This film Mark Cleghorn shows you how to make a text brush in Photoshop

This technique is ideal for design applications and layouts including copyright, album design and backgrounds in an image.

In this film Mark Cleghorn sets out to unravel the basics of using multiple speedlites and the Automatic Ratio feature using a simple mug shot in a set.

Using 1 Speedlite is simple, using 2 is OK but when combing 3 and 4 in an image, as in this film, things could get a little more complicated.

Mark first of all goes into the basics of setting up a Canon 580EXII and an older 580EX to combine and use together in the shoot, then adding a third speedlite to start to use the Ratio feature.

This Technical film on speedlites is easy to follow as Mark takes you step by step through each stage.

PART 3 of 4

This training video is designed to help you create more dramatic studio portraits using advanced lighting skills and techniques using different studio lighting accessories as well as giving you an insight into Mark’s day to day techniques which makes him still one of today’s leading portrait photographers.

Topics Covered…

* How best to use Lighting Accessories.
* Split Light
* Ring Flash
* Adding a kicker Light
* Low Key Impact
* Blending Flash & Tungsten
* The Session & Posing

PART 2 of 4

This training video is designed to help you create more dramatic studio portraits using advanced lighting skills and techniques using different studio lighting accessories as well as giving you an insight into Mark’s day to day techniques which makes him still one of today’s leading portrait photographers.

Topics Covered…

* How best to use Lighting Accessories.
* Split Light
* Ring Flash
* Adding a kicker Light
* Low Key Impact
* Blending Flash & Tungsten
* The Session & Posing

PART 1 of 4

This training video is designed to help you create more dramatic studio portraits using advanced lighting skills and techniques using different studio lighting accessories as well as giving you an insight into Mark’s day to day techniques which makes him still one of today’s leading portrait photographers.

Topics Covered…

* How best to use Lighting Accessories.
* Split Light
* Ring Flash
* Adding a kicker Light
* Low Key Impact
* Blending Flash & Tungsten
* The Session & Posing

Its a tuff job, Mark Cleghorn gets to shoot Fashion again, this time a quick lingerie shoot in side one of Londons premier halls, Olympia, with its incredible industrial ceiling.

Lighting the subject with only Quantum flash units this film demonstrates how mark uses flash on location to either make dark moody images or bright and light portraits.

Mark starts the film by explaining the basic Quantum flash units as well as the set up, including exposure and the light positions, then you get to see the different gadgets and accessories he uses when working on location, when time is limited and light is dropping.

Accessories used include – Gorilla Grip, Ezybox Hot Shoe, Snoot, Lastolite Reflectors, FreeXWire radio triggers.

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

Part 1 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 film is an introduction to using CS4 Adobe Bridge and Camera RAW for editing images, re-naming, colour correction and basic image enhancement. In other words doing most of the work before even touching Photoshop.

Bridge and Camera RAW part 2 – covers the Review Mode, Key-wording and Meta data, basics of Camera RAW to adjust Exposure, Colour, Retouching as well as introducing some Automation to the work-flow

Part 3 of 3

In this last part of shooting with speedlite film you see Mark Cleghorn adding in fill light to the subject with on camera flash to complete the picture, whilst changing power settings to control the depth of shadow to highlight. Finally you see him switch between using a smallLastolite HiLite as a background to suddenly becoming a window of light source.

Includes – adding gell for colour, Hikey on location, coloured backgrounds and a re- cap on the 3 films