Advanced Studio Photography

Advanced studio photography more often than not takes lighting schemes and techniques right to the edge, just before everything falls apart. This style of lighting requires a bit of a different approach. A different way of thinking. How can you go beyond lighting for exposure and make light and shadow dance with your subject?

This is typically our last workshop of the calendar year. Throughout the year, we've practiced lighting and posing, and Advanced Studio Photography gives us an awesome opportunity to bring it all together. (Although you don't need to have attended other workshops throughout the year to join us for this one.)

We get a super pretty model, take what we've learned about studio lighting, and see how far we can push it, using the techniques and methods Walter learned when he studied fashion photography in NYC. You'll come away from this workshop with images to add to your portfolio that will be of a quality that's hard to come by. Lighting, posing, wardrobe, styling: it all has to work together. Many know how to play with the individual elements, but may not know how to blend them together into a coherent whole. Fortunately, we do, and we'll share that expertise with you so you will craft clean, strong images such as you'd find in New York City studios.

What we’ll look at:

• Lighting effects and how they relate to the human form

• How to use light and shadow to suggest, rather than expose

• How to create the thought of beauty in 3 dimensional space

• How to use planarity together with lighting techniques to create beauty

• How to use a single light to create a fascinating dance of light and shadow

 

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