Rick Friedman

“Alternative & Creative Lighting”

… brought to you in part by

TAMRON

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR
Rick is a Tamron Pro and a Profoto Ambassador, and has been a photojournalist, portrait and travel photographer for over 4 decades. Based in Boston, he travels the world for numerous publications, corporations, advertising assignments and film and television productions. His published work has appeared in Time, National Geographic, Newsweek, New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Nature, USA Today, The Guardian, Der Spiegel, Stern, Discover, and on ABC, CBS, CNN NBC, Discovery Channel, Saturday Night Live, The Late Show and many other publications and productions around the globe. He has produced over 75 book and magazine covers and has worked on 20 film productions. Rick, known for his practical, creative lighting, has been teaching “Location Lighting” for the past 20 years. He has taught workshops at PhotoPlus, WPPI, Imaging USA, SWPP(London), Xposure (UAE), PPoC (Canada), White House News Photographers Association, CanAm Photo Expo, numerous PPA events, and many other workshops.

ABOUT THE CLASS
Do you want to create and light portraits that tell the story and capture the moment in any location or lighting situation? And do you want to learn how to do that with portability and speed? Then join the legendary Rick Friedman in this hands-on class, where you’ll learn about gear, lighting, and the importance of researching, posing, and interacting with your subject for the best outcome. You’ll learn to work with speed lights, both on and off-camera. How to mix them with available light. How to mix speed lights with large and small portable strobes. You’ll learn radio and trigger control techniques to fire the strobes and light meters. You’ll learn to work with soft boxes, octaboxes, diffusers, reflectors, Cinefoil, grids, snoots and other ways to control the spill of light. And you’ll learn different light painting tools and techniques, and how to ‘light paint’ models, both indoors and out. They’ll be lots of strobes, light modifiers, gels and light painting tools for everyone to use. Rick is an open book, and will help anyone with any questions about their equipment or any aspect of photography.

You’ll learn how to –

  • Capture the moment with perfect light
  • Work quickly to create that perfect light
  • Mix strobes and available light
  • Create unique looks while controlling your lights, adding color gels and smoke.
  • Project unique backgrounds
  • Light paint models


Students should bring:

  • Camera
  • Lens: 24-70, 70-200 or fixed lens in that range
  • Speed light(s) or strobe(s)
  • Tripod
  • Extra cards and batteries

class level – ALL