One day workshop all studio equipment & model provided.
Look at any magazine, hair shoot or ad campaign and you will see the use of stunning fashion and beauty lighting techniques.
This workshop is designed to teach you how to light and shoot this ever-popular style of shot and equip you with the knowledge on how to photograph a look-book, fashion catalogue, hair shoot and beauty campaign. Retouching working with clients, how to pose the model and composition is all covered. A professional model is provided for this workshop.
The lighting plans covered range from beauty shots to high key vivid images to dark moody black and whites. This is an intense one-day lighting workshop, all students are expected to work as a team to help set up lighting as well as shoot, all under the guidance of our highly experienced tutor.
Have a great day at the studio and shoot some cool photos for your portfolio.
Itinerary
| 10:30am - | Camera set-up & colour temperature calibration |
| How to use and why we use a flash meter | |
| Tethering your camera to the computer using Adobe Lightrooms | |
| Commercial Beauty Lighting set-up with advice on make up | |
| Beauty lighting variations and using multi lighting set ups | |
| 1:00pm - | Lunch |
| 2:00pm - | Using Bright High Key Fashion Lighting techniques |
| 3 point lighting for dark clothing against dark backdrop | |
| Double edge contour lighting technique | |
| Black and White Moody Fashion Lighting setups | |
| Using Soft-boxes, Beauty dish, Grids and Gels | |
| How to create natural lighting with flash | |
| Post Production techniques | |
| 5:30pm - | Close |
The teaching is presented in an easy to understand and relaxed and entertaining manner. You will walk away from this course with the skill to develop and improve your studio technique.
All lighting is created using studio flash.
Read a review of the fashion photography workshop by a former student.
Camera Requirements:
You will need an SLR camera to part take in this course, arrangements can be made to hire cameras if you don’t own one, please ask when booking. If you have a Compact, Hybrid or Bridge camera you can still take part in this course, however your camera will not have all the functions available to SLR owners, we guarantee to show how to get fantastic pictures with all types of cameras.
Sony Alpha Users
Please bring along a hot shoe adaptor to connect your cameras to the studio flash sync cable, or bring along a Sony flash gun that has manual control. All other manufactures cameras do not need this.
Lens Choice
You will need a lens that will allow you to crop to head and shoulders, we recommend a lens in the focal length of 70-200mm for this. You will also be capturing half length and full length poses for this you would need a 24-70mm (Full frame) or 18-55mm (APS size) lens.
Additional Equipment
If you have a flash meter, wireless flash triggering system or speed light flash gun please bring these along with you. We can set up your speed light to trigger the studio lights.
The next advanced lighting course is taking place this Saturday 20th Feb 2010, can you make it?
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