Lighting & Posing Hands-on Workshop by Rick Friedman - 3 hr

Join internationally published, award-winning photographer and photo educator Rick Friedman for an exciting hands-on lighting and posing workshop featuring live model photography.

Drawing from more than 50 years of professional experience, Rick will share the lighting techniques, creative tricks, and real-world knowledge that have shaped his legendary career. This interactive workshop is designed to help photographers of all skill levels gain confidence with off-camera lighting and portrait creation.

Participants will work with multiple Profoto speedlights and portable studio strobes while learning how to blend strobe and ambient light for dramatic and professional results. Rick will demonstrate how to shape and control light using softboxes, grids, umbrellas, reflectors, barn doors, color gels, patterns, and more. Creative effects using Smoke Ninja will also be incorporated into the session.

Don’t own lighting equipment? No problem. Rick will provide Profoto strobes, giving attendees a perfect opportunity to gain hands-on experience with professional lighting gear.

Known around the world for his popular “Location Lighting Workshops” — affectionately called “Lighting and Laughing” — Rick has taught thousands of photographers how to elevate their lighting skills while having fun in the process.

Spend a few hours learning from one of the best in the business, and walk away with new techniques, greater confidence, and stronger images.

Bio: Rick Friedman has been a photojournalist for over four 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, The New York Times, Nature, USA Today, The Guardian, Der Spiegel, Stern, Discover and many other publications. His photographs have appeared on CNN, ABC, NBC,CBS, Fox, Nightline, 60 Minutes, Saturday Night Live and in numerous documentaries. He has produced over 75 book and magazine covers and worked on 20 movies.
Rick has been teaching his "Location Lighting Workshops™" for the past 16 years across the US, UK, Canada and in the UAE. Rick has taught thousands of people his style of practical lighting. For locations and dates of upcoming events, please look on the "Workshops" page for dates and locations. Workshop sponsors have included Xposure, The Societies of Photographers, PPA, ASMP, Tamron, Savage Universal, Dynalite, PocketWizard, ExpoImaging, and Rosco. Rick presented his “Location Lighting Workshops™” on “Creative Live” appeared on B&H TV. and numerous photo podcasts.

Rick is a Profoto Ambassador and Tamron Pro. Rick is past president of the Boston Press Photographers Association. Rick is a contributor to PhotoFocus.com
Rick has photographed every U.S. presidential candidate from President Jimmy Carter to Joe Biden. His political photographs have appeared on the cover of Newsweek, The Village Voice, The Guardian Magazine, on 5 book covers and have been featured in Time, PDN and Professional Imagemaker. Rick has won awards from the American Society of Media Photographers, the National Press Photographers Association, and the Boston Press Photographers Association. He has had one man shows at Boston City Hall and the Boston Public Library in addition to having his work displayed in numerous other shows. Rick had 15 images in the juried show "Presidential Hopefuls in the 21st Century" sponsored by the Boston Press Photographers Association.

Rick has photographed several thousand authors, professors, scientists for publications and for major universities. His archives contain one of the largest private collections of portraits of noted academics.

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