The content:
Every day there will be time to shoot, share ideas, review work, and to question and answer ideas that evolve. Assignments will help guide creativity. You will be involved in your work and the work of the other participants. Through out the week you will be encouraged to follow your ideas as well as be inspired by those of others. Each evening we’ll review and refine the day’s take.
As the week proceeds you will become comfortable using Camera Raw to optimally process image files. I will demonstrate digital retouching and enhancement techniques for eyes, lips, teeth, and body shape. You’ll practice them on your own photographs from the shoots.
Schedule:
Day one:
Introductions, establishing workflows for shooting and post production
Day two:
Shooting in the field, review of work, discussion & post during the evening
Day three:
Shooting in the field, review of work, discussion & post during the evening
Day four:
Shooting in the field, review of work, discussion, retouching demos during the evening
Day five:
Shooting in the field, review of work, discussion & hands on retouching during the evening.
Day six:
Early morning light shooting. Kevin will retouch and enhance some of your work
Waht is needed?
Helpful camera skills include an understanding of using the camera in manual mode and shooting RAW. Required computer skills including use of a mouse, and working with the operating system for creating folders and moving files. A knowledge of working with layers, layer masks and using Adobe Camera Raw is not required although it will enhance the experience.
Equipment Requirements:
DSLR (digital single lens reflex) camera
Medium zoom lens 28mm to 70mm for example
Tripod
Laptop
External Hard Drive
Card Reader
Software:
Adobe Photoshop CS2, CS3 or CS4
Optional Gear & Software:
Hand held Incident flash meter (Sekonic L358)
(Sekonic 758DR) built in spot meter also reads reflected light.
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom v2
Tethering software (supplied with most DSLRs additional for Nikon DSLRs)
This workshop immerses you in creating successful, beautiful photographs of women. Each project begins with a thorough explanation of a lighting technique, how to meter the light, set the exposure then follows up by demonstrating the effects with a model. Then you’ll experience using the setup; including measuring and setting exposure, tweaking the exposure and color perfectly in Camera Raw all the way through non-destructively finishing the photograph in Photoshop. This is all about creativity, play, making mistakes and learning from them; asking lots of questions then revisiting the technique. Some of the topics covered in the workshop:
Quality of light
Contrast
Exposure
Camera Raw
Posing
Interacting and coaching the model
Butterfly lighting
Rembrandt lighting
Beauty lighting
High key lighting
Controlling backgrounds
So get in touch with your sense of wonder, play and creation.
This will be an amazing week!
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