Resources from StudioTime

Level: Intermediate to advanced

Look at any magazine, hair shoot or ad campaign and you will see the use of stunning fashion and beauty lighting techniques.

This course is designed to teach you how to light and shoot this ever-popular style of shot.

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 pics.

Itinerary
10:00am - Camera set-up & colour temperature
How to use a flash meter
Tethering your camera using Adobe Lightrooms
Commercial Beauty Lighting set-up
Beauty close ups
1:00pm - Lunch
2:00pm - Bright High Key Fashion Lighting setups
Black and White Moody Fashion Lighting setups
Using Softboxes, Beauty dish, Grids and Gels
Double edge lighting cross lighting
Creating natural lighting with flash
Post Production techniques
5:00pm - 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.

Level: beginners to semi-pro
Do you want to make money shooting lifestyle portraits?

Learn studio flash lighting, develop your understanding of studio technique and test using a photographic model.

You will be shown the effect of soft boxes, umbrellas, snoots, beauty dish and grid sets and how to use reflectors. How to use both soft and hard lighting to change the mood and effect of a portrait. Learn what a main lights function is; and how to use fill lights, back lights and hair lights and be shown how they affect the final image.

A model will be provided for you to shoot with throughout the day, advice on directing the model and posing technique will be given.

The teaching is presented in an easy to understand and relaxed and entertaining manner. You will walk away from this workshop with the skills to develop and improve your studio and portrait technique.

Itinerary
10:30am - Introduction with Light refreshment
What equipment is needed
How to set up the studio beginners guide
Learning to use a flash meter for accurate exposure
Camera set up and custom white balance setting
Model poses and composition tips
3 effective single flash lighting plans (softbox and umbrella)
Soft Lighting
Business advice for headshot, portrait and corporate client
How to use flags and reflectors
How to light a white background
High Key Lighting + exposure technique
Full lenght lighting
Post production technique (Adobe Lightrooms and Photoshop)
1:00pm - Lunch
2:00pm - Low Key lighting
Working with shadows and mood
Hard Lighting
Using grid sets (honeycombs), umbrellas beauty dish snoots etc
Multiple Flash Lighting plans
Three point lighting
Broad and short lighting
Kickers hair lights and back lights
Using colour gels
Workflow and post production (Adobe Photoshop Lightrooms)
Business Advice
Q and A
5:00pm - Close

Level: beginners and amateurs

This practical course is designed to teach you how to use your camera in manual mode.

With this one day course, you will learn how to take full control of your camera, be able to visualize your shot and know how to capture it.

With the skills you will learn you will gain confidence and get great results.

In the morning you will be taught how to familiarise with the settings on your camera, various theories will be explained. In the afternoon you will get to put that theory into practise with shooting assignments.

Start your lifetime’s journey into photography here.

Itinerary
10:00am - Introduction with light refreshments
Camera settings
White balance
Shutter speeds
Aperture
Focus and Depth of Field
Metering
1:00pm - Lunch
Shooting assignments “put the theory into practise”
Critique
Q & A
5:00pm - Close

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.

Level: beginners to pros

Become a strobist and take control of your flash.

Learn how to get consistant exposures from this complex piece of equipment. Learn how to get great portraits using a blend of flash and ambient light, learn settings for consistant good exposures.

If you intend on shooting weddings, fashion, portraits, PR events, live music and gigs, you will need to know how to use your speed light.

Itinerary
10:00am - Speed lights and camera set up.
Shoot session 1:
- Mixing daylight and flash at our studio
1:00pm - Lunch
2:00pm - Shoot session 2:
- various locations around the studio both urban and parkland
4:00pm - Return to studio give selected images a lift with Lightrooms.
5:00pm - Close

Level: Beginner to Semi Pro

Full day course, all studio equipment and lingerie model provided by Studio Time. Learn to use a variety of lighting, posing and composition technique for varying moods and feel of lingerie/boudoir photography.

Itinerary
10:00am - Introduction with light refreshments
Camera settings
Hi key lighting
Soft lighting
Posing and using props
1:00pm - Lunch
Dark and moody low key lighting
posing and composition
Q & A
5:00pm - Close