07May

Studio course starts 9th June

The very pop­u­lar Fun­da­ment­als of stu­dio por­trait light­ing course starts it’s next term on Sat­urday 9th June. This is a course of four 2 hour classes for a group of between 4 and 6 par­ti­cipants. Get in touch to sign up now.
27Mar

Studio course starts 14th April

We’ve sched­uled the next Fun­da­ment­als of stu­dio por­trait light­ing course to start on Sat­urday 14th April. This is a course of four 2 hour classes for a group of between 4 and 6 par­ti­cipants. You’ll see some of my setup shots from the pre­vi­ous classes here on the blog: Mhairi, Kate […]
15Mar

Upgrades — new Bowens studio flash heads

We’ve just com­pleted the upgrade of the stu­dio flash heads to a nice set of four Bowens Gem­ini 500Pro mono­lights. These are fit­ted with the Bowens Pulsar internal radio trig­gers too — all nice and tidy with no bat­ter­ies to worry about. A nice 40″ square Bowens soft­box has also been added to […]
10Mar

Back from Focus 2012 — lots of exciting news

While there have big announce­ments from most of the gear man­u­fac­tur­ers, for us, the Focus trade show this year was about net­work­ing. Of course see­ing the gear is cool too. So while noth­ing has been set in stone yet, we’re dis­cuss­ing pos­sible work­shops with Bjorn Thomassen, Damian McGil­licudy and Podge Kelly. […]
28Feb

Studio class — Fredau — high key, low key and clamshell

We star­ted this ses­sion with the oblig­at­ory high key white setup. Unless I’m shoot­ing fashion/editorial (or teach­ing), I rarely shoot with high key white for myself. Unfor­tu­nately in com­mon usage, high key only appears to means the high key white style pop­ular­ised by a major pho­to­graphy stu­dio fran­chise. There are […]
09Dec

Studio course starts 14th January

We’ve sched­uled the next Fun­da­ment­als of stu­dio por­trait light­ing to start on Sat­urday 14th Janu­ary. This is a course of four 2 hour classes for a group of between 4 and 6 par­ti­cipants. You’ll see some of my setup shots from the pre­vi­ous course here on the blog: Mhairi, Kate […]
12Nov

Studio portrait lighting class 4 — Jake Greenhill

Por­trait­ure isn’t just pho­to­graph­ing pretty girls, so for the final class I booked Jake from Super­ior Mod­els. Pre­vi­ously we’ve shot with char­coal and white paper back­grounds — today we used the stu­dio wall. A bare wall is remark­ably ver­sat­ile and has the advant­age that the sub­ject can lean against it […]
29Oct

Studio portrait lighting class 3 — Kate Baxter

The model for today’s stu­dio class was Kate from Super­ior Model Man­age­ment in Glas­gow. Work­ing with a bru­nette adds an extra chal­lenge when work­ing with a dark back­ground, but that was the plan. Learn­ing how to main­tain sep­ar­a­tion of dark hair on a dark back­ground is a key skill. The brown […]
15Oct

Studio portrait lighting class 2 — Mhairi McGowan

Mhairi from Super­ior Model Man­age­ment was our model for today’s stu­dio class. These are a selec­tion of my test shots for some of the light­ing setups. After­wards we did a short beauty set using a clam-shell light­ing setup for her agency port­fo­lio with Super­ior Model Man­age­ment. Stu­art McK­en­zie has written […]