Ready to learn how to harness light but don't have the time to attend an in-person workshop? Want the convenience of learning how to turn just about any situation into a fabulous photo from the comfort of your couch? The {life as art} Lighting Workshop in a Box is for you! The Lighting Workshop in a Box is an in-depth discussion of off-camera, on-location lighting. The lighting workshop covers all topics that pertain to on-location, off-camera lighting, including incorporating lighting into family and wedding photography. The workshop delves deep in how to set up, meter and modulate light, allowing you to create spectacular images at any time of day and in any lighting conditions.
In particular, the {life as art} Lighting Workshop in a Box covers the following topics:
- Understanding the properties of light,
- Setting up and using off-camera lights,
- Getting amazing images even in the harshest, brightest light,
- Shooting outside on location,
- Shooting inside on location,
- Using lights on location with families,
- Using lights on location with weddings,
- Using light modifiers to modulate light,
- Creative lighting tricks, and
- Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Lightroom techniques and tricks as pertains to off-camera lighting photos.
This workshop focuses on both wedding and family photography, showing you ways to incorporate lighting into most shooting situations.
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Note: This workshop does not discuss natural light photography, composition, on-camera flash, in-depth posing, running your business, etc. All of those topics are covered in my {life as art} Professional Workshop and Professional Workshop in a Box.
The {life as art} Lighting Workshop assumes that you have a good understanding of shooting manually (or on M). Check out our FAQs for a little quiz to ensure that this workshop is right for you. The workshop materials do not spend time discussing proper exposure, shutter speed, aperture, etc., except how these items pertain to off-camera lighting. If you would like information on the basics of manual metering and exposure, check out our Beginner Manual, which we offer at checkout as an add-on to your workshop registration. Additionally, our {life as art} Professional Workshop or Professional Workshop in a Box cover manual metering and histograms I more detail and are highly recommended.
The {life as art} Lighting Workshop in a Box includes the following items:
- The {life as art} Lighting Workshop manual: This is a 250-page 6x9 manual that covers all topics pertaining to using flash off-camera, on-location. The book discusses ONLY off-camera, on-location lighting, discussing topics such as how and when to use off-camera flash, using different modifiers to modulate your light, harnessing flash power, creative uses of flash, etc. This book is an actual textbook (not just a copy of powerpoint slides) and includes hundreds of full color images and illustrations, as well as review questions and exercises that you can do to practice principles in each chapter. Also, there is very little overlap between the Lighting Workshop Manual and the Professional Workshop Manual (at most 8-10 pages of overlap). So if you already own the Professional Workshop Manual, you can be assured that the Lighting Manual is an entirely different book with brand-new content. You can see a Table of Contents and images from the book in the image gallery above.
- The {life as art} Lighting Workshop DVD-Rom: The Lighting Workshop DVD-rom contains video tutorials and all sorts of Photoshop goodies. Specifically, the DVD contains the following:
- On-Location Video Tutorials and Demonstrations: The Lighting Workshop DVD-rom contains hours of on-location tutorials and demonstrations. This is NOT just a video of me lecturing a class, but instead is on-location instruction showing how I implement and use the principles I discuss in the Lighting Workshop Manual. Come along as I shoot a bride, two engaged couples and a young family, explaining all along my thought processes and how I set-up and work each shot. Also, watch my detailed explanations of how to set-up, meter and shoot using off-camera lighting. Please note that though the videos are extensive, they are not meant to replace the information contained in the manual. Instead, they supplement the manual material and will help solidify your lighting skills.
- A custom set of Lighting Workshop in a Box actions for Adobe Photoshop CS2 and higher. These actions were created specifically for the Lighting Workshop and include a new lighting color pop action, lighting vintage action, lighting BW action, a new soft focus action and actions for merging RAW files, inserting textures, selectively adjusting exposure and a new vignette action.
- Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Lightroom editing video tutorials/ The workshop DVD-rom contains hours of digital editing tutorials, showing you how to quickly and effectively turn your off-camera flash photos into masterpieces. The videos cover topics such as quick and effective ways to manually merge different RAW exposures, incorporating Lightroom into your workflow, quick RAW proofing and correcting problems unique to off-camera flash photos. Additionally, the video tutorials address workflow issues and problems, such as seamless head swapping and using the liquify tool.
- A folder of Adobe Photoshop Goodies: The folder of Adobe Photoshop goodies contains 4 fine art textures, 4 grungy textures, a distressed border, a 5x7 photo card template, 7 tapestry 5x7 card templates, a cartouche brush and 7 floral 5x7 card templates. You can see sample images of some of the templates in the Gallery section of this website.
- Vendor Information: The Lighting DVD also contains a folder that lists all the vendors I used to create the contents of the Lighting Workshop in a Box. It also contains a list of recommended vendors and a list of all the vendors that I actually use in my own personal business. There is also a list of all the gear I recommend to get you started shooting off-camera.
- A $25 Flourish Emporium gift certificate.
- Access to the {life as art} Workshop Facebook discussion page.
- Vendor gift certificates, information and offers.
The {life as art} Lighting Workshop in a Box is an incredibly comprehensive resource that will grow your skills and teach you how to take amazing photographs in any location at any time of day.
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Note that we ship to all US addresses, as well as all international addresses. There is a $25 shipping charge for all non-US addresses.
