Description
Photography Course Details
Duration: Full Day, 10am – 5pm
Location: Your Venue Or A Professional Photography Studio In London, UK
Date: This is a 1-2-1 course, book a date that suits you.
No. Participants: Up to two people can attend this course at no additional cost.
Learning how to use studio lighting in your photography really steps up the quality of the images as you control the lighting to create the look and feel you desire. Whether you want bright and clean lighting for product photography or a more dramatic lighting for a moody portrait, when you start introducing your own light to your images in a creative way you open up a world of possibilities.
Paul has taught some of the worlds largest companies how to light their own photographs and will teach you the tricks of the trade in either at your location or in a professional photography studio in London. You’ll learn everything you need to know to start adding external lighting to your own photographs including the best settings to use in the camera, the different types of modifiers and how to choose the correct power for your lights. You’ll also learn many set lighting patterns that the professionals use to quickly and efficiently light any photograph giving high quality results.
If you haven’t yet purchased any lighting equipment then Paul is happy to make recommendations during the course and you’ll have the chance to try many different types of lights and modifiers so you’ll be able to be sure that when you do buy your equipment, you buying it right first time. This one day course in London is designed to give you the all the skills and knowledge you need to progress with your studio lighting photography and start taking images you’ll be proud of.
Things You Will Learn On This Workshop:
- What different lighting modifiers do and how and when we use them.
- The different qualities of light. Hard v Soft light.
- Where to place your lights, how far away from the subject they should be and how this impacts your images.
- The falloff of light and how to change background colours using only light.
- The 5 most used lighting patterns used by photographers to sculpt the face.
- How to setup your lights and trigger them wirelessly.
FAQ’s
Do I Need Certain Skills Or Equipment To Attend?
There are no existing skills required to attend this course. The only equipment you will need to bring with you is your camera and lenses.
Can You Recommend Camera Equipment For Me Prior To Me Attending?
I get a lot of requests for help with camera equipment recommendations, almost daily in fact and offer a Personalised Photography Equipment Recommendation service which you can find by clicking here.
Recommending a camera and the best lenses to buy really has lots of different factors involved in it which need to be investigated first such as what the equipment will be most used for, budgets, your expectations on image quality, your current level and aspirations, etc. Hence the above service so we can really drill down into finding you the best equipment.
Alternatively, some people attend my courses and borrow a camera from me for the day to do so, we can then incorporate this recommendation as part of the course at no extra cost. The benefit of doing it this way is that I have a lot of cameras and lenses you can try and see the difference between prior to purchasing anything. The downside is your not learning on your own equipment of course, so there are pluses and minuses to doing it both ways, it depends on what you think works best for you.
What Is The Refund Policy?
Our Refund & Cancellation Policy Can Be Found Here.
Jason Bradley –
I had an excellent course with Paul learning how to use studio lighting, we went through how to setup the camera to work best with studio lights and then spent a good proportion of the day learning how to create lighting patterns, balance exposures and work with shadows and highlights. I was really very impressed with the whole course as Paul explained it in a way that all seemed so simple. I’d tried to learn all of this on my own through books and videos and it just wouldn’t click. Paul’s unique ability is to explain things in such a simple to understand way, it all just seemed like common sense in the way he broke it all down. It was great, thanks so much!