Bruce Smith Photography Workshops in France, Europe in 2021 and 2022.

Advance your photography skills to a professional level with the help of Bruce Smith on a 1-2-1 personally tailored master class, on an online fashion photography course or on one of our small group portrait, boudoir, nudes or fashion photography workshop on the Côte d’Azur, in France, Europe.

Learn how to shoot fashion, portraits, boudoir or nudes photography on these live hands on private 1-2-1 and small group photography workshops in France Europe with a pro photographer, author and educator Bruce Smith.

What you can expect to gain from your photography training with Bruce Smith.

Your confidence in yourself will grow along with your new skills and photographic technical

Being a professional image maker is not just about photographic kit, cameras and lighting etc, you need some important personal skills to be able to create competent images that full fill a clients expectations. 

Your learning process is operated like a professional client shoot production so you learn to shoot like a pro.

You will develop these important technical and personal skills during all of my photography training programs, whether you take a group fashion, portrait or nudes photography workshop, or if you decide to take a private 1-2-1 photography master class or a personal mentoring programs with me.


* Why you need to communicate through your images.

* Openness to empower your subjects willingly

* Communication with your team and your clients

* Direction to add stories to your images

*Controlling all aspects of your shoot.


Apart from the above we will cover digital workflow, camera and lighting techniques, being able to manage a days shoot also understanding the necessary language that portrays professionalism to all around you.

INTERESTED TO TAKE YOUR PHOTOGRAPHY TO A HIGHER LEVEL? 

Get booked onto one of my photography workshops today.

The most extensive wedding, portrait, fashion and fine art nudes photography workshops in the country!  

Covering the photography business, planning your shoots, lighting techniques, creative and digital workflow processes from one of the world’s top creative photographers with over 40 years as a published professional photographer. 

Call Bruce today on +33 7 68 79 89 89 to talk about your photography workshops requirements.

And to shoot, light and master instinctive shooting, Bruce’s unique method of creating his own images in camera during these live photography workshops that you can not learn from youtube videos, photography books or online photography workshops etc. 

Read a students testimonial further down this page.

Photographers personalised mentoring programs, photography courses, photographers 1-2-1 workshops in fashion, nudes, portraits or wedding photography, photography master classes, online fashion photography courses in how to shoot better weddings, fashion photography, portraiture photography, or nudes photography, in Bordeaux, Paris, Monaco and London.

We have four workshops scheduled in at Chateau Fengari creative retreat near Bordeaux during 2020, wedding photography workshop in France, portrait photography workshop in France, fashion photography workshop in France and nude photography workshop in France.

Photography training that will give you professional photographic skills edge to compete with other photographers.

Call Bruce today on +33 7 68 79 89 89 to talk about your photography workshops requirements.

 

A little about what we cover during your personalized one 2 one photography training master classes, online fashion photography courses and group photography workshops.

 
  • Increasing your level of openness which affords people to be willingly empowered by you to achieve your objectives with your images. 

  • Building your understanding of why high quality photography technique is needed to create images that full fill a clients expectations.

  • Ironing out any technical problems you maybe having as well as helping you to understand why you need to communicate through your photography. 

  • Communication with all involved in the creative team that are helping you to produce professional level images.

  • Teaching you the photography language and terminology that will make those that hear you will respect you for your professional approach. 

  • Being in control of every aspect of your photography shoot production helps your confidence in your self and your abilities.

A look inside a location fashion photography workshop in Malaysia.

by portrait photographer in France
portrait photography workshops 2020 in France

It was far too cold to shoot that day but my model was so brave and willing to do anything to get the picture (Thank you Katy) I was not prepared to make her suffer so I shot very quickly but the result of my shooting technique speaks for itself. 

Nude model in available light on the rocks create during my nude photography workshop France
Nudes photography workshops 2020 in France

Another couple of my images shot with my instinctive shooting technique, first shot was shot on Malibu beach, the second shot was under a tree in Richmond Park, London.

A portrait photographer in Bordeaux, in Monaco, in Eze Village, on The Cote D'Azure and on The Riviera
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"Getting it right in camera"

I am sure that you have all heard of the above expression many times.

 

When I say to get it right in camera, I take into account:

1. Photographic technique: correct exposure, good lighting for the subject, sharpness, depth of field, correct white balance etc.

2. Framing and composition: I do not like to crop my images unless I am shooting for a specific publication or layout that dictates the framing proportions. 

