Andrzej Dragan - The Art of Dark Portraiture - Technical Seminar

Train to Create and Wacom are inviting you to the first ever UK photography seminar of the portrait photographer Andrzej Dragan.

This is a technical seminar where Andrzej will teach the attendees his workflow and his retouch technique (Dragan Effect). He will explain his view in the art of "portraiture photography" and he will be discussing who the real creator of the portrait is.
Sign up for the seminar, if:

You are interested in retouching process. Using his work, Andrzej Dragan will demonstrate and explain step by step his retouching approach.

You want to get more information about Andrzej's retouch technique – "Dragan effect" look.

You want to gain a greater insight into the technical details of Andrzej Dragan‘s 
dark portraiture.

This will be an 8-hours technical course where Andrzej Dragan will be demonstrating his works focusing mostly on the technical aspects of it. The attendees will be taught step by step how to create an image with the "Dragan effect" themselves.

There will be an open Q&A sessions and a discussion right after the technical part of the workshop. During that time Andrzej will take time to answer any questions left!

The Artist:
The polish Andrzej Dragan , born in 1978 and PhD in quantum physics, is involved in photography since 2003.He says himself that he actually dislikes photographing, which justifies that his photo shootings never take long. What he focuses on is the digital post-process, which can take him up to a month per photo. That's where he takes his time to determine that specific something of the image that he wants to underline.By using a digital post processing method, also known as the "Dragan Effect", that resembles painting, he turns the images into one of his impressive and unique portraits. His art was rewarded several times ( Photographer of the year 2007 by "Digital Camera Magazine") and published in several magazines and books.

He worked commercially for Playstation, Xbox, Converse, Energizer, Police and more.