Lighting Studio Flash

This training video is designed to not only improve your studio lighting skills but also to give you an insight in to one of today's leading portrait photographers and how Mark poses and interacts with his subjects.

Topics Covered?

• The Equipment - Studio lighting and Soft-boxes.


• 45 Degree Lighting


• High Key Portraiture & Set up


• Mid Key Portraiture & Set up


• Low Key Portraiture & Set up


• The Session & Basic Posing

This training video is designed to not only improve your studio lighting skills but also to give you an insight in to one of today's leading portrait photographers and how Mark poses and interacts with his subjects.

Topics Covered?

• The Equipment - Studio lighting and Softboxes.


• 45 Degree Lighting


• High Key Portraiture & Set up


• Mid Key Portraiture & Set up


• Low Key Portraiture & Set up


• The Session & Basic Posing

This training video is designed to not only improve your studio lighting skills but also to give you an insight in to one of today's leading portrait photographers and how Mark poses and interacts with his subjects.

Topics Covered?

• The Equipment - Studio lighting and Softboxes.


• 45 Degree Lighting


• High Key Portraiture & Set up


• Mid Key Portraiture & Set up


• Low Key Portraiture & Set up


• The Session & Basic Posing

This training video is designed to not only improve your studio lighting skills but also to give you an insight in to one of today's leading portrait photographers and how Mark poses and interacts with his subjects.

Topics Covered?

• The Equipment - Studio lighting and Soft -boxes.


• 45 Degree Lighting


• High Key Portraiture & Set up


• Mid Key Portraiture & Set up


• Low Key Portraiture & Set up


• The Session & Basic Posing

This training video is designed to not only improve your studio lighting skills but also to give you an insight in to one of today's leading portrait photographers and how Mark poses and interacts with his subjects.

Topics Covered?

• The Equipment - Studio lighting and Soft-boxes.


• 45 Degree Lighting


• High Key Portraiture & Set up


• Mid Key Portraiture & Set up


• Low Key Portraiture & Set up


• The Session & Basic Posing

Part 1 of 2 this film explores the variety of images of just mother and child, in both relaxed jeans and a T-shirt attire to a more classical all in white look in high key. Mark Cleghorn starts by explaining the high key set and the baby poser he uses for the shots of just the baby.

Mixing hi-key and mid key to allow for the colour and black and white image mix the client has asked for, you see how the lighting simply changes to dramatically effect the image.

Includes - Baby Poser, Hi-Key, Mid-Key, Mother and Baby as well as baby by self.

Filmed Live at an exhibition this film shows mark demonstrating how shooting with hard light is great for glamorous fashion type images. Initially just using 1 light and a clip on barn door he shows how to gradient a background and how to light the subject at the same time using a parabolic reflector dish.

The demonstration leads on to adding in a second light as a hair light as well as to effect the image usin flare for effect.

Shot live at an exhibition Mark Cleghorn explains the techniques for shooting full length fashion portraits. This short film demonstrates the key skills to effective portraits whether you are in a studio or on location. He discusses his Souffle Lighting - which basically means by using the same lighting techniques each time you are guaranteed of the results.

Hi-Key set up is discussed, one that will work any were even at an exhibition trade hall setting.

Filmed live at an exhibition this technical film on lighting see Mark Cleghorn demonstrating and explaining his one light techniques for portraiture and fashion photography. Using a combination of hard light, which is what he calls the Raw flash hitting the subject, along with lighting accessories to shape, modify and soften the light, including a Parabolic reflector, as well as using a Lastolite HiLite background as a soft-box.

You will also see how he uses a reflector to enhance an already flat lit subject to bring a little accent to the light on the face.