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Using Fog, Haze and Atmosphere Effects to Enhance Lighting with Jeremy Saffer

July 11, 2025 @ 10:00 am - 6:00 pm

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Class Summary

Date & Time:

July 11, 2025 @ 10:00 am - 6:00 pm

Location:
Hunt's Photo Waltham
Featuring:
Learn different ways to make fog, haze, and smoke with creative lighting and a can of Atmosphere!
Co/Guest Instructor:
Rock & Celebrity Photographer Jeremy Saffer
Class size:
Up to 15 attendees
What to Bring:
  • Your camera (digital if you could please)
  • Any lenses you want to use
  • Feel free to bring snacks and water. There will be snacks on hand, but if you have any dietary restrictions please let us know
  • Bring an extra camera battery and freshly formatted memory cards
  • Anything you want to take notes with
  • As always, bring your enthusiasm and creative thoughts!
Recommended Prerequisites:
Having a basic understanding of photography, camera settings, and being familiar with your camera is important. Students must be able to operate their camera?s menu navigation and button system on their own. Knowledge of photography basics & understanding of the exposure triangle required. Students do not need any prior lighting experience
Misc:
ABOUT OUR WEEKEND OF WORKSHOPS WITH JEREMY SAFFER- This is one part of a three-day weekend of workshops with Jeremy Saffer. When signing up, you have THREE ticket options. You can attend the half-day session of this workshop, that will take place from 10am-2:30pm. If you add on the full-day option, you will have an additional 3 hours of shooting in the workshop. Either way, you will have plenty of time to shoot! 
And finally, if you want to take the full weekend of workshops, you will notice a discounted rate! Friday is Using Atmosphere Effects to Enhance Lighting, Saturday is Small Lights/Epic Portraits, and Sunday is Totally Tubular. Make sure to choose the Three Day Option!

If you are sick or feeling unwell, STAY HOME! We will gladly give you a partial credit towards a future workshop. Also, please note: We are requiring that ANY ATTENDEE with a cough MUST wear a mask for the health and safety of the attendees, instructors, and models.

Important Notes:
Video Recording is not permitted but taking BTS photos are fine
Policies:
Refund / Cancellation Policy

Refund Policy – Special Workshop

Certain special workshops, such as this one, are non-refundable. If you need to cancel more than 10 days prior, you can receive a 50% credit towards a class in the future. We do not offer credits within 10 days of the workshop.

For all cancellations, you must contact classes@huntsphoto.com prior to the event. If you register for a class and do not show up, your payment will be forfeited.

Join photographer Jeremy Saffer in a workshop focused on combining versatile LED lighting along with Atmosphere Aerosol to stunning in camera results.
Atmosphere, haze, fog, smoke: All different variations of the same effect that can be used minimally or in droves to dramatically change your lighting. Join Jeremy as he shows you different applications for canned fog to create extra atmosphere from blending colors with fog effects, to softening light using a blanket of haze, and drawing lines of pointed light sources to further illuminate lighting direction and so much more.
Added bonus! All students get a free can of Atmosphere to take home.

TOPICS COVERED

• The marriage of LED lighting and fog effect

• Why Atmosphere?
• Using haze as diffusion
• Using fog to mix color lighting
• Using point lighting with fog
• Photo examples and break downs.
ABOUT OUR WEEKEND OF WORKSHOPS WITH JEREMY SAFFER- This is one part of a three-day weekend of workshops with Jeremy Saffer. When signing up, you have THREE ticket options. You can attend the half-day session of this workshop, that will take place from 10am-2:30pm. If you add on the full-day option, you will have an additional 3 hours of shooting in the workshop. Either way, you will have plenty of time to shoot! 
And finally, if you want to take the full weekend of workshops, you will notice a discounted rate! Friday is Using Atmosphere Effects to Enhance Lighting, Saturday is Small Lights/Epic Portraits, and Sunday is Totally Tubular. Make sure to choose the Three Day Option!

SCHEDULE

10:00 a.m. – Intro to Jeremy Saffer
10:15 a.m. – Using Atmosphere Effects to Enhance Lighting
10:45 a.m. – Gear rundown
11:00 a.m. – Pre-shoot QnA with guest/band.
11:30 a.m. – Live Shoot: Jeremy photographs guest bands/models
12:30 p.m. – Live Shoot: Students photograph guest bands/models
2:30 p.m. – Wrap for the half-day group/break for extended shoot set up.
3:00 p.m. – Live Shoot: extended time/exclusive sets/student builds: Students get extended time and sets photographing guest bands/models – building their own set optional.
6:00 p.m. – Wrap

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 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.

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