Garage Studios

We just wanted to introduce this picture from one of our Students on the Flash Lighting technique course. If you dont know about the course then you can see details here. Its our most popular one at the minute and we have a lot of students applying for places in the New Year, but some places are still available.

Anyway on the final lesson of this course, flickr student, chris aka AMooseinBrighton shot this great picture- well technically BigBambooly, a student also on the course shot it, but it was chris’s plan and you get the idea….

This was in just 4 weeks of ‘one night a week’ tuition down at the studios.

So if your feeling unsure of how to use your flash, speedlite etc for whatever reason then come along and join this course- we are really enthusiastic about flash and off camera flash that he needs people to spread that passion to. You don’t need to have any experience with flash we have designed the course to take you from very basic to advanced in a short space of time, and you can apply that to shooting anything from portraits to gigs and to very staged images or even just to know how to use fill-in flash on a bright sunny day…

Gift Vouchers are available.

if you are still uncertain then there are more great images from a range of students on our flickr group

Commissioned by a client to shoot her fourth pregnancy. After chatting to us she confessed to wanting a classic DarkDaze style image- big production values, over the top colours, strong lighting and a great location, inspired by the Ophelia Fancy Lido Pictures.

We set ourselves a UK Suburban feel, that was also influenced by Desperate Housewives (the LaChapelle trailer) and Edward Scissorhands. So Matt, (art director) and DD (photographer) went out to source locations. Fortunately thats what we found in Falcon Close, Shoreham.

Excuse the bad drawing but this is genuinely what DD sent off to the stylists, Ophelia Fancy,

After a second consultation with the client we chatted over the idea, as this was a pretty bold image and needed her to be 100% behind the idea.

We organised a styling consultation with Ophelia Fancy- ensuring the client was confident (the key to the picture) in the look we had discussed. We booked a great Hair and Make-Up artist from London, and set about sourcing the final props.

On the shoot date, all make-up was completed in our studio, with final tweaks on location. We shot background images for the client to keep, and also a contact sheet of the entire day.

Matt and Tash worked on the lighting, which was made difficult by extremely windy, cloudy weather, but we settled on 2 bowens 500w with straw (yellow) gels, and metered a stop or so under to get the punch to the sky and clouds that we needed. The strobes were just killing the shadows on the face and making the client stand out from the drab background. You can see some of this in the wide shots.

The final print was a 1m c-type print from pro-lab Spectrum, with an A3 archival print of the B/W contact sheet of the day.

Every aspect of the shoot was managed in house- and we can tailor creative images to your own personal budget, if its for a couple, a band, a portfolio or even something jaw dropping like this shoot.

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