Portrait Window Light

One window on Ben Yehuda · Noa Ben-Ami

A face beside glass

The portrait room at Lens Room has a tall window on the street side and a white reflector on a stand. That is the set. Noa Ben-Ami will not hang a paper roll or a ring light. The work is to see what the window already does to a cheek, a shoulder, a pair of glasses.

You photograph classmates and, twice in the six weeks, a guest who has agreed to sit for an hour. You also sit. People photograph more carefully after they have been the person in the chair.

This is still a school, not a studio booking. The room belongs to the enrolled group. If you need lights for a client, Ben Yehuda has other doors — not this one.

Window-light portrait session with instructor and sitter
Window-lit portrait study of an older sitter

The six sessions

  1. The empty chair — where the sitter sits relative to the frame of the window, and why a few degrees matter.
  2. Reflector in, reflector out — the shadow you keep on purpose.
  3. Hands and shoulders — portraits that are not only faces, still using the same window.
  4. First guest sitter — short sessions, notes on paper, no crowd around the chair.
  5. Clouds and late light — what to do when the boulevard goes warm and the glass changes.
  6. A look at the work — prints or files, what is a portrait and what is only a likeness.

Class size stays small so the sitter is not performing. Phones stay in bags while someone is in the chair unless Noa asks for a test frame on a screen.

Instructor

Noa Ben-Ami

Noa Ben-Ami talks in short notes: chin, shoulder, the edge of the window. She would rather you make four frames with attention than forty with hope. Bring the camera you know. A fast lens helps at the end of the day but is not a requirement.

Tell the desk if you prefer not to sit for classmates; we can usually arrange a different role, though the course is built around that rotation.

Ask for a place

Desk: Sun–Thu 09:00–18:00, Fri 09:00–13:00, Saturday closed, October 2026. GET form to thanks.html.

Ben Yehuda 142, Tel Aviv-Yafo · 03-544-8090 · desk@lensroom.pro

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