Fashion photographer Alan M. Thornton leads this lively workshop on modern fashion photography. The first session will be a seminar on fashion basics, including an overview of different fashion genres, tools, and the fine-art of working with models and clients. Saturday will be a full day of shooting—working hands-on with lighting and a model to create “beauty shots.” Alan will discuss working with hair, makeup, and wardrobe stylists, and how to develop an eye for what’s “hot” and what’s not.

This workshop is a fantastic opportunity to learn fashion techniques from a pro while expanding your own visual repertoire.

Required prerequisite: Lighting Basics or instructor’s consent.

Students should bring SLR cameras and may shoot with film or digitally.

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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