Description
Photography Course Details
Duration: 10am – 4pm
Location: Newquay, Cornwall, 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.
If you have yet to master studio lighting, perhaps you’re struggling to get to grips with it or perhaps you’re entirely new to the genre, then this full-day 1-2-1 Beginners Studio Lighting Photography Course will help you to learn and improve your photography.
Studio photography doesn’t need to be expensive and you don’t need to own a spare room full of fancy gear to do it. We’ll talk through all the equipment we own and show the difference between all of the different modifiers we use, allowing you to decide which works best for you before purchasing any additional equipment.
This course is ideal for anybody who is looking to step into the world of studio photography and covers all the essential skills and knowledge you’ll need to progress quickly. You are also welcome to bring along a friend or family member with you as up to 2 people can attend this course at no additional cost.
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?
This is a beginners course and as such, no skills are 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.
Sarah Swan –
Thank you so much for a fantastic workshop, I got out of it everything that I had hoped I would. Excellent.
Johnathon James –
Oh my goodness how lost I was! I can’t even begin to tell you how annoying it is to not be able to achieve the images you want to. This was the situation I was in and why I signed up to the beginners lighting masterclass Paul runs. He’s a great teacher, takes the time to talk to everybody individually and ensures that you have understood exactly what he has just explained. I no longer feel lost with studio photography, I’ve been set off in the right direction and I’m not looking back.
Kerry Hughes –
My partner and I joined Paul and a small group of fellow photographers on his studio lighting workshop with the aim of improving our portrait photography. The biggest compliment I can give is that my partner and I both said on the drive home that it was totally worth the money and he could have charged 5 times what he did. It has transformed the way we think about both lighting and portraits in general. Paul knows his stuff and it’s clear he has been working every day doing this for years as he was able to solve all the challenges we threw at him effortlessly.
Phillip Jones –
I didn’t know a single thing about studio lighting when I came on the course. I left feeling confident in my abilities to do everything we’d practised on the day on my own and have since put it into practice with my own clients. Paul is an amazing teacher, fun, friendly and down to earth. Thoroughly recommended.
Jane Seymour –
Having tried my hardest to learn studio lighting from YouTube I gave up in the end confused and frustrated that I wasn’t getting the results that I was seeing other people getting on the screen. I was clearly doing something wrong but I didn’t know what that was. Paul’s introduction to studio lighting course was exactly what I needed. He showed us all exactly how he lights his studio portraits and then we recreated the setup on our own so I left confident that I was able to do this on my own and achieve the same results. Paul’s knowledge appears to be endless, I never thought I could learn so much in a single day.