Two Great Programs about Family Photography and Portrait Sales
Kathryn Costello
Kathryn has been a professional photographer for 25 years with a concentration in moving dance, editorial portraits and branding. She works in her studio in Groton, MA and on location near and far to help people express who they are through portraits.
She started in the darkroom and maintains a classical approach to photography in her technique. Kathryn is a lifelong explorer of light, driven by an obsessive passion that continually shapes her work and vision.
She feels that, while lighting and composition are foundational, it is expression that give portraits life. She loves engaging with people one-on-one and drawing out natural expressions. That can be a change in micro expression from a passing thought in a headshot to a dancer mid-air at full extension.
A common theme that runs through her work is Time and how we perceive it—a dancer whose motion is frozen in a split second capturing what is not perceptible to the naked eye.
Before she discovered her love of capturing dance, she was a skating photographer. She is still a regular photographer with the Scott Hamilton Cares Foundation. She exhibits her work in the Boston Area.
Saturday, Feb 28th 3:30pm
About Time: Dance, creative portraits and using Time in the creative process
Kathryn will share her techniques for studio lighting and modifiers. How to use sculpting light to highlight dancer’s physique using between one and three lights. She will share her shooting techniques for live performances, particularly, how to freeze motion in low-light situations. She’ll cover techniques ranging from fraction of a second to long exposures, including Flash Duration, Flash Sync, and creative methods like light painting.
She will walk through her process of working with dance clients—the initial phone call, how to prepare them, through to the final sale. She’ll highlight valuable lessons she’s learned in the business of photography and the rewards and vulnerabilities she’s experienced turning her passion into a business.
Kathryn will briefly discuss using Time in her personal project of capturing the night sky through both digital and film using long exposures.
She'll discuss her creative process, her workflow and her philosophy of 'keeping it real' and protecting the dignity of the person and the profession. Participants will leave with new techniques and inspirations to build into their own photography.