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February 23rd - 24th
April 27th - 28th
June 22nd - 23rd

Time: Saturday 10am - 5pm/Sunday 10am - 4.30pm

Day 1 Starting from scratch.

• Flash or Continuous light - advantages and disadvantages.
• How a studio flash works.
• Setting up a portrait with a single light.
• Changing the quality of the light with simple accessories.
• Placing the main light. Using a simple reflector.
• Using a flash meter and setting your camera.
• Adding a second light.
• Light control accessories.
• Hair/background lights.
• Getting more depth into your portraits.
• Using a main and fill light.
• Balancing light sources with a flashmeter.
• Lighting a white background - not lighting a black one!

At each stage plenty of time will be allowed for taking your own photographs.

Day 2 The next step.

• Softboxes - stunning portraits with a small softbox.
• Positioning lights and subjects.
• The inverse square law - don't panic!
• Using larger softboxes to create lovely soft lighting.
• Hard, high contrast lighting. Mixing hard and soft light together.
• Lighting for full length. The white background, for children and contemporary portraiture.
• Camera viewpoint.
• Using a lightbank as a huge soft light, a white background and a Ringflash!

This course is supported by Hasselblad and Broncolor and Visatec equipment is used throughout but many of the techniques are the same for other makes of lighting. You will need to bring with you A film or digital camera that can be set to manual (shutter speeds and apertures) with a standard Hot Shoe or a PC connection socket. Please Note: Digital compact cameras are generally not suitable for this course and many are unable to fire.

Pictures taken on the course are for personal use. Model Release forms are available for a fee of £10 paid direct to the model on the course.

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