Workshop
Someone who knows how explains, while you shoot
A workshop is a shooting session with one or more models where the Master explains how the set was designed and the lighting schemes used, and shows how to direct the model. Many schemes to learn and good photographs to enrich the photographer's portfolio. Limited places: generally no more than 6 photographers per model.
Said more plainly: an experienced photographer explains to other photographers how a set is built and how a model is directed — and you are there, camera in hand, while he does it. You go home with photographs.
How a workshop goes
The set is ready before you arrive
Lights, background, setting: the Master builds the set beforehand, so the time you paid for is time spent shooting.
The Master explains what he did and why
How the set was designed and which lighting schemes are on: the set you have in front of you, explained while it is lit.
He directs the model in front of you
You watch a pose being built — where the light falls, where the shadow lands, what changes if the chin moves. It is the part you learn by seeing it happen.
Then you shoot
In turn, with your own camera. Few of you, so everyone gets the time and the room to work.
What you will find
You shoot with your own camera
Unless the event page says otherwise, every photographer uses their own camera and their own lenses — triggers, when needed, are provided.
Few of you, on purpose
Places are limited: generally up to 6 photographers per model, and in some workshops it goes down to 4. That way everyone gets their own time in front of the model.
Professional models
One or more, depending on the workshop. Which ones will be there is written on each event's own page, with their profiles.
They are yours to show
A release is signed for your personal portfolio — your site, your social profiles, photography magazines. Commercial use is agreed separately, and the model is credited by her stage name.
Workshops are meant both for amateur photographers at their first experience of this kind, and for professionals who want to widen their own portfolio. You are welcome with the camera you have and the experience you have.
What a workshop is not
Alongside the workshop there are other ways of photographing a model, and they get mixed up all the time. What makes a workshop a workshop is one thing only: the Master is teaching.
ShootJam
Private sessions on prepared sets: you choose the model, the time and the set. A Master is there only if you book one: the session is yours to run.
Read moreSeminars
In-depth meetings on the specific topics that characterise each Master. It is a classroom: you listen, you do not shoot.
Read moreModelSharing
Prepared sets where several photographers shoot the models available, under the Master's supervision — not as a teaching session. The Master is there, but he is not teaching.
Read moreWhat people ask before booking
It is my first workshop: is it for me?
Yes. Workshops are meant both for amateur photographers at their first experience of this kind and for professionals who want to widen their portfolio. You learn by doing, from the very first frame.
What do I need to bring?
Your camera and the lenses you normally use. Some workshops suggest something specific — a speedlight for fill-in, for example: it is written on the event page.
How many of us will there be?
Few. Places are limited and generally there are up to 6 photographers per model. Some workshops go down to 4.
Can I publish the photographs?
Yes, in your personal portfolio: your site, your social profiles, photography magazines and forums. Commercial use is agreed separately, and the model is credited by her stage name.
Is it nude photography?
Depending on the workshop. Some are portrait and glamour, others are fine-art nude. Each event says so on its own page, in the title and in the description. It is art photography, and it is always announced in advance.
Where do they take place?
All over Italy, in studios and outdoors, and inside the multi-day events. Upcoming dates are at the bottom of this page and in the calendar.
How do I book?
From the page of the workshop you are interested in. Registering on the site is free and it is what gets you told when a new date opens: sign up.
Upcoming workshops
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