Setting the Scene
4 WEEK Small Group Workshop
WORKSHOP LESSONS WEEK BY WEEK
Week One
Location-Driven Stories
Learn how to analyze locations for narrative potential and compositional opportunity. Study psychological principles, explore lighting and mood, and begin to recognize how the very essence of a location can become your creative driving force.
Week Two
The Time Inspired Frame
Explore the layers of time within your locations. Uncover historical contexts and cinematic techniques that add a temporal dimension to your photographs, and discover compositional techniques that help you bridge eras, blending past and present in a single frame.
Week Three
Atmospheric Editing
Learn how contextual color grading can evoke specific moods and atmospheres that are relevant to the story you’re telling. Develop a more intuitive editing process that prioritizes emotional resonance and narrative depth over visual consistency.
Week Four
Disruptive Frames
Challenge conventional storytelling with advanced techniques and new concepts, including visual mismatches, anemoia, and subliminal compositions that that invite viewers to look closer.
Thank you ever so much for your kind words CG. I love your unique approach to capturing the world around you and am so very excited to continue to follow along with you on your photography journey.
Robin,
Learning from you and the way you delivered the weeks contents and back every step up with an inspiring well thought out video was truly inspiring.
I totally loved everything about your course.
You eloquently descriptive explanation of everyone’s assignments full of motivating advice was just pure poetry.
I would recommend this course to everyone!
CG
Nicole, thank you so very much for your kind words. It was such a pleasure to learn alongside you. You possess a wonderful ability to identify locations that can be used to communicate compelling narratives full of meaning and symbolism. I cannot wait to see what you create next!
What a privilege it was to learn from Robin in her “Setting the Scene” course! I have long admired Robin’s distinctive and compelling photography, so I jumped at the opportunity to take a full participation workshop with her. Robin is so intentional and thoughtful with her written PDFs, including instructional materials and weekly exercises, and she is such a delight to chat with during the weekly Zoom calls. One of my favorite parts of this workshop was watching the videos where Robin breaks down her own images and walks you through her in-depth thought process, including planning, trouble-shooting, executing and editing. She lays out the many layers and considerations to create an intriguing and mesmerizing photo in a such a clear way. Her assignment critiques are insightful and comprehensive, aimed at helping you work through the many elements that go into achieving a captivating photo. Prior to this workshop, I had seen interesting locations that I knew had potential but never knew quite what to do with them….this course was exactly what I needed to give me the tools I was lacking to create meaningful and authentic images that highlight the location and bring it to the forefront rather than being an afterthought. I’ve taken many courses through Click Photo School and this is most definitely one of the top workshops I have ever taken. I truly approach my photography in a new way after learning from Robin! I cannot recommend this course enough; it will most definitely give you a fresh and unique lens through which to approach the scene in front of you.
Alex, it was an honour to learn alongside you during this workshop. Thank you truly for your participation and your kind words. Your assignments knocked my socks off every single week. Excited to continue following along with you!
Thank you, Nina, for your incredibly kind words. It was an absolute joy to have you in this class. Thrilled for you and your acceptance – it is surely the first of many wonderful accolades coming your way!
This class changed the way I look at the world around me. While taking Setting the Scene, I started to notice shapes, colors, potential reflections, and framing in areas I’ve never appreciated as possible locations. Robin’s videos and PDF’s were incredibly clear and well-thought out and the print-out worksheets were the ideal checklist for “why” and “how” to best use a location. The repetition of what worked in each of her examples every week solidified the importance of these factors until I felt like she was in my head pointing things out not just as I was out scouting, but also on the vacation I took during the class.
Loved the Zooms too…so nice to get to meet the instructor and the other participants “in person.”
How much do I recommend this class to EVERYONE? I got 3 images from the homework accepted into a juried show the last week of the class. That’s proof enough that Setting the Scene is a game changer.
Setting the Scene was such an impactful workshop for me. As someone who normally creates their own environment, this course truly helped to open my eyes to the beauty in the mundane and often times overlooked spaces that surround us in our everyday lives. This has been one of, if not, my favorite workshops here at Click Photo School. Throughout the workshop I found myself jotting down location after location that I want to explore. And these are locations I *never* would have considered before. Robin’s detailed and thoughtful critiques each week were extremely informative and helpful. She saw things in my work that I didn’t even realize myself. Robin was also very thoughtful in driving the point of staying true to your unique voice while also utilizing the information in the materials. I would 12/10 recommend this workshop to everyone! Thank you for such a wonderful course Robin!