So I put a lot of effort into how my image is framed, understanding the leading lines of the viewers eye, a good balance of objects (subject) and negative space ( background), is the image for a left hand page or a right hand page or maybe it needs to be for a cover.  

I will always give my client a variety, full length, bias left, bias centre, bias right, the same with three quaters and close up shots.

Why is it so important for me to “Get it right in camera”

The reasons I want to get right in the camera is firstly that a technically correct image is a solid base that I strive for for all of my personal and my client photographic shoots images. A major point to make clear at the start. “I am a photographer not a digital artist or technician”.

My reasons for being a photographer are that I love to wright with light, I also love every aspect of setting up a shoot, expressing various aspects of emotion, feelings, energy, communication with my subject, expressing myself through my images.

For me if I have not achieved what I desire to see in the final image at the time of shooting no amount of post production is going to add that special magic dust to my images.

During my training to be a photographer our technical objective was to achieve a grade 2 negative (a negative that would give an acceptable print with a good white, a good black and a good range of tones in between.

Or a correctly exposed image with as much detail in the highlights and shadows as was possible under the lighting conditions that we had or we manipulated the light to bring the brightness range to fit the technical limitations of the film and or processing.

This was before we get to the image content, framing, composition etc. A good building block for creating technically good images that I still adhere to today.

A good in camera image gives you a good solid starting point to build the final image from, a weak image in camera will always be a weak image and will likely cause a host of problems that need to be corrected to make the image an acceptable final image.

I for one do not have the time to do 2 hours of post production on my images. 

I am also finding it hard to make clients pay for the time that it takes to adjust all of the little things that were not thought about when shooting such as creases in dresses, colours that were not quite right etc, correcting or adjusting aspects of the model, skin colour texture a little curve to be pulled in a bit here or there.

Of course an other excellent reason for achieving good images in camera is the time and effort saved in post production. 

I like nothing better than creating images that all I need to do is a a small amount of curves to lift the contrast, some times if I am converting to black and white I desaturate and add a little colour layer and thats it. 

Pretty much the same choices as when finishing images in the darkroom with the choice of film stock, film developing process, choice of photographic paper and developing process.

My digital black and white:

Select an image that will convert well to black and white or shoot with this in mind i,e with good contrast, simple composition and good exposure values.

1: Desaturate the image.

2: Increase contrast using curves until there is still highlight and shadow detail.

3: Add a solid colour layer, (I choose an amber colour,)

4; Select hard light

5: Reduce opacity to c25 to 75% (depending on your subjective choice.)

6: Back in curves adjust contrast to taste.

You can decide to this as adjustment layers to save any degradation of the image.

The image right was shot on film in 1983

When I first started out as a photographer way back in the 1980’s we did not have the post production program photoshop. 

Back then if images needed to be retouched it was a very expensive process that your average client would not pay for, it was only the big advertising agencies or top magazines that would spend the money on retouching and composite image manipulation.

So when shooting for clients we had to “get it right in camera” which meant, good lighting, good photography technique such as exposure control. 

It also meant finding models that had good skin, healthy hair a good figure right for the shoot whether for fashion, beauty, swimwear, lingerie etc etc. 

It also meant the make up artist also had to be very good to so we could not rely on anything to correct our mistakes or alter reality.

I can remember back in the early 2000’s hearing the art director of a client I was shooting a bridal wear collection for saying the words, don’t worry about this or that we can fix that it photoshop. 

The statement shocked me, after all of my years shooting and making sure every aspect of the images was right, which I may add takes time and attention to detail.

This was the beginning of the downward spiral of photography.

I am doing my best to keep my photography pure and not to rely on fancy footwork in photoshop or add ons, plugins etc etc to achieve my images.

If you feel the same as me regarding this and are interested in learning the true art of photography, get back to me or check out my fashion, portrait or nudes photography workshops which are all based around “Get It Right In Camera” not we can fix that in photoshop or as said by someone that teaches fashion photography workshops, 

“The magic of the photographic  image begins in post production” 

I nearly died when I hear this.

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Personalized photography training 1 to 1, online fashion photography courses and small group photography workshops in Europe that suit your learning expectations.

 

Hosted by Bruce Smith on The Côte d’Azur, The South Of France or at Chateau Fengari, near Bordeaux in France, Europe



A sample program that Bruce recommends:


A; Read Bruce‘s book, Fashion Photography A Complete Guide available on Amazon.

