CreativeLive – Strobe Light Photography : Lighting on Location with Joel Grimes

✦ 31 Video lessons in HD
✦ 9h 37m of class content
✦ Bonus Material : Gear List
✦ Bonus Material : One Light

http://www.creativelive.com/class/strobe-light-photography-in-the-field-joel-grimes

Master Strobe Lighting To Create Dynamic Portraits

Get out of the studio, and make the most of your portrait photography by combining strobe and natural light. Joel Grimes breaks down strobe lighting through 11 different lighting setups, including shooting at a boxing gym, a local park, in direct sunlight on the roof and in the studio, so that you can go out on location and capture great images.

Join Joel for this class as he goes through the basics of strobe lighting basics and how to use strobes to overpower the sun.

Once you learn the essentials of strobes, he will show you techniques on:

✦ How to use a neutral density filter and the combination of ambient and strobe lighting, to achieve a shallow depth of field.
✦ How to achieve an HDR 32-bit depth final image with ISO bracketing
✦ How to create a textured background for a character portrait and stitch it in Adobe Photoshop

Joel is an experienced commercial portrait photographer and a member of the Canon Explorer of Light team. Learn how to create iconic images of your own as Joel shares his extensive experience in the lighting world.

In 1984 Joel Grimes graduated from the University of Arizona with a BFA in Photography and soon established a commercial studio working out of Denver Colorado.
For over 27 years Joel has worked for many of the top advertising agencies and corporations across the globe for clients such as AARP, Abbott Labs, Archer Daniels Midland, Arizona Office of Tourism, AT&T, BC Lottery, Broncos, Comcast, Crown Royal, Febreze, Goldman Sachs, Hewlett Packard, Hyatt, Kodak, Naturella, Nikon, Pentax, Phillips 66, Philip Morris, Procter & Gamble, Pfizer, Qwest, Red Bull, Sony, Sturm Ruger & Co, United Global, USA Boxing, Visa, Volvo, and Xcel Energy. Over the years his assignments have taken him to every state across the USA and to over fifty countries around the globe.