I’ve recently started doing one to one training, now that I have more time in Manchester and easy access to Hallam Mill Studio. Yesterday Dan came to see me for some help with lighting. He had many years of natural light experience but wanted a little help with flash. We were lucky enough to have Carole model for us, we’ve worked together before and you can see more of our images on my Flickr Stream
We started out with a basic headshot and built up the lighting to include key, rim and fill until we ended up with this
I took the iPad with me and we found the ability to see the images on there, transmitted from the camera by the eye-fi card, really useful. You can read more about this set-up on my earlier blog post here
We then applied the skills learned in the headshot set-up to other settings such as full length and 3/4 shots such as this one.
All our lighting was done with Strobist style kit, using small ebay softboxes, Manfrotto Nano stands, Nikon SB800s and Alien Bees PLM brollies.
One to one training can be tailored to your particular needs so any photographers that are interested in something similar please drop me a line. The training and studio time is only £45 an hour and you can either supply your own model or I can find one for you with no mark up.
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