Some cool types of animals images:
Night fashion - Susan
Image by Fabiana Zonca
Carlo and I are organising a Workshop for next Saturday in London. It will be targeted to basic lighting and how to deal with models.
In Carlo's first workshop, few months ago, he realised that he loves teaching, and that we have learned how to deal with lights and strobes pretty quickly. Shaping Lights will be the first of a series of different workshop we are going to hold in the coming months, but I do not want to spoil it any more.
Obviously we have learned a lot while preparing this one, some obvious and some more subtle. As we need to know that people are serious about commitments, we now reserve a place only after the payment of the small fee is done.
If you are interested in a Workshop, give us a shout, there are still some free slots
You know how to use a camera, but you feel that there is a barrier that you need to go through?
Do you look at your photos and see that there is "something" missing in comparison with the cover of Vogue?
Have you ever felt that the light is not exactly as you would like it to be in your frame?
Did you try to use your on-camera flash, without being remotely satisfied with the unflattering results?
If so you probably want to move your skills a little further and you might find a foundation course in lighting extremely useful!
WHAT WILL YOU LEARN FROM THIS WORKSHOP?
At the end of the "Shaping Lights" workshop you will be able to take your camera and use the light, available or through flashes, to take better photos. You will know how to move the flash away from your camera to give depth to your portraits, how to deal with models and how to set up the lights to obtain the portraits you want. While this workshop will cover primarily portraiture, you will be able to apply the same experience to every type of photography.
And it will be FUN!
WHAT DOES THE WORKSHOP COVER?
We believe that "Practice makes perfect", therefore we have structured our one day workshop in lighting foundation in two parts, one theoretical and one practical.
- Going Manual: how to control the camera 100%
- Light: understand flash
- Gears: how to make the most from the studio tools
- Gears-revisited: inexpensive tools to recreate studio lights
- People: how to light them
- People-revisited: how to deal with them
- Lights and Shadows: why both are important and how to use them
- Rules of Photography (and how to break them)
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Student Project: FF Nelio
Image by FontFont
Student Project in cooperation with Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft, Berlin, 2006
Usually, a designer looks for a suitable typeface for a given text. The students of the third semester in communication design at the HTW changed this approach for their semester project with Prof. Jürgen Huber so that the question now was: which text fits to my typeface?
Different texts for the FontFonts thus making very different books: from manually sewed book about fashion design to the leaded short story collection by Edgar Allan Poe. From oversized book of folded paper planes to the classic “Animal farm” bound in cloth and in a suitable slipcase. Here FF Nelio by Sami Kortemäki has been chosen.
Student Project: FF Eddie
Image by FontFont
Student Project in cooperation with Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft, Berlin, 2006
Usually, a designer looks for a suitable typeface for a given text. The students of the third semester in communication design at the HTW changed this approach for their semester project with Prof. Jürgen Huber so that the question now was: which text fits to my typeface?
Different texts for the FontFonts thus making very different books: from manually sewed book about fashion design to the leaded short story collection by Edgar Allan Poe. From oversized book of folded paper planes to the classic “Animal farm” bound in cloth and in a suitable slipcase. Here FF Eddie by Eddie Baret has been chosen.
