This class is an intensive hands-on experience with advanced portrait lighting techniques. You’ll learn to think more creatively with lighting as you solidify your skills and build your portfolio in the process. If you have intermediate-level lighting experience but need more hands-on practice with a mentor by your side, this class is a great next step. Pro photographer Alan M. Thornton will show you how to up the ante on your lighting know-how with more advanced lighting schemes, multi-light setups, mixed-lighting scenarios, stop-motion techniques, and more.

The bulk of the class will be spent shooting, giving you plenty of time to build confidence with new gear and techniques. This workshop is an excellent opportunity to refine your technical skills and test out creative ideas with valuable, live feedback.

Required prerequisite: Intermediate Lighting or instructor’s consent.

Alan M. Thornton has been an advertising, editorial, and fine-art photographer for 16 years, working with such clients as John Deere, Land Rover, Nike, Apple, Hewlett Packard, and TV Guide, Improper Bostonian, Tasteful Magazine, and Santa Fean. His company’s current work involves classic and contemporary styled portrait illustrations for advertising and editorial clients that are captured on location or in the studio. His documentary work has been featured with Hewlett Packard, which earned him the Prestigious Photographer sponsorship, as well awards from The Center For Fine Art Photography and the IPA Merit Awards for his travel and documentary portraits.

Alan balances his professional photography career by working as a photographic educator, teaching workshops and courses around the world to new and established photographers. He has been teaching for six years at the Santa Fe Photographic Workshops in New Mexico, has also been on the faculty of the Hallmark Institute of Photography, Boston Universities Center for Digital Imaging Arts, and has offered courses at ICP in New York, and the CT Media Workshops in Connecticut. Alan is now an instructor for Newspace Center for Photography teaching lighting, pro-lighting, location portraiture, and business courses.

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