ONE BIG BEAUTIFUL WORKSHOP
One of the most incredible lighting experiences you can have is working with one large light. This 8-week workshop is designed to give you a taste of this experience through a variety of challenges.
We will be doing:
- Two Food Assignments
- Two Product Assignments
- Two Still Life Assignments
- Two Portrait Assignments.
We will cover the construction of a large scrim suitable for any light source: strobe, speedlights, continuous light, or sunlight. We’ll dive into using this large light to create images that will blow you away. I have wanted to do this workshop for years, and now I am doing it. We start right after Thanksgiving, but you will get the scrim instructions upon signing up as well as many other goodies.
MORE INFORMATION HERE
The Collective is a large format book of photography designed to show photographs from members of Project 52. This is our 2024 Edition. If you want to download it, this is a link for the PDF. Download the two previous versions below.
THESE PDF COPIES ARE FREE COURTESY LIGHTING ESSENTIALS AND THE TALENTED PHOTOGRAPHERS FEATURED INSIDE.
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