The Works Studio: August 2010

Sunday, 22 August 2010

We are now nearly at the end of August, the summer has been fairly quiet at the studio, but now the summer holidays are nearly over we are planning the autumn and winter program. we have lots of great models lined up, for model's days, and some great courses, on Photoshop, wedding photography and studio lighting, not to mention a few parties. anyone one interested in what we are doing please get in touch.

Monday, 16 August 2010

We have our two-part "Become a Wedding Photographer" course starting in September the first part "On The Day" which covers all aspects of wedding photography from getting the work to taking the images, and includes a practical shoot with a bride and groom; is on Sunday 5th Sept, with the second part "On The Computer" which deals with all the post wedding processing on the computer and album building, is on Sunday 19th Sept, both days start at 10 o'clock and finish around 6 o'clock, the cost of each day is £225 or you can book both days for £400. price includes a buffet lunch and tea and coffee during the day.

Our other courses are

Sunday 12th Sept Studio lighting for Fashion and Glamour Photography £85 inc lunch.

and our five week photoshop evening class starts on Monday 6th Sept 7:30 til 9:30 £85 for all five weeks.

If you require more info please call the studio on 01480 301482 or email Martyn@The-Works-Studio.co.uk

Monday, 2 August 2010

We have added a new date the the program

Sun 26-Sep Working with Film photography & procession 09:30 - 18:00 £95

The program now looks like this:

Events, Workshops and Courses for Autumn 2010

Sunday Workshops inc Buffet Lunch
Sun 08-Aug Intermediate Photoshop 09:30 - 18:00 £85
Sun 22-Aug Studio Lighting Workshop 09:30 - 18:00 £85
Sun 12-Sep Studio Lighting Workshop 09:30 - 18:00 £85
Sun 26-Sep Working with Film shooting & procession 09:30 - 18:00 £95+++
Sun 03-Oct Studio Lighting Workshop 09:30 - 18:00 £85
Sun 24-Oct Studio Lighting Workshop 09:30 - 18:00 £85
Sun 14-Nov Studio Lighting Workshop 09:30 - 18:00 £85
Sun 05-Dec Studio Lighting Workshop 09:30 - 18:00 £85

+++ this price does not include the cost of film and paper but does include the cost of chemicals

Five Week Evening Courses Starting on:
Mon 06-Sep Intermediate Photoshop 09:30 - 18:00 £85
Mon 18-Oct Advanced Photoshop - for people photography 09:30 - 18:00 £85

Other Events
Sat 11-Dec Christmas Party - Bring a Bottle 20:00 - Late Invite Only

The Works Studio, St Ives, Cambridgeshire

The Works studio is a fully self contained photographic facility with much more to offer than just a large white studio box, we have meeting rooms, a very large room with a bar for teaching and meetings, that can also double up as two more studio areas. The studio is available for hire to professional and amateur users alike, whether you are a model, photographer, designer or make-up artist The Works is the perfect place to work. Hire charges start at £25 per/hour, with discounts for students and longer bookings over four hours.
The Studio area measures 30foot x 36foot with a ceiling height of nearly 20 foot, (This is no converted spare room or garden shed!) with a 16foot wide x 10foot high infinity cove with 10 foot deep floor providing nearly three times more space than the average colorama backdrop studio.

Our studio is quite different from many “glamour studios” that have been painted plain white. All white studios are great for some types of photography such as hi-key glamour and fashion, but it is virtually impossible to shoot lo-key art photography in one. Whilst hi-key lighting can easily be achieved in our studio with the use of lighting and polystyrene sheets. The same cannot be said for creating lo-key, lighting with hard shadows in all white studio. Quite simply, the light gets reflected off all the walls and kills any shadows.

At the Works studio we have carefully created the perfect balance of white infinity cove for fashion, surrounded with dark walls to allow shadows to be created and controlled. The studio is a converted 1930’s factory and we have left much of the old factory ‘feel’ in the building, we have not replaced the rather distressed old wood flooring with shiny laminate, and the walls have been kept in their original industrial condition, when you first come in to our studio you may feel the building a slightly dilapidated compared to the shiny new studios build in modern factory units, but as soon as you start to be creative the building comes to life, we do not have room sets, if you want to shoot in a bedroom set why not just use a real bedroom! If you are a ‘guy with a camera’ our studio really is not for you, however! if you are a creative photographer looking for total control of your lighting, then we feel we are the best studio around, we don’t just have big soft boxes, we also have specialist lighting such as 70cm beauty dishes with honey combs, and Quadmatic spotlights that can be fitted with gobos to create silhouettes and shadows, we have one of the latest Bowens ring flash pro. Or if you prefer we have a set of five 800w Photo Beard Redhead tungsten lights, and a RRB 1Kw broad light, ideal for recreating the 1950’s feel, from before the days of studio flash. If we were to liken our studio to anything we would say it’s more like something from the film ‘Blow Up’ than the rather phoney TV show ‘America’s next top model'
We understand many of our customers want to shoot on plain colour backgrounds, so if it's a colorama background you require we also have them, our system is fitted to our balcony allowing rolls to be changes safely and easily at waist height, (no going up ladders in this studio) at 8feet high the balcony overlooks the infinity cove so can be used to shoot down on to the cove area. Underneath the balcony is a fully equipped model's changing room with four make-up stations and the latest Iwata airbrush makeup system. The studio can be accessed either from the main entrance or directly through double doors from our large car park making it easy to unload heavy equipment or props directly in to the studio. Whilst the studio is not fully compliant with the latest disability access requirements, we have gone a long way to making all our facilities wheel chair friendly and we welcome disabled photographers.