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We also offer bespoke studio lighting courses in portraiture and tabletop still life. If there is anything specific you want to try – a certain lighting style, particular looks or techniques – we will help you achieve it. Bespoke courses are perfect for training your company’s employees in the basic techniques needed to shoot portraits or product shots. | ||
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Pro Lighting: Studio & Location
Marc is from Chicago and has lived in London for over 20 years. He studied photojournalism at the London College of Communications (formerly the London College of Printing) and began his career shooting news and editorial assignments.
He has contributed to many publications worldwide. His work has evolved into a mix of shooting corporate, travel and reportage for various companies and charity sector clients. Having chosen London as home, he loves the city and sees London with the enthusiastic eye of a visitor. More...
What will I learn on this course?
• Working with pro lighting equipment in studio and on location
• Using your DSLR's Speedlites to get professional lighting
• Controlling and shaping light to create the look you want
• Directing techniques to get the most from a portrait subject
• Seeing your subjects and light from a professional standpoint
Professional lighting methods produce many of the world's greatest and most inspiring images. You can achieve many of these same results in our studio or on location with lighting techniques that are easy to learn and put into practice, using our professional studio lighting equipment. In addition, we will show you how to use your DSLR's on-camera flash – your Speedlites – along with simple, compact and affordable accessories to create beautiful professional lighting. Working in a professional photography studio in southwest London, we will set up a studio shoot for you, portrait or still life. You will learn to work with monobloc flash heads and with tungsten continuous lights. We will look at various lighting techniques including: balancing two or more light sources; ways to soften or make the light harder with hard-edged shadows; and background light and keylighting the subject.
For portraits, directing your subject is as important as lighting skills – we will explore simple techniques to make people comfortable under the lights.
Designed to be a practical day with the opportunity to learn and to take home images you have shot, this course is ideal for two people who want to learn whilst making portraits of each other. Or make the portraits you have always wanted to shoot of your friends or partner. Once you know the basics of studio lighting, your ability to see your subject photographically improves as you learn to critically assess light and create it in the studio.
Cost of this course: £100
£95 if booked in conjunction with another course (or two people booking together)
Dates for this Course
Sunday 26 February 2012 • 10:00 to 15:00
Better Travel Photography was created by Steve Davey to celebrate the art of travel photography and to help people improve their travel photography skills and get more out of their travels. Some of the highlights of the site are image galleries, travel photography features and 501 Travel Photography Tips. This site also features Steve's exclusive range of travel photography tours.
A great opportunity to learn studio and location lighting techniques and make portraits using pro lighting gear and also your DSLR's Speedlites, working in a southwest London studio that has real history in the industry, used by some of the great photographers of our time.
