Photographic Lighting Workshop

General Course Information:

Our lighting workshop is a fast paced 1 day workshop filled with some lecture and lots of hands-on demonstrations of photographic lighting for both professional and home studios. Students will have the opportunity to "be the photographer" by setting up and adjusting the positions of the lights as well as taking photographs during the demonstrations. Although this is a lighting workshop, we often use a model, student or mannequin as the subject during the hands-on demonstrations. Due to time restraints most of the hands-on demonstrations will be photographed with one of the studio's camera but time permitting (and it often does) students will have the opportunity to use their own cameras for some of the demonstrations.

Students who would like to use their camera during the demonstrations should bring a camera, lens (preferably with a focal length less than 135mm, an 18mm - 55mm and 24mm - 120mm and similar focal lengths are good choices). The lens may be a zoom or fixed focal length with any maximum aperture. Students who will be using a minolta, Konica or Sony camera with a "reverse hot shoe" should bring a hot shoe adapter if they have one. Students who wish to bring a model MUST contact us for permission at least 3 days prior to the workshop. Due to space and time limitations, NOT all models will be accepted or permitted to attend the workshop and will have to leave.

Although we will cover the details of lighting, we also keep this workshop relatively non-technical. We will use studio strobes for most of the demonstrations to save time but we will explain how you can substitute camera flashes or continuous lights (hot lights) for studio strobes.

Course Topics Include:

How to us flashes or continuous lights instead of studio strobes.

Benefits and drawbacks to using Flashes, studio strobes and continuous lights.

Using lighting diagrams.

Using a single strobe, flash or continuous lighting unit.

Multiple strobes flash or continuous lighting units.

Flat (Even lighting) vs. Ratio (Uneven) lighting.

"Beauty" lighting.

Hard and soft lighting.

Using soft boxes, umbrellas, reflectors, snoots and other equipment.

Eliminating shadows and embracing shadows, when are shadows good and when are they bad.

Directional vs. non-directional lighting.

Do I need to use manual focus or manual exposure? We will answer this question...if you cannot wait the answer is: with the right equipment no you don't.

More.

Course Requirements:

There are no requirements for attending this workshop but please read the following.

Interchangeable lens camera (dSLR or Mirrorless camera) with manual exposure mode and a lens for the hands-on demonstrations will be helpful.

Pen & paper to take notes.

The following items are NOT required but can be helpful:

Experience with lighting and lighting equipment is not needed but any experience may be helpful.

A printed manual for your camera - if you have one please bring it.

Dress comfortably, we will be moving around, sitting, and standing.

A sense of humor makes the classes more fun.

Upcoming Schedule and Location:

Location

ProCam
1014 Ohio Pike Cincinnati,
OH 45245
(513) 943-9000
Map and Directions

Cost: $99.00

Schedule:

10:30a.m. to 5:00p.m.

Registration:

To register for the Photographic Lighting Workshop, please use ProCam Events web-page by clicking here.
If you experience difficulties with the event registration please contact ProCam Cincinnati:

PROCAM Cincinnati Cincinnati
1014 Ohio Pike, Cincinnati, OH 45245
(513) 943-9000
Cincinnati@ProCam.com - general emails
Lee@ProCam.com - Events Manager for Cincinnati

Store Hours:
Monday-Friday 9:30 am - 7:30 pm EST
Saturday 9:30 am - 6:00 pm EST
Sunday 12:00 pm - 5:00 pm EST

Additional Scheduling Options and Information.

This course is also available as a private lesson contact us for details.

If you have questions about this course call us or email our education department at education@studio63.org. Email usually works best for course and workshop questions! Please allow a few days for us to reply as only our instructors return emails and calls regarding courses and workshops and they are also our busiest photographers.