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As per the title, Lencarta will be hosting this workshop at "Lencarta Towers" in Bradford, for the benefit of TP members.
It will start at 10 a.m. and finish when it finishes, not later than about 5 p.m.
It will take the form of me setting up and photographing various types of products.
Attendees are invited (encouraged) to bring something along to light and photograph - it can be any kind of product/still life subject, and the more variety we have, the more challenges we can overcome.
As I don't know how many people will be attending and how many, or how complex, the various subjects will be, I can't guarantee that we will be able to cover every subject, but I can guarantee that we will cover as wide a range as possible.
This will be as hands-on as possible. If you bring something along to photograph then you should also bring a camera so that you can get a shot of it on your own camera, but generally it will be me who does the photography, we'll get more done that way.
I'm not sure how many people we can accommodate but I'm thinking at least 15.
Still life/product photography is, IMO the most technically challenging genre there is. It's easy to take a photo that shows what something looks like, but much more complex to produce a shot that shows the unique benefits of that product. And it isn't something that people find easy to learn on courses, and pretty much all of the online tutorials and videos I've seen are worse than useless...
So there you go, it's an opportunity to learn how to improve your lighting. And of course the lighting and compositional principles are universal, they don't apply only to still life shots. All I need right now is an expression of interest, we can sort out details later.
One small problem that needs to be mentioned - I will need everyone to arrive on time and at the same time, because for obvious reasons we have security here and we need to open the security gates for people just once, if possible.
BTW, it's free.
It will start at 10 a.m. and finish when it finishes, not later than about 5 p.m.
It will take the form of me setting up and photographing various types of products.
Attendees are invited (encouraged) to bring something along to light and photograph - it can be any kind of product/still life subject, and the more variety we have, the more challenges we can overcome.
As I don't know how many people will be attending and how many, or how complex, the various subjects will be, I can't guarantee that we will be able to cover every subject, but I can guarantee that we will cover as wide a range as possible.
This will be as hands-on as possible. If you bring something along to photograph then you should also bring a camera so that you can get a shot of it on your own camera, but generally it will be me who does the photography, we'll get more done that way.
I'm not sure how many people we can accommodate but I'm thinking at least 15.
Still life/product photography is, IMO the most technically challenging genre there is. It's easy to take a photo that shows what something looks like, but much more complex to produce a shot that shows the unique benefits of that product. And it isn't something that people find easy to learn on courses, and pretty much all of the online tutorials and videos I've seen are worse than useless...
So there you go, it's an opportunity to learn how to improve your lighting. And of course the lighting and compositional principles are universal, they don't apply only to still life shots. All I need right now is an expression of interest, we can sort out details later.
One small problem that needs to be mentioned - I will need everyone to arrive on time and at the same time, because for obvious reasons we have security here and we need to open the security gates for people just once, if possible.
BTW, it's free.