Magazine and Fashion Lighting Secrets
© Loren Hammer
Learn the secrets magazine and fashion photographers use to create the strong and dramatic portraits and fashion photographs seen in magazines. Loren Hammer’s intensive weekend workshop will empower participants with the knowledge to produce portraits in both natural and studio lighting. Master natural light and the ways it can be shaped and modified to create a natural and professional key light. Learn the use of studio flash and their modifiers; the fresnel light, umbrellas, lightboxes and broad diffused light sources as they relate specifically to photographing people and learn how to use inexpensive small off-camera flash to produce the same effects!
The workshop will be comprised of portrait demonstrations with a model, followed by student practice sessions guided by the instructor. Whether you photograph children or rock stars and celebrities, this workshop will take your photography to the next level.
Loren Hammer (www.lorenhammer.us) is an educator and award-winning photographer with over 25 years experience working in fashion and commercial photography. Steeped in film noir aesthetics, his stylized photographs for fashion designers Yohji Yamamoto, Norma Kamali and Chantal Thomas and his editorial work for GQ, Vogue Homme, and Vanity Fair are known for their elegant and graphic composition and strong design sense. A MFA graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, Hammer spent two years studying composition and design with William Tsinski, a student of cubist Enrico LaBron, and has collaborated with artists Jon Kessler, Cindy Bernard, and many others. He has lived and worked in the United States, Europe and Asia.
