Photo school in Lisbon. Learning photography

If you want to improve your photography skills, learn professional editing techniques, or confidently run your photo business, you’re in the right place. I’ve prepared several training programs tailored to your experience, goals, and personal interests, ensuring you’ll get exactly the knowledge and practical skills you need.

Personal photo training in Lisbon

I’m currently based in Lisbon—a fantastic city for photography and personal growth. With individual training, you’ll get focused attention tailored to your exact needs, practical guidance during real photo shoots, and the opportunity to join me on an actual client session. This personalized approach ensures you’ll quickly improve your skills and gain confidence as a professional photographer.

If you’re already in Lisbon — even better. We can meet in person, discuss your goals, and plan your training face-to-face.

Distance learning

Thanks to the Internet, we can work with you remotely. ZOOM or any other application that allows you to make a video call from your computer is suitable for photo study. Of course, there will be no joint practice, but you and I will be in comfortable conditions.

Training program

You choose for yourself the topics for the training. Each personal program will be based on your experience and request that we will discuss in advance.

Here are some topics that may be of interest to you:

• Technical details of shots
• Composition and psychology of the shot
• Portfolio review
• Analysis and recommendations on your equipment
• Organization of the shooting process
• Color correction
• Deep photo retouching
• Psychology of shooting

Photo Business: Marketing, Promotion and Sales classes

• Creating a photo business or photo school
• Specificities of creating exactly photo business
• Composing a selling portfolio
• Competent representation of yourself in the social networks and via the website
• Promoting yourself on the Internet
• Selling yourself as a professional to the client (Communication during negotiations)

In training you:

• learn how to effectively sell your services online;
• determine the desired cost of the photo shoot and reach this price tag;
• learn how to present yourself easily and expensively;
• get an adequate assessment of your portfolio from a professional photographer;
• create a portfolio that will sell your services quickly and easily;
• learn how to communicate with customers on the phone, via messengers and live;
• learn to justify your price to customers;
• understand how to sell more services by forming a package;
• learn how to liberate customers for shooting;
• understand how is best to give customers completed work;

Photography Practice

If you are in Lisbon or around, we have the opportunity to hold personal meetings and workshops. There are 3 possible options:

• Non-profit shooting organized specifically for practice.
• Your commercial shoot, where I'm assistant
• My commercial shoot, where you are the second photographer and assistant

Each of these options has its pros and cons. Many beginners prefer the last option. Like, live real people and no hypocrisy. But based on experience, the best option is the second one, which will give you much more. Anyway, let's dig deeper.

Practical training photo shoot

We find a model (can be any person), to demonstrate in practice all possible techniques, errors, difficulties and fixes for them. During the shooting, I am with you and with the model, constantly monitoring and commenting for you and for the model on all the details.

• How and why it is better to make a certain shot
• What should be taken in the frame, and what should not? Compositional technique.
• Which posture is better for a model, and which is not?
• Camera settings, use of optics
• Psychological techniques for the liberation of the client

Your teacher is your assistant

If you have a commercial shoot, you can take me as your assistant. I'm ready to carry the bag, change the lenses and do all of the "hard" work. But also at this time, will perform the functions of director and organizer. Although I will not do the shooting directly on my camera, I'll comment on the current situation and offer you on how is best to proceed, and most importantly, I will explain why. In my opinion, this is the most important thing in learning – to understand the logic of thoughts and the principles of making certain decisions.

Your assistance on my commercial shoot

This option is not very profitable for training. In this kind of shooting the main thing for me is the client and his comfort, mood, etc. In 95% of cases, I will not be able to explain you certain actions and decisions. You will see only the result of my ideas and thoughts. And the way I communicate with a real client.