2 Part Studio Lighting Masterclass with Hands on Workshop

2 Part Studio Lighting Masterclass with Hands on Workshop

Course Overview:

Join Mike’s Camera for a small group, hands on, extensive exploration of creativity in the studio. The class includes a comprehensive online lecture and a four and a half hour workshop.

The workshop includes and evening lecture to outline lighting in a studio setting and four and a half hours inside a full scale studio space in Denver, Colorado. Here we will work with studio gear and a live model to create imagery using between one and five strobes.

What you will Learn:

• The five characteristics of light and how to manipulate them.
• One light portraits.
• Using fill lights and reflectors.
• Hair lights, rim lights, and background lights.
• Clamshell, high key, and low key set ups.

This online workshop with give you more confidence with your speedlite to add more light to your subjects, giving better tonal range and more dramatic images.

Online Lecture

The space with the greatest creative space available for a photography is the studio, a place where you control all the light that appears in your image. But when we finally step into the studio we don’t have any firm direction of exactly how to proceed. The Studio Masterclass aims to solve this problem. We will teach the essential lighting positions from single light, to fill, to high key, to lowkey, to clamshell. These will be your starting positions anytime you step into the studio.

Hands-on Studio Shoot

Using the techniques we learned in class, we will shoot using a full studio space and a live model. We will start with single light set ups and gradually add lights to the mix, building a variety of effects along the way. By the end you will be comfortable with studio lighting and positioning lights to create exactly the effect you want.‍

We hope to see you there!

Due to the hands of nature of this workshop it is limited to 8 attendees

Part 1: Live Online Lecture:

Tuesday, August 26, 2025 6:30pm - 8:30pm Mountain Time

Part 2: In-Person Hands-On Studio experience:

Sunday, August 31, 2025 1790 s Bannock st. Denver, CO 80223 3:00pm - 6:00pm Mountain Time

( Attendees can arrive at 2.45pm for an on-time start)