In this short film Mark Cleghorn talks about and demonstrates how he uses the Honl Traveller 8 softbox for speedlites in his editorial style of portraiture.

The softbox can be used with on camera flash or with off the camera flash to create a softer light source to either act as a fill light or as the key light on the subject.

Mark also talks about using High speed flash sync and flash TTL compensation to create more editorial images.

Get accurate colour in difficult lighting with the patented ExpoDisc, the fast and easy digital white balance filter. Simply read and set white balance with the ExpoDisc in place before shooting and you’ll reduce or eliminate the need for post-capture colour adjustments. Get the white balance solution that is quickly becoming the preferred method of achieving accurate colour balance for professional
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In this film Mark Cleghorn shows you how to get to grips with custom colour using the EXPODISC on both Canon and Nikon cameras. This film covers how to setup and use custom colour setting on the camera with EXPODISC inside the studio with flash, using ambient light in a room setting as well as out side on location with natural light..

EXPODISC Digital White Balance Filters

* Fine-tune your colour at point of capture
* Works in mixed, or difficult lighting
* Replaces your grey cards and white cards
* Spend more time shooting and less on workflow
* It’s convenient, fast and easy-to-use

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Real and RAW is the only way to explain this type of wedding training by Mark Cleghorn, as you get to see how a working photographer copes under the pressures of a real wedding day, nothing fake here, as even the images have only been touched by camera RAW in conversion, so no Photoshop, just conversion from RAW to jpeg with some of the images selected to Black & White.

The 6th and final part of Confetti & Lace IV features Mark Cleghorn discussing the wedding day overall. Mark chats about the wedding, the time management, location choice image variety, camera technique, how he uses flash as well as the general wedding day goals.

In this film series you get to see some of “Osy’s”, the first ever PhotoTraining4U “Apprentice” Mark Osman’s, basic photography training

Over the next 12 months you will be able to track “Osy” as he has been nicknamed on his training journey using a combination of specific films on PhotoTraining4U and hands on monthly tuition with Mark Cleghorn on his route to becoming a better photographer.

In this film Mark Cleghorn gives a Osy’s some basic camera skills as he corrects his shooting technique, to adjust his balance when shooting for slower shutter speeds. Plus Mark sets the first ever homework before the real training begins.
Osy’s First Films to watch Generations part 2

In this film you get to see some of “Osy’s”, the first ever PhotoTraining4U “Apprentice” Mark Osman’s, basic photographs before training

Over the next 12 months you will be able to track “Osy” as he has been nicknamed on his training journey using a combination of specific films on PhotoTraining4U and hands on monthly tuition with Mark Cleghorn on his route to becoming a better photographer.

In this 2 part film Mark Cleghorn gives a basic image critique to Osy’s existing photography before any training is given.

In this film you get to see some of “Osy’s”, the first ever PhotoTraining4U “Apprentice” Mark Osman’s, basic photographs before training

Over the next 12 months you will be able to track “Osy” as he has been nicknamed on his training journey using a combination of specific films on PhotoTraining4U and hands on monthly tuition with Mark Cleghorn on his route to becoming a better photographer.

In this 2 part film Mark Cleghorn gives a basic image critique to Osy’s existing photography before any training is given.

Part 2 of a 2 part studio shoot using a digital projector to light the female nude.

This session See’s Model Lozie, one of Marks favourite classic nude models, creating abstract fine art nude portraits that have to be seen to be believed.

Mark has been using this lighting technique on the nude since the 90’s to create his alien nude images that make you take a second look at the image.

Images Used – Landscape, Signs, Food

This is the second part of a film of 2 young children being photographed in a woodland location, where you get to see how Mark Cleghorn uses an every day location to great effect as well as acting the fool to coax a laugh out of the children.

This film starts with a continuation of the shoot of the young brother and sister, including 2 other locations within a stones throw of the first. You get to see first hand how he can animate a subject from a distance in what some have referred to as his remote control posing. At the end of the film Mark reflects back on the session as the client leaves and discusses some basic childpsychology, or at least some working with children tips.

Quick Tips
Setting up a Canon Speedlite Flash to be used in Ratio modes

Featured Flash Canon 580EXII

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.