portrait Session
  • How to Market your Glamour and Portrait photography $$$
  • How to get the exposure right in the Camera the first time

Meet the Instructor:

Rick Ferro

In the last forty years, Rick has impacted the photographic community by being one of the leading wedding photographers in the nation. In addition to wedding photography, his clients have included 7-UP, Sprint,  Master Card, and Mercedes Benz.

In 1993, Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida, approached Rick to create for Disney a wedding photography department. Rick became the Senior Wedding Photographer for Disney and trained their photographers. Rick was a photographer for ABC’s “Weddings of a Lifetime” and the “Regis & Kathie Lee Show”. Rick currently has photographed “Weddings of a Lifetime” for Disney’s “Free Form” channel.

Rick has owned and operated over five photography studios and operated a photography concession for an international cruise line for three years.

In 1999 Rick wrote his first book, “Creative Techniques For Lighting and Posing”, published by Amherst Media. Since then, Rick has had over eight books published in multiple languages.

Because of Rick’s experience as a photographer, author and teacher, he is asked to speak at professional guilds, conferences and conventions and has taught in the United States, Canada and internationally in the UK, Scotland, and Ireland. Rick currently shares his insights and techniques on social media.

Rick is a Lifetime Member of WPPI, Wedding & Portrait Photographers International, and is a member of PPA, Professional Photographers of America. Rick has an Associate of Science Degree and is a WPPI Master Photographer. Rick has received his PPA Master