Bruce Smith Fashion and Beauty Lighting

Fashion and fine art nudes photographer in Paris Bruce Smith

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Fashion photographer in Paris Bruce Smith specialises in fashion photography, fine art boudoir and fine art nude portraiture, celebrity portraits, general people portraiture and actors headshot photography in most major cities in Europe including Bordeaux, Paris, Monaco and London.

Sharing his knowledge and 40 years plus experience as a professional fashion and fine art nudes photographer with other photographers during his 1-2-1 fashion and fine art nudes photography master classes, photography courses and photography workshops mainly near Bordeaux, France but also in other major fashion cities around Europe.

Bruce also speaks on a regular basis at arts institutions, universities, photographic societies and does photography shoot demonstrations during photography events, conventions and expos. Join Bruce's fashion and fine art nudes photography workshops newsletter to keep updated .

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The lighting secrets of vintage boudoir, lingerie and fashion photography workshops at a French chateau.

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Spend a weekend shooting beautiful models with me mentoring and giving demonstration shoots of how I approach my location lighting set ups..

You will be learning every thing you need to know about shooting vintage lingerie fashion photography on location using available natural daylight light, artificial light using flash equipment kits, on and off camera flash, lighting modifiers, reflectors, diffusers and bounced light.
You will be staying for 3 nights full board at the beautiful Napoleonic Chateau, Chateau de L'Espie in Clerac near to Bordeaux. We will provide transfers from and to Bordeaux airport or the train station, St Jean.

Arriving on a the Friday in time for dinner and getting to know your fellow photographers, the team and the models.

After dinner I will be giving a short talk and a slide show of my images to inspire you, followed by a question time and a few glasses of lovely Bordeaux wine.

I will be giving you guidance in how to add the extra magic into your directing, lighting and setting up your shots. Showing you how to direct theatre into your images so they are believable images with a sense erotic energy.

Its not so simple, it takes a great deal of trust and the right manor and approach to your shooting style or your images will look cheap and not be convincing.

Early morning on the Saturday I will be showing you around the chateau whilst our models are being made up and styled for the first demo shooting sessions, which will take place in and around the various rooms and locations inside the chateau and, weather permitting, outside, from 11am until 1pm, when we break for lunch from until 2pm.

After lunch you will be setting off to shoot with your models until c5 or 6pm or when the light has gone.

Each of the models will be working with you on a 1 basis in each of the shooting areas of the chateau with the photographers moving around every 1 to 1.5 hours giving you plenty of time to practice your shooting and lighting techniques that I will have demonstrated to you in the morning.

I will be moving around the sets/locations whilst you are shooting, offering some hints and tips and helping you to get the most from your models, the locations and the lighting.

Over the 2 days you will get a chance to shoot with all of the models.

During the early evening we will be reviewing and edit images taken before dinner at 8pm. We will repeat this schedule for the Sunday.

A maximum of 10 places for each mentored weekend shoot.

The fees for this amazing weekend include, transfers, 3 nights accommodation at the chateau full board, the models, the styling and hair and make plus my mentoring.

If you are interested in attending the next weekend shoot get back to me for the next available dates and how to book your place.

Models and the styling mood boards will be provided to you after you have booked your place to keep this exclusive so your images are unique. Too often concepts get copied by others.

The next weekend workshop:

Where: Chateau de Clerac,
(near Bordeaux, France)
When: 7th and 8th May 2016
(arriving 4th, leaving 7th March 2016)

Booking your place on the next weekend workshop

"Vintage lingerie fashion photography weekend workshop"

Where: Chateau de Clerac, Clerac, near Bordeaux, France
(fullboard accom at the chateau)
When:   7th to 8th May 2016

Non Members Fees: £650.00

Members Fees: £450

Non members fees 820 euros


Members Fees: 565e

Any problems booking here follow this to the main website booking.

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Bruce Smith Academy

One 2 One Fashion And Nude Photography Courses

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refer a friend gift vouchers

Refer a friend, if they book a 5 day course with us, you will receive £100 towards your own course fees plus your friend will also receive a gift of £100 towards their fees if they book a course with The Bruce Smith Photography Academy.

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Fashion Photography Lighting Tip Of The Week 12/08/2013

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Fashion Photography Lighting Tip Of The Week 12/08/2013

Bruce Smith Photography Academy New Look Website

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Bruce Smith Fashion Photographer

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Fashion Photography Lighting Tip Of The Week

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The Bruce Smith Photography Academy Free Fashion Photography Lighting Tip Of The Week:

Creating both mood and contrast using a one light set up.

