Over the last few months we have had quite a number of enquiries as to whether or not we run studio lighting courses. To which, up until now, the answer has been... Sorry, but no.
After having three of these enquiries within the space of two days. It kind of dawned on us that perhaps we were missing a trick here. Given one of the things we enjoy doing the most is sharing our knowledge, experience and the little tips and tricks that we have picked up along the way. Providing courses that people obviously want, means that not only do we get to do this, but we can also create an additional revenue stream.
So, after a period of locking ourselves in a room, admittedly with wine and pizza, towards the end of a working day, over a couple of weeks, we’ve pretty much come up with syllabuses for three courses.
These courses are:
Studio lighting - An introduction to studio portrait lighting.
Studio lighting - Intermediate portrait lighting - A creative approach.
Photoshop portrait retouching - The way the professionals do it.
So, why am I putting this on the blog? Am I just try to advertise these courses? Or is there actually a good reason?
Of course there is a good reason! What I’d ready like to know from you, is if you had the chance to request whatever you wanted from a studio lighting course or an image retouching course, what would you ask for? What we’d really like hear about are the sorts of course elements that you personally simply wish that just somebody would make available as part of a course and in turn made sure that you understood how to achieve it.
These course elements can be whatever you want. And I do mean whatever you want. If you want to know how to effectively use studio grade lighting equipment and all the various accessories that come with it, let us know. If you want to know how to achieve similar results without this kind of equipment using items like a flash head for the camera, domestic lighting and all the other Strobist type tricks, again, Let us know.
We have what we think is a good solid, enjoyable and valuable syllabus for each of these three courses. That’s not to say that we have the perfect syllabus for each course. That’s just never going to happen. But we can sure as hell try to do our best to get it pretty close. And that’s where we hope you come in.
So, if you can spare the time, post a reply to this and let us know what you think would help to make a great, not just good, but great course to attend.
Once we have got all of your ideas together, we’ll publish our original syllabus and of course the revised ones, based on what you tell us you would want.
Thanks!
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