1. We do our famous Wedding workshop the second week of September, every year!
The workshop is practical and we also do the theory from 9h00 to 13h00, which include, contracts, wedding questionnaire, samples of wedding pictures and when to shoot, marketing of yourself as a wedding photographer and storybooks. In the afternoon you will have the opportunity to take wedding pictures in a church, nature and the beach, of three model wedding couples. Charl Best will give personal instructions how to style, pose and light the wedding pictures with his experience of 4230 weddings behind him.
2. We do the Landscape workshop the first week of September, every year. We depart at 8h00 and will return at 17h00 the next day. We travel from Stellenbosch via Caledon, photograph the canola fields and sleep-over in the Klein Karoo. Next day we return via Hermanus and Kleinmond.
We supply the accommodation, reflectors, props, meals and transport. At our stay-over we will demonstrate how to do “the paint-with-light” techniques.
3. Studio Lighting workshop – January, July and November
A One day workshop to help you understand studio lighting equipment better and to set up your own studio. We will teach you more than twenty different lighting set-up’s to expose models, products and movement. We supply studio equipment and models.
4. Darkroom Workshop – January or June
You will learn how to develop film’s and to make handmade prints in our darkrooms. Nothing beats the feeling and quality of a handmade black-and-white print. Where you can get the seven tones in black-and-white and where your print will be guaranteed for 70 years. Two hours theory and halve day hands-on practical in the darkroom. Thereafter you can use our darkrooms for three halve days.
5. “Fine art” Fotografie werkswinkel. – Januarie or November
a Two day workshop that will give you the skills and technical know-how to give artistic expression to your photographs. You will be inspired to give new dimensions and attitudes to your pictures. Your pictures will never be the same again! You will be inspired through the workshops to let go and to experiment. You will specialize in the following:
The influence of art and digital manipulations, projections, bronne en inspirasie, persepsie van diepte, temas en visuele kommunikasie, abstrakte en realistiese beelde, dubbele beligtings en kombinasies. Prakties sal n fotosessie wees van n naakfiguur, abstrakte objekte, landskappe en dokumentere foto’s.
6. Fashion Photography and Styling.- December
This workshop over one day will teach you all that you need to know about the fashion industry.
How to shoot fashion and to style a fashion shoot. How to find a market for your work and how to work
with models and fashion editors. We will also cover make-up and hair techniques. Practical shoots will teach you more about studio lighting and how to shoot for catalogue, advertising and portfolio's.
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