Advanced Fashion and Beauty Lighting

Look at any magazine, hair shoot or ad campaign and you will see the use of stunning fashion and beauty photography lighting techniques.
This course is designed to teach you how to light and shoot this ever-popular style of shot. The lighting plans this course covers ranges from bright vivid images to dark and moody to cover most flavors of fashion photography lighting.

This is an intense one day course with the emphasis on learning by doing (we don’t just lecture you), so all students are expected to work as a team to help set up lighting. Don’t worry about making mistakes you’ll be under the guidance of our tutor.

Photography Course Overview:
Camera set-up colour temperature why you get a colour cast and how to white balance with a grey card.
You will be shown is how to take light readings to get the optimum exposures for your photographs.
Learn how to work tethered into Adobe Photoshop Lightrooms

Commercial Beauty Lighting setup
Beauty Close ups
Bright High Key Fashion Lighting setups
Black and White Moody Fashion Lighting setups
Using Softboxes, Beauty dish, Grid sets and Gels.
Double Edge Lighting
Cross Lighting
Post Producitons techniques

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.

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.

A good understanding of how to use your camera in manual mode is essential for this course, as well as a basic knowledge of exposure. If you need to learn how to use your digital camera please see detail about digital camera training.

Who is this course for?
The course is aimed at advanced amateurs to semi pro photographers, with the emphasis on practical hand’s on training. You must be able to use a light meter (for flash) and know how to set up your camera for studio work. If you are not familiar in these areas we suggest you take the Introductory fashion and portrait lighting course in advance of coming on to this course.