B; Sign up for Bruce‘s Online Fashion Photography Course.

C; Get yourself booked onto one of Bruce‘s small group photography workshops to be held in 2022. There will be a total of 8, 2 day weekend photography workshops, 2 in Spring, 4 in Summer and 2 in Autumn, all held in The South Of France in how to photograph professional level fashion, fine art nudes, boudoir portraiture or contemporary portrait photography. These photography workshops are limited to 8 photographers.

D; Take a 1-2-1 Photography Master Class in the genre of photography that you wish to specialize in. You can arrange a 1-2-1 photography master class any time that Bruce is available. There are only 12 places available during the year.

E; Register for a photographers mentoring program personally with Bruce, created especially to suite your chosen genre of photography. Bruce only accepts 6 photographers to mentor during the year.


Contact Bruce today with your photography training expectations and he will create a program tailored to your objectives.
Book early and save.

If you book and pay in full more than 3 months in advance we will give you an early bird discount of 15% off the listed prices. Message us to take advantage of this deal.

Spread the fees out.  

If you wish to book and to pay in three monthly instalments you have to book at least 3 or more months in advance. Message us for further information about spreading out the photography workshop costs.

 
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Dear Bruce

It was really good hearing from you, I appreciate the time you put into the feedback. I believe you have helped get me to focus in on a few important details!

I’m quite exited about all of this, since your e-mail which coincided with my reading of a few fashion photography articles.

I think you have opened my eyes to a fresh perspective, well it’s more of the ritual of thinking through, planning, and the development of consistency in a story / message, which is funnily enough the backbone structure for what I do as a brand director in Leo Burnett, even though it’s not creative that I’m involved in, it’s the same concept.

Once again, thanks a million for your support, it means quite allot.

Firas (Location Class Dubai)

 

Dear Bruce

In September 2015 I joined you a Chateau Fengari near Bordeaux, France for a four-day, one-to-one fashion and fine art nudes photography workshop.

In the words of a student of one of your wonderful fashion photography workshops and fine art nude photography workshops. 

“Some things you just can’t learn from fashion or fine art nude photography How To Shoot Books, Youtube Videos or DVD’s”

I could have bought all the fashion and figure photography books on Amazon, and not learned what I did in a few days with you, which you yourself have learned from decades of successful work in the industry.  

Many thanks for all of the insights.

Will

An outline of the shoot days of these photography workshops schedule.

09.00 until 10.00: Introductions and tea/coffee

10.00 until 11.00: Briefing the team

11.00 until 12.00: Shooting the first studio set up

12.00: until 13.00: Shooting the second studio set up

13.00: until 14.00: Lunch

14.00: until 15.00: Shooting the third studio set up

15.00: until 16.00: Shooting the fourth studio set up

16.00: until 16.30: Editing your images for layout

16:30 until 17.00: Image review. The group will come together at the end of the day to review everybody’s images.

08.30 until 09.00: Meeting up at the our location

09.00 until 10.00: Briefing for the days location shoot

10.00 until 11.00: Shooting the first location set up

11.00 until 12.00: Shooting the second location set up

12.00: until 13.00: Shooting the third location set up

13.00: until 14.00: Lunch

14.00: until 15.00: Shooting the fourth location set up

15.00: until 16.00: Shooting the fifth location set up

16.00: until 16.30: Editing your images for layout

16:30 until 17.00: Image review. The group will come back together to review the images that each student has shot over the course of the weekend, and to summarise the learning that has taken place.

 

Please note that the course contents may alter slightly,; a more detailed breakdown will be provided on booking.

Are these photography workshops for me?

Intermediate, advanced and beginner photographers, ideally who already understand the basic aspects of photography and would like to get into the portrait, fashion or wedding photography business.

If you are already shooting professionally and would like to improve some new genres of photography then these workshops, course, master classes and photographers mentoring programs will help you to be more effective, creative and profitable.

A DSLR or mirrorless camera and speed light(s) are essential. It is expected that attendees should know the basics of photography such as aperture, shutter speed, ISO, white balance, metering, focusing, etc. 

If you do not yet understand the basics, we recommend that you read up a little before the workshop. For the digital workflow part, you will need a computer with Bridge, Photoshop and Lightroom installed as well as a working knowledge of each.

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