Pikto Workshop - an opinionated review

I recently attended a fashion workshop at Pikto, which is by far - my favourite printing house. Pikto is a cool, trendy, efficient and proficient printing outlet for professional and amateur photographers alike. I can rent a workstation, sip on some coffee and print my images in a trendy, relaxed setting that no other printing house offers... It's a model I have come to enjoy and in fact - surprised that no more people have tried to replicate.

They also have workshops... many technical and photography related workshops are offered geared on helping you become a better photographer.

I recently attended the Fashion Workshop at the end of Feb. It was a present from my best friend and a great present it was... unfortunately I found the material a little lacking. The programme was not followed and it felt short on many, many of the selling/marketing points that the workshop is based on. There was little structure to the workshop and it turned into a painful experience. The workshop was marketed to those who already shoot.. its their “pro” workshop but we found ourselves learning the basics of lighting - no “pro” material here... It wasn’t my only opinion either - had many other participants thought the same thing. It was just not well organized... I shot 17 frames... (while others literally filled their cards - to the point I had to lend a CF card out to a participant while clearing the first card on his laptop) could not contain the boredom. It was just a painful experience.

Very disappointed. In fairness - Pikto offered me a free workshop when I came to them with my views of the effort, but I politely declined. As I said before, its my favourite printing house and I din’t want to experience another disappointing workshop as that would ruin for me the rest of my printing experience. Hope it improves in the future.