Description
Single light
No photographer starts out an expert in the studio. Like everything else, studio lighting is a learned craft. This workshop aims to teach you the core lighting techniques and principles that should be in every studio photographer’s repertoire. Each point is discussed in simple no-nonsense terms with real life lighting demonstrations before your very eyes. You’ll come away equipped with the how, what, when and why to give you increased understanding, confidence and enjoyment in every situation.
Like so many other’s, I didn’t always love the studio. I had to learn just like everyone else. Now, I absolutely love the studio for the control it gives me over lighting and environments. In this workshop, I wish to come full circle and share some of my knowledge and love of studio lighting with you. I want you to leave with newfound confidence and understanding of what is possible in the studio.
The following lighting styles, patterns and terminology will be discussed and demonstrated with a real model in a real life studio environment. You’ll get to shoot many of the styles yourself with your own camera. We’ll start each demonstration very simply with a single light source, and explore and discuss what each individual light or lighting style can achieve on its own. What are the strengths and what are the shortcomings of each light and each style? How can we modify or improve them? We’ll then build the complexity, the knowledge and understanding as we progress throughout the workshop.
Lighting terms discussed and demonstrated:
One light plus reflector
- Split lighting.
- Rembrandt lighting.
- Butterfly (Paramount) lighting.
- Loop lighting.
- Broad lighting.
- Short lighting.
- Key light.
- Fill light.
- Backlight.
- Rim light.
- Hair light.
- Beauty dishes.
- Flat light.
- Soft light.
- Harsh light.
- Diffuse light
- Directional light
- 3 point lighting.
- Reflectors, flags and cutters.
Other subjects discussed or touched on along the way:
Two lights plus reflector
- Modelling lights
- Triggering the flash (Sync cables and wireless)
- Flash duration
- Controlling lens flare with hoods and flags
- Metering for electronic flash
- Operating a flash meter
- Flash and shutter synchronisation speeds
- Metering and using ambient light and flash together
- Controlling contrast and light fall off and the inverse square law
- Feathering light with a bare reflector
- Using flags to soften edges and sculpt light
- Using diffusion materials
- Bounce lighting
- Umbrellas
- Soft boxes
- Altering the size of the light and its effect on contrast
- Feathering a diffused light source controlling contrast with reflectors
- Choosing a reflector surface: white, silver or coloured reflectors
- Establishing a basic lighting ratio with a single reflector
Important times, details, and address:
Brett Dorron – Two lights
- Workshop: Creative Studio Portrait Lighting Workshop – 25 Nov 2018
- Presenters: Brett Dorron
- When: Thur 24 Jan 2019, 7pm-9.30pm (2.5hrs)
- Where: Legend Studio Melbourne – 1/95 Heyington Avenue Thomastown. Just off the ring road. Grab the Freeway. Plenty of parking on street and on site.
- Fitness: Not applicable. Venue has wheelchair access.
- Price: Early Bird $60 till 20th Jan – RRP $80.
- What to bring: Camera with a hotshoe, standard to telephoto lens, batteries, memory cards and yourself.
I would love to see you there. Thank you,
Brett Dorron
www.brettdorron.com
ausphotoacademy.com.au
www.legend.studio
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