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Martinsville
How to Capture the Attention of Dogs & Cats While Lighting the Animal's Fur
Course #VA01
$120 (Register in-person, space permitting. Contact instructor.)
With Ricky Dawson, Cr.Photog., CPP
You may think children are challenging subjects, but what about pets? How do you photograph dogs or cats and capture their attention – all while in a strange setting?
In this class, you'll learn all the tricks of photographing furry friends! You'll cover:
- Getting the light source from window, camera strobes and studio lighting to capture action
- How to use your lighting to portray the texture and colors of fur
- Why remote control activation of your equipment helps the shoot go smoothly
- Learn various ways to grab the pet's attention through noise, treats and toys
Pets are a part of the family so it makes sense that some of your clients will be cuddly and cute, big and bumbling or sweet and slobbery. Take this workshop and learn how to make pet photography another facet of your business!
Course Date: May 13, 2013
Course Hours: 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Items to Bring: tripods, camera remote activation, battery chargers for cameras, patience!
Location:
SPCA of Martinsville and Henry County
132 Joseph Martin Highway
Martinsville, VA 24112
276-638-PAWS
Instructor Contact:
Rickydawson1@comcast.net
276-224-2726
Instructor Website:
www.dawson-photography.com
Richmond
Course #VA02
$120 (Register in-person, space permitting. Contact instructor.)
With Stephanie Adams, M.Photog., CPP
Photography is all about light - knowing how to create the right studio lighting helps you create better images and happier clients. This course is a beginning/intermediate lighting class in which Instructor Stephanie breaks down the principles so you become a better photographer.
You'll learn:
- How to use a light meter to speed up your process and get the exact lighting you need.
- Basis lighting principles and light characteristics
- Lighting tools at your disposal and how to best use them
- Studio set up and metering
Additionally, Stephanie will handle student questions about lighting experiences so what you learn hits home with what you do every day!
Course Date: May 13, 2013
Course Hours: 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Items to Bring: camera, lens, media card, note-taking materials
Location:
Stephanie's Portrait Design
101 Buford Road
Richmond, VA 23235
435-590-5992
Instructor Contact:
Stephanie@stephaniesportraitdesign.com
804-477-6617
Instructor Website:
www.stephaniesportraitdesign.com
Lake Ridge
Lifestyle Photography: Find Existing Light to Achieve Studio-Perfect Portraits
Course #VA03
$120 (Register in-person, space permitting. Contact instructor.)
With Philip Brasch
Spring is the perfect season to promote your outdoor environmental portraiture or lifestyle photography. With the right lens and technique, you can render gorgeously lit subjects with backgrounds that resemble fine art paintings. Whether you are a photographer for passion or profit, this Super Monday course will teach you innovative and portable techniques for capturing stunning natural light and breath-taking composition in any situation.
Join Philip to learn elements of lighting, the creation of emotion, and composition:
- Understand, control, and plan the use of existing light in an outdoor environment.
- Analyze your environment to position your subject and/or yourself to create a naturally lit candid image.
- Pose clients naturally using simple cues calculated to maximize the use of existing light.
- Use multiple techniques in the field to ensure accurate color, skin-tone, and exposure in-the-camera.
- Use "short-light" consistently in outdoor, existing light settings to create drama, depth, and dimension.
- Create beautiful, modern, lifestyle portraits without a studio, expensive strobes, or soft boxes.
- You will be able to determine if flash is truly necessary and use it gently indoors or out (bare bulb, off-camera flash, manual, or TTL).
- What is "fill light", determine if you have enough, and options to add it.
- Execute the perfect Lifestyle Portrait using: directional existing light, warmth, separation from background, catch lights, hair light, dark ear towards camera "short light", background clean and soft, open shadows, and rim light.
- End with dusk, night & low-light portrait photography with video lights, and on/off-camera flash.
Why learn better lighting? Our potential clients can easily purchase the same pro cameras that we use - and they do! Set yourself and your people photography apart with one thing that they can't buy - lighting technique! In Philip Brasch's Super Monday "Lifestyle Photography: Find Existing Light to Achieve Studio-Perfect Portraits" you will do just that and maximize your use of available / existing light and your environment for Engagement Sessions, Weddings, Seniors, Children, and more. You can begin to create sellable images that emanate light and emotion! Your client will have a hard time not purchasing more than one.
What is Lifestyle Photography? After adopting this phrase over 5 years ago to describe his unique environmental work, Philip defines it as the action of photojournalism combined with the beauty and consistency of portrait lighting.
We will start the course with a classroom lecture (PowerPoint presentation, slide shows, and an invaluable tip-sheet handout). Then you will be ready to take it outside for hands-on practice experimenting with "finding the light", using multiple lighting options, posing a model, and getting instructor feedback in the field! In this Super Monday, learn to achieve studio lighting without the studio!
Class will start at 1:00 and run through the "sweet hour" of sunset. This is going to be a unique opportunity to LEARN HOW to achieve those FABULOUS outdoor portraits and dramatic sunset images that clients LOVE to BUY!
Course Date: May 19, 2013
Course Hours: 1:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
Items to Bring
Equipment: Digital SLR, a flash if you have one, at least one lens.
Optional equipment: tripod, monopod, grey card or white balance target, Quantum FreeXWire transceiver, wide-angle zoom f/2.8, mid-range zoom f/2.8, a fast 50mm or 85mm at f/1.4, 70-200mm f/2.8 zoom telephoto, laptop w/Adobe Lightroom 3.6 or 4
Location:
Westminster At Lake Ridge
12191 Clipper Drive
Lake Ridge, VA 22192
703-496-3400
Instructor Contact:
pbrasch@comcast.net
703-551-0253
Learn more about this class!
Instructor Website:
www.gallery252.com
