Creative Live Portrait Lighting Master Class 09.20.14

Commercial Portrait Lighting Master Class with Brian Smith

If you’ve ever wanted to be a fly on the wall on one of my editorial or corporate portrait shoots, here’s your chance to watch in real time! This will be a Live shoot – no pre-produced keynote – capturing portraits of the people who bring you CreativeLive. Hear why I choose each location, watch me light each shot on the fly and post-processes a few of our favorite portraits from the shoot.

Watch CreativeLive on September 20, 2014 from 1:15-4:30PM Pacific / 4:15-7:30PM Eastern or live in your time zone around the globe or Upgrade to on-demand access for just $29.

CreativeLive-Photo-Week-2014Once a year CreativeLive brings together the world’s best and brightest photographers to bring you the industry’s most epic online photography conference: Photo Week. I’m psyched to join an All-Star group of instructors including Peter Hurley, Sue Bryce, Jeremy Cowart, Lindsay Adler, Kevin Kubota and my Kiwi brother Colin Smith to wrap up CreativeLive Photo Week 2014 with this very unique Master Class!

Featuring engaging master classes, gear and software demos across three live channels, CreativeLive Photo Week has classes that appeal to everyone from the enthusiast to the veteran pro. Each Master Class offers a powerful blend of education and information – with insights on the techniques, concepts, and business insights you need to transform your work.


You can watch unique content track on each of three live channels – CreativeLive Photo Week has a channel dedicated to engaging master classes, another to gear and software demos and a third broadcasting informative how-tos. You’ll find content for everyone from the enthusiast to the veteran pro. Tune-in and give your skills a serious upgrade with training on: commercial, real estate, interior, Instagram, film, outdoor and wedding photography. There will also be plenty of training on post-processing, lighting and gear – including the very first pre-production Sony FE 16-35mm F4 Zeiss lens in the country.

Sony FE 16-35mm ZA lens
Sony FE 16-35mm f/4 ZA OSS Lens

We’re tethering our CreativeLive shoot using the brand new Capture One Pro for Sony – it’s the best $30 that I every spent on software.

Here’s my Gear List for my Commercial Portrait Lighting Master Class at CreativeLive Photo Week 2014

CreativeLive Photo Week 2014 All-Access Pass for just $199. Get all 6 days of non-stop photography education from gear demos to master classes with your passport to all-things-photo will inspire and educate and leave you electrified and ready to explore whole new territories through your camera lens.


CreativeLive Photo Week 2014 – 50 Courses for $199

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2 thoughts on “Creative Live Portrait Lighting Master Class 09.20.14”

  1. I love creative live photoweek. I can’t wait to watch your part of it, our company doesn’t do studio photography yet, but I am anxious to learn anything I can for when that time comes.

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