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Lighting technique 3 Shooting on location

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Shooting in the midday sun..

Your shooting out on location and fighting with harsh high direct sunlight. A great solution to this is to get out a large diffuser called a light swatter from Californian Sunbounce to place between your model and the direct sun light.

There are a couple of advantages to shooting under a diffusion screen, besides the fantastic soft flattering light, you have 2 options for creating separation of model and background, 1 the difference in exposure values under and outside of the diffuser of 1 to 1.5 to 2 stops difference in light value, depending upon which level of diffusion screen you use, I use 1.5 stop diffuser. This means the background is going to be 1.5 stops brighter that the light on your model, burning out any unwanted confusing objects as well as the use of differential focus allowing you to shoot wide open apertures blowing the background out of focus..

If you want to learn more about how I light my location shoot images, GET BOOKED onto one of my location fashion photography master classes..

Lighting Technique 2 Shooting on location

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When I light a location shoot I do my best to light my images in such a way that you can not tell that I have used artificial lighting.

I bounce, diffuse and reflect my light to give the impression of natural light..

Click on each magazine page to enlarge the article explaining how I lit this Linia Intima Magazine Lingerie Collections Editorial.

Lighting Technique 1 - Dramatic Fashion Lighting

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I wanted to created a really moody lighting set up with lots of shadow and movement of my models body.

I chose to shoot on an infinity cove thats 20ft wide by 12ft deep by 12ft high.

To achieve the movement in a shot like this takes a great deal of direction and control over your model as well as styling that allows your model freedom to move.

Un-retouched and not cropped image.

Lighting diagram:

Equipement needed to produce an image like this..

1: Coved studio painted white or 12ft wide colorama.
2: 500 wt flash head with 1mtr octa light modifier.
3: 2x 8ft x 4ft poly board painted white one side and black on the other.
4 : Boom arm on stand to help position light exactly where its needed.
5: DSLR with wide angle zoom. I use 24mm to 75cm or 17mm to 55mm f2.8 zoom.
6: Radio or infra red flash sync.
7: Model that has dance experience.
8: Flash meter.
9: Wind machine.

Fashion Photography Lighting Splits The Men and Woman From The Boys and Girls......

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Shooting fashion is one of the most exciting fields within the professional photography business; it is also one of the most competitive.

To help you to compete you need to learn about several basic fashion and beauty lighting set ups.

I have set up this blog to give an insight into how I light my fashion and beauty images..
Each week, I will be posting a new lighting set up with image, diagrams and instructions for you to try out yourself and hopefully to develop your own techniques and lighting styles..

If you see any of my images that you would like to know how I lit the image, email me a copy of it and I will post how I produced the image on this bog. See web album for images......

MY WEB ALBUM

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Bruce Smith Fashion and Beauty Lighting

Fashion and fine art nudes photographer in Paris Bruce Smith

Links to my new website.

Fashion photographer in Paris Bruce Smith specialises in fashion photography, fine art boudoir and fine art nude portraiture, celebrity portraits, general people portraiture and actors headshot photography in most major cities in Europe including Bordeaux, Paris, Monaco and London.

Bruce also speaks on a regular basis at arts institutions, universities, photographic societies and does photography shoot demonstrations during photography events, conventions and expos. Join Bruce's fashion and fine art nudes photography workshops newsletter to keep updated.

The lighting secrets of vintage boudoir, lingerie and fashion photography workshops at a French chateau.

Refer a Friend Gift Vouchers

Fashion Photography Lighting Tip Of The Week 12/08/2013

Bruce Smith Photography Academy New Look Website

Fashion Photography Lighting Tip Of The Week

Lighting technique 3 Shooting on location

Lighting Technique 2 Shooting on location

Lighting Technique 1 - Dramatic Fashion Lighting

Fashion Photography Lighting Splits The Men and Woman From The Boys and Girls......

Shooting fashion is one of the most exciting fields within the professional photography business; it is also one of the most competitive.

Bruce also speaks on a regular basis at arts institutions, universities, photographic societies and does photography shoot demonstrations during photography events, conventions and expos. Join Bruce's fashion and fine art nudes photography workshops newsletter to keep updated .