Class Summary
November 7 @ 9:00 am - 11:00 am
- Bring your camera with a memory card.
Divas command the light rather than hide from it — think glamour portraiture, where a single dominant source sculpts the face with authority and glow rather than menace. Rim lighting becomes essential here: a hard edge separating the subject from the background, giving a halo of definition that reads as star power. A fill light is more generous than with harsher work — shadows are shaped, not erased entirely, so skin still has dimension, but nothing is left to devour the features. The pose and gaze do as much work as the light: the chin is lifted, a directness or knowing half-smile that assumes the camera is lucky to be there. It’s lighting as reverence — dramatic, but in service of magnetism rather than dread.
Photographer and Educator Bobbi Lane will discuss how to master “photographing divas” using classic techniques and modern lighting, using Fuji cameras and Nanlite lighting.
About Bobbi Lane
Bobbi Lane, a Fujifilm “X” Photographer, is an award-winning commercial photographer specializing in creative portraits on location and in the studio. Lane’s multi-faceted approach to photography incorporates over 40 years of technical experience with innovative artistic interpretation. Her corporate and editorial work includes corporate websites and hundreds of environmental portraits for a wide variety of magazines. As a dedicated photo educator, she brings insight and enthusiasm to her students in workshops held worldwide. She is widely known as the “Mistress of Light”, teaching portrait lighting techniques with both natural and artificial light. Combining her love of travel, photography and teaching, Bobbi also leads international photo travel workshops with her husband Lee Varis, such as Venice Carnival, Tuscany, Neighborhoods of New York and Scotland. Her dynamic workshops are always both education and entertaining!
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