Learn to make portrait photos like a professional and get unexpected and lively images. Apply this skill to your everyday life when photographing anyone, literally. Make self-portraits to understand your own motivation and set the right goals.
Highlights
• Personal or small groups
• WhatsApp, Zoom
• 2 calls with theory and feedback
• Self-practice with editing
• From 200 euro/person, discounts for groups
• Starts today
Overview
Panoramica portrait photography course is a three-step life-improving experience with Irina Kudres, a photographer with 10+ years of creative and professional experience.
It’s simple: portrait photography is the engine of communication between people with the help of a camera. This is how connection, dialogue, cooperation and friendship are born. Therefore, learning to make portrait photos (and get great results) is a skill necessary for everyone, not just professional photographers. But they are the best at it and ready to share their experience with you. That’s what this course is all about. What makes this different from others is that the author doesn’t try to tweak personal methods of portrait-making to fit everyday life, but leaves the genre in its purest form to capture its beauty. In other words, you will really learn how to do it as an experienced photographer. Applying this skill to your everyday life when talking with anyone is your task.
The course is aimed at and will be useful to aspire photographers, photojournalists, creators of various content and anyone who likes to make photos of people — and above all, explore themselves through photography.
Your portraits are really beautiful. I would like to be in the heroes’ place.
— Ivan Kuznetsov, journalist, Italy
Author
Irina Kudres is a photographer, photojournalist and visual storyteller. She is also a co-founder of Panoramica creative studio in the Italian Alps.
Portrait is Irina’s main creative direction together with documentary and event photography. She is an author of two projects and more than 20 photo stories in total, which can be found on her site Ikudres.com, as well as on her Instagram and Substack. She was published in PhotoVogue, Velolive.com, the Finnish DOCU magazine special issue, Peakvisor outdoor app site, L’Eco di Bergamo (Echo of Bergamo) newspaper and other international and local media.
She is an author of two portrait photo projects based, including “Woman and craft” and “Another odyssey“, as well as more than 30 portraits of other heroes, which can be found in her other sessions made in documentary and reportage genres.
Pricing
One person: 200 euro
Two persons: 360 euro (with 20 euro or 10% discount for each)
Three persons: 480 euro (with 40 euro or 15% discount for each)
If you are four and more persons, ask about additional discounts.
Contents
The course consists of three simple steps: Theory, Practice and Feedback.
Step 1: Entertaining theory
We will call for 1.5 hours in WhatsApp, Zoom or other similar web service. You’ll get an overview of making a portrait photography through 10 simple steps, each of which is equally important: from choosing a topic and finding a hero to publishing and working with audience’s feedback. In the last 30 minutes of the call, you will ask questions.
Before. Select the publication and format
1 Find the subject and theme
2 Arrange the photo shoot
3 Research the subject and theme
4 Come up with a storyline
5 Make the photo shoot
6 Achieve the desired result
7 Edit the photos
8 Format the story into a gallery
9 Publish the photos
10 Get feedback
After. Befriend the hero
Step 2: Challenging practice
You’ll find a hero and a topic, and come up with the storyline. We’ll edit it in two or three rounds and make the final version. You’ll also get tips on where to publish your story if you don’t have your own blog (publication is not guaranteed, but we’ll try our best to make it happen).
Step 3. Honest feedback
At the end we will call again for 30 minutes. You will ask questions about making a portrait photos as a whole, including your new experience. You will receive final feedback from the author of the course. The bigger idea is communication, mentoring and maybe even a new friendship.
Portraits
Go to Irina’s portfolio to get an overview of her photographic and overall creative style, photo editing and general presentation of her work. Visit her Instagram and Substack to see how she shares her work and how her audience responds to it.
Reviews
You will be one of the first persons to take this course. A little later here will be reviews from students, but for now, I’ve collected some feedback from some heroes of my portrait photo shoots, which I’ve made:
My portraits are gorgeous. I like it”.
— Cristina Malvestiti, painter and artist, Bergamo, Italy
Thank you so much. I’ve already looked at the photos, and they’re beautiful”.
— Francesca Pontieri, pastry chief, Bar Pasticceria Chechè, Bologna
The pictures are amazing. I like the light! Great work!
— Cláudia Alexandrino, illustrator and visual designer, Milan, Italy
The photos turned out very beautiful. It was a pleasure working with you.
— Liubov Bochkova, painter and ceramic artist, Milan, Italy
What a beauty! Very cool photos.
— Alina Musiienko, language teacher, Bergamo, Italy
All course data
• Title: Panoramica portrait photography course. A three-step life-improving experience
• Author: Irina Kudres
• Publisher: Panoramica
• Date of first publication: December, 2025
• Language: English
• Format: personal or small group in WhatsApp or Zoom
• Duration: about a week, including 2 calls with theory and feedback (2 hours in total) + self-practice with three rounds of editing
• Start date: today
• Cost: 200 euro/person, discounts for groups
• Result: your first or a new interview published on your blog or podcast, or external media
• Gift: one of Panoramica’s ebooks of your choice
Impact
By taking this course you are not only learning to ask questions like a professional journalist but becoming a part of Panoramica creative studio, a friend and a family member, as we say in Italy. Making this course possible we are helping to development of sustainable tourism in the Italian Alps and building a bridge between it and your place. This leads to positive changes both on a trail of your life and the life of a local communities.
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