Come and join us for an afternoon photo walk in the woods, river and ruins in a wonderful location just outside of Guildford. It’s a picturesque part of Surry with plenty of opportunities for unusual and interesting shots.
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Visual Storytelling - Off camera flash and Photoshop workshop with Jade Lyon.
We are running this event again thanks to lots of interest!
Sunday 31st March - 10am- 4pm - In Farnborough, Hampshire.
Run from our home which we have styled to be a versatile studio space with different set ups.
I will demonstrate the set up above on the poster and variations on that. Centred around building narrative into portraiture, I will take you through developing a story within your portraiture, using lighting tricks and model direction, use of props and show you how to disguise light sources and locations. This way you will be able to make the best of any location you come across to tell the story you want to tell.
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Simple Speedlight Portraits - An off camera flash and Photoshop workshop with Jade Lyon.
Come and learn just how much you can get out of speedlights for portraiture in any situation. Afterwards I will take you through a full edit of one of your images!
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Visual Storytelling - Off camera flash and Photoshop workshop with Jade Lyon.
We’re running a workshop with fire! This will be from our home in Farnborough, Hampshire.
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Shooting with Rain - How to build and shoot with a rain machine.
I'm really excited to be doing a workshop I've wanted to run for a long time, the image below I shot with my home built rain machine on my driveway. With a total budget of less than £100.
Sunday 12th August 2018 - In Farnborough, Hampshire - £135p/p
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Off Camera Flash and Photoshop Workshop - At our Home Studio
Our first workshop with photoshop tuition included as I've often been asked whether it's something I would do so here it is!
Sunday 15th April - 10am- 4.30pm - In Farnborough, Hampshire.
Run from our home which we've created as a more "lifestyle" studio space with different set ups.
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Speedlight Flash Workshop - Natural Looking Flash - Brighton Feb 2018
Our first workshop in 2018 will be in Brighton at the Copperdollar Studios.
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Private Tuition Event (Camera Group) 18th & 25th September
A private lighting workshop across two evenings in Crawley.
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Devon Evening Sessions - Groups and 1-2-1's
Group Shoot on Sunday 27th August 6:00- 9:00pm
We will spend 2 hours shooting on location around Dartmouth. Starting with natural light at a beautiful beach behind Dartmouth Castle with bridges and steps going down and across the beach. Jade is crazy enough to get in the water as well for some nice sea shots!
We will then make our way back into the town where we can find some interesting spaces with lots of character.
One will be a lovely cobbled alley way where we will introduce the use of flash as well.
For the last 45 minutes, using your photos from the session, Raj will go through some photoshop editing so bring along your laptops as well. In case you don't have one you can use Raj's and send the photos to yourself or save onto a USB.
You can book us for 1-2-1 training sessions for £50 per hour. As this is a 1-2-1 this can be tailored specifically to you! Let us know what you need some help with or do you just need some more experience with photographing a model?
Check out the images below for our location ideas!
These are just test images that we took as we were out and discovered thees great places so Jade is in her normal clothes. Jade will provide a fabulous wardrobe for the shoot!
Vintage Fashion Editorial - Flash Photography Workshop - Natural Light Studio
We are taking our workshops up to Northamptonshire! For the first time we will be doing a workshop north of London, in the beautiful new venue; The Natural Light Studio.
PLEASE NOTE: Bookings are secured on payment. Minimum 3 bookings needed for the workshop to go ahead. If you do book you will be notified either way by Sunday 11th June.
An example of the vintage styling we will be using for Jade on the day.
It's going to be a vintage themed fashion and editorial workshop. I will be showing how to make the best of the environment around you by using both the available light and flash lighting to create a scene. The skills you'll learn will allow you to adapt to any condition and use flash in a way that does not look obviously flash lit. The objective will be to make images that look like only natural light was used using techniques like High Speed Sync and utilising the principles of inverse square law.
We will be starting in the studio at 11 am and going through some principles of balancing daylight and ambient. Using simple props to transform a room into an engaging and dynamic scene with my cinematic lighting styles.
Next will be the elevator: The venue has an amazing old elevator and here we will go through using flash, gels and white balance to imitate a sun set lit indoor scene.
And as a unique bonus, this venue has a vintage fire engine that we will be lighting for a larger scene. Something epic for your portfolios!
Throughout the day, Jade Lyon will be on hand offering tips and pointers with both the lighting, composition and model direction.
I will be building the scenes light by light/reflector so that you will be able to replicate the style afterwards.
All workshops include some written materials outlining the concepts that we will be covering, with a few example images and the lighting diagram and settings to go with it, so that you have something to refer to afterwards. As well as a model pose guide/ cheat sheet to allow you to get some great shots from the start of any shoot so you and the model can feel more confident.
LONDON - On location lighting - Lingerie and Speedlights - BANK HOLIDAY MONDAY 29TH MAY
An exciting new workshop in a brilliant location. The Towerbridge Penthouse. This workshop will be centered around the use of speedlights balanced with daylight and ambient light to create cinematic images.
I will show how to make the best of an environment around you by using both the available light and flash lighting to create a scene. The skills you'll learn will allow you to adapt to any condition and use flash in a way that does not look obviously flash lit. The objective will be to make images that look like only natural light was used using techniques like High Speed Sync and utilising the principles of inverse square law.
Throughout the day, Jade Lyon will be on hand offering tips and pointers with both the lighting, composition and model direction.
There is a morning session and afternoon session available.
This workshop is suitable to anyone wanting to get into off camera flash regardless of your genre of photography, be it weddings, fashion or narrative.
The setup for the shot. Note there is no windows around, all the light is from flash used to mimic window light.
Outdoor Speedlight Workshop 6pm-9pm
A new workshop from us this summer. We will be meeting at the bandstand in Hove and making the most of the Brighton seafront during the summer time. This workshop is perfect for any photographer looking to get more into speedlight and flash photography, particularly wedding and fashion/ commercial photographers.
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Lighting Masterclass: Speedlights - Advanced (2 models)
Our newest workshop on offer, this one covers speedlights in even more detail. Located in the brand new Garden Bar in Hove. This venue offers large open plan spaces with some fantastic furniture and decoration to go with it, allowing us to really get into creating great images.
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Lighting Masterclass: Speedlights
Our speedlight workshop is set in the wonderful Caribou Rooms in the centre of Hove, just a short walk from the seafront. We will start in the characterful basement bar area. This is cut off from the natural light from outside so makes a great place to see the affects of just the speedlights and mimics the conditions many wedding photographers face through the event.
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Lighting Masterclass: Narrative Lighting Essentials.
We are using The Brunswick in Hove for this workshop. It is an endlessly quirky venue with so many different corners and backdrops that allow us a wealth of different photo opportunities. Running from 11am - 5pm. We are doing it across multiple rooms in the Brunswick so there is a quite a variety of set-ups available.
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