Rock Photography: The Cover Shot and Photographing the Feature with Jeremy Saffer

Join us for one day and two topics!
TOPIC ONE- Rock Photography: The Cover Shot
YOU are tasked with creating an iconic cover photo of a band for a major music magazine. The lighting is set, your nerves are all over the place, you are laser focused. The band just left the dressing room and is on the way to your set. You have just 2 minutes with the band as they stop to shoot with you before they take the stage. What do you do? How do you get the shot?
Go behind the lens of Rock Photographer Jeremy Saffer as he shows how he would photograph a band in a real life photo shoot scenario, with a special guest band, then attendees take over and photograph the special guest band using what they learned.
TOPIC TWO- Rock Photography: Photographing the Feature
You just shot the cover with Rock Photography: The Cover… now it’s time to shoot the interior of the magazine, and, maybe some extras for the bands. What do you need to get for a successful cover feature magazine spread? Watch as Jeremy does quick set ups and quick changes to get as much variety as possible in the shortest time possible in order to get a successful feature set. Afterward attendees take over and photograph their own sets with the special guest band.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
Anyone with an interest in portrait photography and lighting will gain much from this program. Music photographers looking to get into music portraiture. Any photographers who want the chance to photograph a band using professional lighting in a studio setting.
WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW
Having a basic understanding of photography, camera settings, and being familiar with your camera is important but students do not need any prior lighting experience.
ABOUT OUR WEEKEND OF WORKSHOPS WITH JEREMY SAFFER
Rock Photography- The Cover Shot & Photographing the Feature is Day Three of our weekend workshops with Jeremy Saffer. Thursday is Business in Focus, Friday is Get the LED Out (LED Lighting only!), Saturday is Rock Photography: The Cover Shot & Photographing the Feature, and Sunday is Totally Tubular: Gothic Portrait Edition (featuring all Tube Lighting). If you would like to sign up for all four days at a discounted rate, make sure to choose the Four Day Option!
About Jeremy Saffer: Since 2004, photographer Jeremy Saffer has been making figures from the world of music, movies, and pop culture look iconic. Rightfully regarded as one of the most stylish and likable visual artists in contemporary media, he has crafted a recognizable, unique and fantastical range of styles that continue to dazzle in fresh and creative ways.
Utilizing his natural gift for alternative flair, it is Jeremy’s calling card to develop images and looks for clients that truly make the subject matter shine with star appeal and majestic imagery. For these reasons plus his likable, knowledgable personality, his portfolio extends to the covers and inside the pages of international publications such as Kerrang, Revolver, Metal Hammer, Alternative Press, Guitar World, Outburn, and countless other publications.
For a look at the caliber of entertainer who trusts Jeremy with their iconic imagery, you can look to the likes of hard rock and metal legends from Alice Cooper, Metallica, Slayer, Korn and Megadeth to contemporary heavyweights Slipknot, Avenged Sevenfold, Ghost, Bring Me The Horizon and more, movie and TV legends from A Nightmare On Elm Street, The Walking Dead, Hellraiser, A Clockwork Orange’s Malcolm McDowell and many, many more.
Saffer has been enlisted by both publications and the talent themselves, providing eye-popping album covers for the likes of Killswitch Engage and A Day To Remember, producing multiple A-list print series projects and gaining millions of YouTube views from music videos he has directed with In This Moment, Buckcherry, members of Rob Zombie and New Years Day and more.
On top of this elite tier talent list, for the past 10+ years, Jeremy has held seminars and workshops all across the United States encouraging droves of budding photographers and helping tomorrow’s visual artists develop a style of their own.
As you would expect for someone with such a dynamic and interesting style, Saffer extends to fine art photography with a litany of impactful and cinematic shots and scenes in his archive. His international back catalogue also includes hundreds of models and settings being used across a multitude of books, galleries, displays and art prints that have been sold all over the world.
The wealth of vision from his storied and unique career can be found in Jeremy’s latest project, The Daughters Of Darkness. A fearless and provocative hybrid of his iconic music photography and penchant for fine art, the project explores beauty within the macabre and features tributes to his love of black metal, doom and fantastical imagery. Daring to take his art into the furthest reaches of his imagination, this is sure to be a milestone in a career that continues to impress and expand into bold and brave new horizons.