An exciting new workshop that will take away some of the ‘mystery’ that seems to surround studio lighting.

Studio lighting, whether it is in your own studio or on location in a client’s home, should be very, very simple. Simple for you the photographer allowing yourself time with your client, concentrating on getting the best images from the session and using your lighting skills to make the necessary adjustments without having to think about it and so lose interest in and the attention of, your client. Many images I see today, on websites and particularly in competitions seem to lack finesse, they are mostly very flat lit and unimaginative.

It would seem to me that many photographers, especially those new to the profession, tend to opt for a more rounded lighting style thus ensuring that they get acceptable, though unoriginal and bland, images for their clients.

Bowens love the fact that I still use a Bowens 400 Monolight that has been my favourite light source for more years than I care to remember and have favoured this single light source in the studio with a large soft box attached more than all others. I do have other heads and I do use the Bowens Fresnel Spot and more recently the wonderful ringlight but for most portrait sessions I rely on the beautiful simplicity of a single head and softbox. Photographers who visit our studio are often amazed when they see our studio lighting setup; they normally ask ‘where are your other lights, the hair light, the background light, the fill light?’ The answer, as always, is what you see is what we use.

With this in mind we are holding a lighting workshop, mostly aimed at photographers newer to the profession and who are wanting to use their studio lighting in a more creative manner thus offering clients a wider range of images to purchase but if you just want to brush up on your lighting skills then this is the ideal workshop for you.

The first of these workshops, limited to 5 delegates, will be held on Sunday the 18^th of October, here at Claremont and priced @ £250.00. We will have a couple of models for the day, an adult and child so you can see the various effects you can achieve using simple basic lighting and during the day we will show you all the lighting techniques you will ever need to know when shooting in the studio for both basic and creative portraits as well as posing and styling techniques.

For maximum delegate experience we limit these workshops to 5 delegates therefore ensuring maximum delegate learning. You will be shooting your own images on this workshop and the course fee is inclusive of model fees, refreshments and lunch.

The images below were all shot in our studio using the same one light and soft box.