Artistic Lighting in Dance : Master Class
Photo taken by workshop leader Emily Brunner
Crystal Lake, Illinois (20 miles northwest of Chicago) - March 8 & 9, 2025
The Pas de Deux Photo Artistic Lighting Master Class is designed to provide instruction from leaders Ron McKinney, Emily Brunner, and Francisco Estevez, as well as give attendees the opportunity to practice these techniques with dancers.
Ron, Emily and Francisco will spend time demonstrating their own personal style of creating artistic studio images with dancers. While much of the focus will be on their unique lighting styles, they will also be demonstrating how they work with dancers to get the best poses. We will also talk about lights and modifiers that we like to use.
They will also spend some time talking about their marketing to dancers, and the packages they sell to dancers.
Attendees will have multiple opportunities to practice what they’ve learned with photo shoots throughout the weekend with an instructor there to help with lighting, or to help with working with the dancer, as needed.
Saturday
9:00-11:00 am. Ron, Emily and Francisco demonstrate their style with lighting.
11:00-12:30 pm. Attendees practice shoots with 15-minute intervals.
12:30-1:30 pm. Lunch provided at studio.
1:30-2:30 pm. Gel lighting demonstration
2:30-5:00 pm. Attendees practice shoots with 15-minute intervals.
Master Class Schedule
Sunday
9:00-10:30 Marketing and Sales – Ron, Emily and Francisco
10:30-11:00 Using Fog – demo by Ron
11:00-12:30 Attendees practice shoots with 15-minute intervals
12:30-1:30 Lunch provided at studio.
1:30-4:00 Attendees practice shoots with 15-minute intervals.