Class Summary
November 6 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
- Bring your camera with a memory card.
Demons live in the shadow, not the light — your key is what you take away, not what you add. Push into low-key territory: hard, directional sources (a Fresnel snooted tight, or a light raked at a brutal angle) carving the face out of near-total black. Let split lighting cut a subject in half, one side devoured entirely by darkness. Underexpose the background until it disappears. The tension comes from concealment — a jawline suggested rather than shown, an eye lit while the rest of the face surrenders to shadow. This is chiaroscuro at its most aggressive: contrast so steep it borders on violence, an image that feels like something is being hidden from the viewer rather than revealed to them.
Photographer and Educator Bobbi Lane will discuss how to master “photographing demons” 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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