On Saturday, I attended a workshop called "Photographing Real People", conducted by Greg Perry, at the London Photographic Studio in Rockingham.

I was one of 8 students, and Greg spent a few hours talking us through various ways to pose individuals, couples, and groups, and how to interact with the subjects while you're taking photos of them. He threw in plenty of useful tips, tricks and techniques, ranging from lighting suggestions, clothing guidelines for subjects, through to some information on post-processing.

We also had the opportunity to put a lot of it into practice immediately, by taking some shots of three models in a studio environment, with Greg providing assistance and commentary.

While the opportunity to shoot the models was certainly useful, I believe the value was in the large amounts of practical information shared by Greg during the afternoon.
At a cost of $77 for 3 hours, I reckon it was very good value.

Here's some of my photos from yesterday afternoon:

Geoff

Amy

David and Amy

David

London Photographic Studio advertise workshops on their website, and the "Photographing Real People" workshop was also advertised on flickr and redbubble.