Summit Lighting
Location: Denver, CO
Dates: August 18-21, 2021
Deposit: $395 / Tuition: $1,595
Bring Your Photography out of the Darkness.
Take your photography to new heights with the nation’s top photo lighting experts. Learn how you can vastly improve your photography and make more money by incorporating lighting equipment into your shoots. Don’t just learn about the lighting equipment itself, learn how it can be used in several different settings and scenarios to create unique and desirable photos.
In this class, you will go on-location into the studio to learn simple/complex lighting setups for studio portraits, how to combine on-location and studio lighting techniques to make creatively lit action portraits and experimenting with light. The Lighting Workshop is for photographers of all skill levels, and lighting equipment will be provided.
What you’ll learn:
The Importance of Lighting in Photography.
Lighting Equipment, Equipment Setup.
High Speed Sync, Action and Sports Lighting.
Studio and Portrait Lighting.
Culinary, Bridal, Fashion, Athlete.
How to Make More Money with Lighting.
What To Know
The workshop classroom will be at the Springhill Suites in Downtown Denver.
A rental car is encouraged.
During the workshop you will have the opportunity to customize your experience based on what you hope to learn and which shoots are most interesting.
2021 WORKSHOP INSTRUCTORS
Dave Black
Workshop Faculty
A Nikon Ambassador and one of the pioneers in the conversion to all-digital photography, Dave Black is best known for his sports photography including covering Olympic games for more than 20 years for Newsweek. Constantly reinventing himself, he’s currently pushing new frontiers in combining lightpainting and western imagery, photography well suited for a gallery wall.
Joey Terrill
Workshop Faculty
Recently appointed as a Nikon Ambassador, Joey is a Los Angeles-based corporate and editorial photographer with a long and varied career in photography. In recent years Joey has migrated towards his passions for environmental portraits and studio/location lighting. A prior attendee of the workshops in the mid 1990s, he’s now a regular faculty member, with a talent for effectively communicating the principles of controlled lighting in terms anyone can understand. His portrait talents are regularly tapped by commercial clients as well as Rolling Stone, Sports Illustrated, People and other leading publications.
Jen Pottheiser
Workshop Faculty
Jennifer Pottheiser is a commercial photographer based in the New York area. Often photographing with athletes and entertainers, Ms. Pottheiser’s list of corporate, commercial and non-profit clients is a venerable Dream Team. She produces and shoots large scale projects for the National Basketball Association, United States Tennis Association and Memorial Sloan Kettering’s non-profit Cycle for Survival among others. Her images have appeared in countless books, publications and advertisements and her assignments have taken her throughout the world. Pottheiser’s campaign with Goodby, Silverstein & Partners for the National Basketball Association was recognized as one of the best print campaigns of the decade and her work has been acknowledged industry wide including recognition with a Communication Arts Advertising Annual and a Silver International Andy award.
JC Carey
Workshop Faculty - Nikon Professional Services
Joseph "JC" Carey is a dad, educator, traveler, troublemaker, and lifelong image maker. He lives in the NYC area and is the Nikon Professional Services representative for the Northeast United States. After retiring from the New York City Police Department, he had a lighting class bestowed upon him as a gift for his 33rd birthday. That gift changed everything. From someone that barely took pictures of people and knew nothing about lighting he dove headfirst into trying to figure out how to light everything. The last 14 years have passed with him being blessed with a daughter, a career doing what he loves, multiple magazine covers, and with meeting amazing people and trying to create great images of them. The art of photography and taking pictures is his passion but the ability to make a photograph and create his vision is what truly drives him.
Visit his Instagram @JCPhotoMedia
His website is www.jcphotomedia.com
Workshop Information & Itinerary
Workshop Highlights:
Professional Instruction on Lighting, Marketing, Working With Editors, and the Professional Photography Market
Premiere Networking Opportunities
Photograph a Variety of Subjects in Different Settings
Become Exposed and Comfortable With the Full Array of On/Off Camera Lighting
Spend Several Days With An Amazing Group of Likeminded Photographers
Costs Included In Tuition:
Activity Fees, Location Fees, Welcome Meals (details will be on your itinerary)
Not Included:
Hotels, Most Meals
Workshop Itinerary
LIGHTING WORKSHOP SCHEDULE
To view a PDF of an example schedule, PLEASE CLICK HERE.
Keep in mind, we are constantly updating to make every year better.
LIGHTING DAY 1
Registration
Will begin at approx. 3:00 P.M.
Tech Talk
Reception
Evening Presentation
LIGHTING DAY 2
Basic Lighting Instruction
Instructor Demo Shoot
Group Brainstorm, Sketch, Ideas
Student Work with Models
Instructor Presentation
Social Gathering
LIGHTING DAY 3
Upload and Q&A
Critique
Instructor Demo Shoot
Student work with models
Instructor Presentation
Social Gathering
LIGHTING DAY 4
Upload and Q&A
Critique
Instructor Demo Shoot
Student work with models
Instructor Presentation
Closing Dinner presented by Nikon
Ends at approx. 10:00 P.M.
