Location Lighting Workshops: The Studio | The Beach: with Rick Friedman

Photographer, Rick Friedman will be flying in from Boston to teach a two-day* hands-on lighting workshop with live models. He will also share many of the entertaining behind the scenes stories about his photographs and explain the technical challenges that he had to overcome to make his iconic images.

You have the option to buy a one or a two-day photo workshop.
*Single day workshop or a two-day combo can be purchased on Eventbrite
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/location-lighting-workshops-the-studio-the-beach-with-rick-friedman-tickets-55393939765?aff=ebdssbdestsearch

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN HOW TO DO
How to create multiple speed-lights setups
How to create portraiture lighting with an off-camera speedlight.
How to control your speedlights using modifiers, grip equip, and radios
How to use hand-held and in-camera light meters
How to work with a live model
How to capture the character of your subject by balancing ambient light, artificial light and backgrounds.
How to create hard & soft light using soft-boxes, strip lights, reflectors, and grids

ABOUT THE WORKSHOP
DAY ONE | THE STUDIO | SATURDAY, MARCH 23RD

Join Friedman and spend the day in The Studio in an intensive indoor hands-on portrait lighting workshop. Friedman will start with creative lighting with a single flash on camera and progress to the use of multiple camera flash speedlights and demonstrate the effects of different light modifiers in the studio. Attendees will learn how to pose models, where to set lights, and how to use reflectors, softboxes, grids, color gels, and light meters.

The Studio is a full-service photo studio in Ft. Lauderdale.

ABOUT THE WORKSHOP
DAY TWO | THE BEACH | SUNDAY, MARCH 24TH
The beach will be our studio for the day with a live model. Rick Friedman will cover how to photograph in harsh situations like dealing with hot Florida sun and controlling the sun with light modifiers and scrims.

Friedman will start with creative lighting using a single flash on camera and progress to the use of multiple speed lights and the effects of different light modifiers on the beach. Attendees will learn how to pose models, where to set lights, the use of reflectors, softboxes, grids, color gels and light meters. Attendees will learn how to create perfect photographs and over power the harsh Florida sun. We will progress into the "golden hour" and later into the "blue hour" of gorgeous light.

ABOUT RICK
Rick Friedman's work has been published around the globe. He has photographed every presidential candidate from Jimmy Carter to Donald Trump to Campaign 2020, along with thousands of celebrities, musicians, professors, scientists, and authors. Recent assignments have taken Rick to Africa and the United Arab Emirates.

For the past 18 years, Rick has been teaching his hands on “Location Lighting Workshops” across the US, Canada, UK and UAE and lectures​ at colleges and universities. The subtitle of his workshops is “Lighting and Laughing”. “My goal is to make my workshops educational and fun!”

Past workshop sponsors have included: The Xposure International Photography Festival, The Society of Wedding and Portrait Photographers, London, Hunts Photo, Tamron Lens, Nissin Flashes, PocketWizard, Rogue Flashbenders, Sekonic Meters, ThinkTank Photo, Rosco, Dynalite Strobes and Lensbaby. (Rick will have many of these items on hand at the workshop for you to try out).