You choose the format best for you, you can download and keep forever, or you can watch it online at any time.

 

 

You will understand how to produce your concept using styling, lighting and shooting.   You can adapt that lighting to your own setup, including simple camera flash units.

 

You will see how the photographer gets the best from the models through interaction and guidance, watching the photography pose the model for perfect images.

 

The shoots cover all sorts of different styles, looks and models. All our models are professional, cover girl models who work internationally.

 

They have each appeared in magazines, on magazine covers and on TV, including Game of Thrones.

 

 Presented by by Simon Q. Walden, an internationally published, award-winning professional photographer and trainer.

 

 

Running time: 150 minutes

 

 

The principle aspect of all the case studies in this video is that rather than being an improvised shoot they are much more a constructed shoot. There may be a visual concept, or a story concept that you are going to create.

 

Probably there is more than just the nude form, that there is some kind of environment, set or location. There may be props, clothes and other stylistic features as part of the shoot.

 

Crucially there is a very strong pre-visualisation of the shoot. That if you are good with words you could describe, if you can draw then you would be able to sketch it and so on.

 

In other words you know where you are starting from and trying to go to. That's not to say that you won't find lots of other opportunities in between. As a shoot evolves you discover new possibilities, new looks, unanticipated shots and happenstance. Whether you pursue those opportunities or focus on your particular goal depends on you as a photographer.

 

A concept shoot is much more like an artist capturing what they have already envisioned. A study shoot by comparison you explore the subject with only a more generalised view of what you are going to achieve.

 

I absolutely believe that creativity can be developed. There is a creative "muscle" which through exercise and training can be enhanced.

You do this by (a) looking, (b) recording, (c) creating.

 

"Looking" and observing what is around you, what you see on TV, film, books, magazines, art galleries, YouTube and the web all go to inform your creativity.

 

"Recording" is making sure you have a means of recalling those observations, to remind and re-inspire you. This may be by notebook, tear sheets, files on your computer and saved to your phone.

 

 

"Creating" is the process where you synthesise those inputs and make and shape the idea that you want to ultimately photograph.

 

This final part is something that some people find harder than others, but you can practice it. Not every idea needs shooting, just brainstorming things you could shoot is sufficient to train your creativity.