Jean Shrimpton
Jean Shrimpton is one of the world's first supermodels, discovered by David Bailey and known as one of the highest-paid models of her time.
- Duration: 10 weeks
- Age limit: None
- Weekday / Weekend Course
Fashion Photography course allows students to study fashion photography both as a practical and cultural discipline. The course explores analytical and critical approaches to photographic imagery, together with the ideology, politics, and context of fashion.
You will learn the technical skills of photography, while exploring images from haute couture to street style, from advertising campaigns to designer look-books, from art gallery to shop window, and from fanzine to glossy magazine.
After finishing this course, our students also get 2 weeks studio membership to use our studio and equipment.
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Fashion Photography
Fashion photography, in the form of magazines, books, advertisement campaigns, billboards, and online media, has great influence. This course teaches the technical aspects of fashion photography while developing an analytical and critical view of global style and the fashion industry.
History of Fashion Photography
The precursors of fashion photography go back to the eighteenth century when images of fashionable clothes were printed in magazines and black and white pictures were often hand-colored. The rise of fashion magazines such as Harper Bazaar and Vogue helped bring fashion photography to the public.
VOGUE - bible of fashion industry.
Vogue has been published since 1892 and was one of the first magazines to print color fashion images. It helped launch some of the greatest fashion photographers.
Twiggy
Twiggy became an international fashion icon with a distinctive look that helped define the visual language of the 1960s.
David Bailey
David Bailey helped shape the youthful energy of British fashion photography through spontaneous, lifestyle-led imagery.
Edward Steichen
Edward Steichen is widely considered a founder of modern fashion photography, using carefully planned studio work to elevate fashion imagery.
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Introduction to Fashion Photography
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Studying Fashion
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Understanding Camera Functions
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Exposure
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Focusing
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Studio Lighting
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Rim Lighting
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External Light
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Effects and Shadows
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Studio Lighting
Studio lighting introduces students to controlled light, key and fill placement, contrast, shadow, and light direction for fashion portraits.
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Understanding Makeup
Students learn how makeup, styling, and facial features affect the fashion image, and how to coordinate looks with the model, stylist, and lighting plan.
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Studio Indoor Shoot
When one shoots inside a studio there are multiple factors to be taken into account. It starts right from preparations, setting up the lights, differentiation between multiple lights, choosing the key and fill, synchronizing these lights, using the right modifiers, etc.
Apart from using multiple lights, one has to learn how these lights work, how to diffuse the light if too much and how to cut the light to get more control over any specific region.
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Outdoor Shoot
Shooting in a studio and shooting outdoors are poles apart. Outdoors one has to balance available light along with external lights and modifiers.
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Posing
In fashion photography, models are required to create different poses according to the look and direction requested by the photographer.
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Grey Card
A grey card helps photographers adjust exposure and white balance consistently by providing a neutral reference point.
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Digital Light Meter
A light meter measures light and helps the photographer choose accurate shutter speed, aperture, and flash readings for controlled fashion lighting.
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Use of Reflectors
Reflectors do not create light; they redirect it. They are used to open shadows, add drama, or block light with the black side.
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Difference between Hard light & Soft light
Hard light creates distinct, sharp shadows, while soft light creates gentler shadows with smoother transitions.
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Use of different modifiers
Modifiers help photographers shape light through tools like beauty dishes, bowl reflectors, umbrellas, ring flash, softboxes, and stripboxes.
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HSS (High speed sync)
High-Speed Sync allows flash to be used above normal sync speed, helping balance dramatic ambient light with good model exposure.
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Outdoor Location Shoot
Students are taken on outdoor location shoots to learn commissioned shoot planning, brief execution, lighting, and modifier use on location.
