What the course covers

You’ll be shooting in a fully equipped professional studio with a spectacular city loft setting in the heart of Milan, fashion capital of the world . There will be two fabulous professional full-time fashion models for you to shoot along with Bruce’s personal team of professional hair and make up artist and stylist, to ensure the models look and are styled to their best.

Each day, you will cover various fashion photography techniques of shooting in the studio,  giving a good variety of backgrounds and lighting situations, each with technical challenges that Bruce will help you to overcome with instructions, hints and valuable tips to get the best out each studio fashion session and the models.

Bruce will show you how he sets up his various studio fashion lighting techniques, he will show you his techniques of high- and low-key fashion lighting as well as how to get the best shots when using reflectors and diffusion screens and the various modifiers that he uses for his amazing fashion images.

He will take you take you through the steps to build a perfect clean white plus other different lighting and shooting techniques for different types of fashion shoots, such as fashion, beauty for editorial and advertising fashion clients.

Each delegate will have one-to-one time with each model for each styled look.

You will learn:

• The Studio
• Lighting techniques
• Setting up
• Directing your models
• Learn how to generate a flow of positive energy into your own pictures
• You will also learn how to compose your images
• Work your images to fit layouts and pages of magazines
• Learn how to manage your digital workflow
• Clear up the mysteries surrounding colour balance
• Management of your image file
• Learn how to make the most out of studio lighting
• Find out how to use your meter to control image contrast and exposure
• Get the answers to all of those questions you can never find the answers to
• Have a lot of fun and go home with some great images for your own portfolio or website

 

The Team

For the duration of the course, Bruce’s high calibre team of professionals will be working with him to ensure that you get the best looks on the models for your class images and for great value for your money and time. Together they combine to provide the essential ingredients to make your experience the best it can be.

• Fashion Stylist

Our stylist is just one of the essential elements of the successful team that will be creating the exciting fashion ‘looks’ during the course.  This very important role will add that dynamic ingredient to ensure that the images captured are unique to the class and of a calibre you see in fashion editorials.  Bruce uses his vast experience to ensure the right stylist fits into his team to guarantee the best results.

• Make Up Artist / Hair Stylist

Make Up and Hair styling could be referred to as the ‘icing on the cake’.  The technical and creative abilities of the H&MUA are fundamental to the success of any fashion shoot.  Bruce chooses his H&MUA for their creativity and their ability to deliver fabulous looks quickly on the day.

The team has been assembled to help you get the most from the week and are on hand to answer questions and advise on aspects of preparation and shooting fashion.  This means that there are countless opportunities to tap into their insights and knowledge throughout the two days. This interaction will only add to the benefit that you obtain from this class.

• Models

We cannot produce fabulous fashion images without fabulous fashion models.  Bruce only picks models that are full time professionals as well as suiting the specific looks that are created during his fashion photography master classes.

 

 

 

 

The Location

You’ll be shooting in this spectacular loft-style studio with plenty of natural light as well as a complete range of professional studio lighting:

With over 200 m2 of daylight open-space, 8 metres of height, a pure white resin floor and finishes in stainless steel and glass, the studio provides a dramatic high tech setting for fashion shots.

Why Choose the Bruce Smith Photography Academy?

• Limited Numbers Of Photographers On All Courses

In order to maximize the learning opportunity, each delegate is guaranteed personal one-to-one shooting time with each model for each ‘look’. You are part of the team for the time you are on your course. Delegates integrate fully with the models, stylist and hair and make up artist and find out first hand from Bruce and his team what works, what doesn’t and why.

• Discover The Secrets Of Lighting For Fashion

Understand how the images you have seen in countless publications are achieved, when you learn how Bruce lights his amazing location or studio fashion images, then do it for yourself during the class.

Professional Team

Bruce only chooses working professionals to be part of his team.  This guarantees that the wardrobe stylists and make up artists are creating relevant and striking ‘looks’ that help to make the fashion images that will go in to your portfolio be right UP TO DATE FASHION images..

• Agency Standard Professional Models

You will be shooting with Bruce’s choice of agency-level, professional fashion models, picked for their look and their ability to work with photographers.

If you have never photographed a professional model before, this will give you an insight to a whole new world of creativity!

Play the video below to view a series of images actually shot by Bruce’s students during his workshops:

 

For many photographers, fashion photography is a discipline that is aspired to and very  often thought to be out of reach.

For Bruce Smith, this gap between ‘wanting’ and ‘doing’ has created a means for him to share his 30 years of experience as a world class fashion photographer, with people who share his passion for making great pictures.

Whether you are an enthusiast or aspiring professional, part-time or full time, a Bruce Smith Photography Academy Course is going to give you an edge to your images that would otherwise take you years to achieve.

Over the 2 days, Bruce will teach you first-hand how to:

1. Determine exposure whilst shooting with studio flash or in an available light studio or environment, correcting exposure as you shoot.
2. Position your model in the best light.
3. Explore composition for vertical left and right hand pages and double page spreads.
4. Connect with your model.
5. Communicate with your model right through the shot.
6. Direct your model to reflect feelings, emotions and mood.
7. Keep your model moving whilst you shoot so your fashion images have life and movement in them.
8. Keep a good flow of good energy between your model and yourself.
9. Control flash contrast ratios or available light
10. Use the combination of best light with available light or flash using modifiers, reflectors and diffused light to their best.

INVESTMENT for TWO FULL DAYS and ONE EVENING of training, including all costs for models, make-up artists, stylists, studio time and personal training from Bruce Smith: £595 / €645

The course includes an evening preparatory session on the Friday evening before the course and an optional evening of post-production training (additional cost to be confirmed).

DATE: end of October, to be confirmed. Click here to email me for details, to register your interest and find out about early bird booking discounts. Places are limited to a maximum of 10 delegates and candidates will be considered prior to acceptance so please include a link to some of your work for Bruce’s review. But don’t worry: it’s not about the level of photography you are at, it’s about where you want to be and how much passion and energy you are willing to put into getting there”  Bruce wants to help you to fulfill your dreams of becoming a great photographer.