Photography Workshops: Dance with Light and Shadow

This photo was taken with just one light. Want to learn how to do that?

Not too long ago, we launched a series of monthly photography workshops. These three-hour sessions, held on a Saturday morning, are a chance to delve more deeply into some aspect of photography that we might touch on in one of our courses. In previous photography workshops, we’ve talked about how to pose a subject for maximum impact and when to use which lens to capture the shot you want.

In December, on the 13th, our topic will be Advanced Studio Photography.

Photography – the really awesome, gallery-worthy stuff, anyway – is all about the interplay of light and shadow.

Advanced studio photography more often than not takes lighting schemes and techniques right to the edge, just before everything falls apart. This style of lighting requires a bit of a different approach. A different way of thinking. How can you go beyond lighting for exposure and make light and shadow dance with your subject?

What we’ll look at:

• Lighting effects and how they relate to the human form

• How to use light and shadow to suggest, rather than expose

• How to create the thought of beauty in 3 dimensional space

• How to use planarity together with lighting techniques to create beauty

• How to use a single light to create a fascinating dance of light and shadow

It’s pretty awesome stuff. It will take your photography to a whole new level if you let it. We hope you can join us on December 13th at 9:30 AM. For more information on this session, or to see the full roster of upcoming photography workshops, visit our Monthly Workshops page.

Walter Schnecker, CPP, CPC

Walter Schnecker is the owner of C1M Photography, LLC, in Amherst, NH. He’s been educating photographers in southern New England and beyond for the last seven years. He loves bending light and shadow to his will, and he’d be happy to help you learn to do the same.