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| Workshop/ Event | Pre-req knowledge | Description | #Attendees Duration | Location | £cost | Dates |
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| 108. Beauty Through the Ages | Some experience in shooting in a studio or on location with lighting. | Come and join us for a day, creating beauty shots throughout the ages. We’ll kick off in the 1920’s, stop off in the 30’s/40’s for a classic Hollywood glamour shot and then fast forward to the 70’s and 80’s and up to the present for a modern beauty headshot. We’ll talk about styling and other visual cues from each era, lighting styles and post-processing. | 4 attendees 6 Hours | Neon Dreams Studio, Hook, | £280 | TBD |
| 107. Outdoor locations | Some experience in shooting in a studio or on location with lighting. | So what do we mean by an “outdoor location”? I’m not talking about out in the garden of a big house. I’m talking about shooting out in the wild, whether that’s an urban or rural location, this type of shoot is defined by modes of transport and a lack of access to things like mains electricity. I.e. – how do you light and shoot an image if you need to carry all of your equipment, including camera, lenses, lights, grip and your lunch, changes of clothes, first aid kit, towels etc on your back. | 3 attendees 6 hours | North Wales; Trossachs, Scotland | £300 | Wales 8th August Scotland 19th July |
| 105. Event: Portrait Power! | Basic camera operation – how to adjust aperture, shutter speed and Iso in manual mode. | Come and join Nicole, Owen, Liv and Ellie at The Kiln Studios in Stoke for an action-packed 3 hour session creating a stunning variety of portraits styles from classic through beauty to some dramatic and dynamic styles. Working in pairs, you’ll shoot with both Ellie and Liv with guidance on posing, interacting with your model and composition from Nicole. Owen will be on hand to provide and tweak the lighting and special effects! At £50 ph this is an amazing opportunity to shoot with not one but two amazing models, in a fantastic creative space with guidance and assistance from our incredible team 🙂 | 4 working in pairs, 3 hours | The Kiln Studio Stoke | £150 | TBD |
| 101. Lighting Basics | Basic camera operation – how to adjust aperture, shutter speed and Iso in manual mode. | If you’re just starting out and want to learn why and how to light your subjects, this is the workshop for you! We’ll take you through the principles of light, and ways of making it with common studio lighting equipment, with a number of worked examples from start to fabulous 🙂 | 4 attendees 4 hours | The Kiln Studio Stoke | £250 | TBD |
| 102. Advanced Studio Lighting | Good working knowledge of hard light, soft light, fall-off, direction, fill light, edge light | Ready to get experimental with your lighting? Moving beyond standard photographic lighting in the studio, in this workshop we explore sources of inspiration from existing images, paintings, and cinematic mood and light. We’ll look at using multiple techniques including gels, fog and haze, volumetric light projection, and specialised light sources such as Fresnel focused spotlights, projectors. Mixing continuous and flash light together. | 4 attendees 6 hours | The Kiln Studio Stoke | £300 | TBD |
| 103. Location Lighting | Some experience in shooting in a studio or on location with lighting. | Shooting on location generally has a different set of goals than a studio shoot. In the studio, we start with a blank, dark box and set out to produce a specific image. We control everything from the backdrop, light, costume, gesture, glance, effects etc. On location, we may still set out to achieve a pre-determined shot, however, the predetermined ideas are likely elements of the shot rather than the whole thing: we may have a lighting style in mind, a setting or just a general theme. As well as bringing these ideas with us, we need to let the location inspire us as well. This 6-hour workshop is limited to 3 attendees due to the nature of the location – ie shooting in bedrooms, bathrooms etc. This pushes the cost up a bit but makes for a much more interactive experience where you’ll work as a team to design, light and shoot the images. | 3 attendees 6 hours | Basford Hurst Cottage, Leek | £370 | 20th June 2026 |
| 104. Posing & Lighting nude figures | Some experience in shooting in a studio or on location with lighting. | Successful art-nude figure shots are as much about the pose, angle and framing as they are about lighting and in this workshop, we’ll look at all aspects of making successful art-nude figure shots including soft light, hard light, upstage lighting, bodyscapes, | 3 places, 6 hours | Fine and Dandee, Wokingham | £370 | 24th May |
| 109 Iconic Lighting Portfolio Builder | Some experience in shooting in a studio or on location with lighting. | Iconic Lighting Portfolio Builder! We run through 4 of our most iconic lighting styles: The Warrior, Vintage Glamour, Nude Goddess, and CyberGlam in one day. You’ll help build the light for each of these sets and see first hand how we establish and tweak each set for maximum impact. | 4 places, 6 hours | Fine and Dandee, Wokingham | £299 | 23rd May |
| 106. Fog n Gels Mini Workshop | Some experience in shooting in a studio or on location with lighting. | Using this very versatile setup, plus fog and oil, we’ll show how, with some small tweeks, you can get very different results from the same set – and make a lot of different images in a short time in the studio. We’ll also talk about the lighting, what works and what doesn’t, and how to light fog for different results. | 3 attendees on each 4 hour session | Neon Dreams Studio, Hook, | £200 | TBD |