This summer we are introducing an exciting new event and bringing back a couple of old favourites. New on our itinerary is the Mini Photo Adventure. Photo shoots are more than just about taking photographs – it’s the whole experience of being there. Check out below for more details.
Making a come back are our famous Critique Evenings which are so good for getting proper feedback from. Oh and we’re doing a powder paint workshop…
Lots to get your teeth into. Enjoy!
Best wishes
Michael 🙂
This workshop is all about colour, energy and vibrancy. Try out some new lighting and prop techniques to create some stunningly beautiful imagery. This is a rare chance to work with one of the best models in the East Midlands – Fiona Manneh. Fiona’s skin tones gives us a totally different spin on how we work with colour and the results can be devastatingly awesome. And she has a figure that defies nature. We don’t know how she does it as she can eat more than Michael and that’s no mean feat! This is a great and rare opportunity to create some uniquely striking images.
Date: Thursday June 28th
Time: 6pm-10pm
Venue: Michael Lau Studio
Cost: £65.00
Throw powder paint at a model? Who wouldn’t want to do that?!? But there is method to our madness. By careful use of lighting and timing we can create some awesomely beautiful images. And we might even throw in a bit of smoke….
Each image created is unique as it is impossible to get the same photo twice. This shoot is a firm favourite because it’s creative, messy and a whole lot of fun!
All this and you don’t even have to clean up afterwards. What more could you ask for?
Date: Tuesday July 3rd
Time: 6pm-10pm
Venue: Michael Lau Studio
Cost: £75.00
We’re all trying to create spectacular and unique images, and our job is to provide you with opportunities to do just that. Dance is a popular theme with a lot of photographers but our mantra is that when we do something, we do it BIG! To this end we have enlisted the services of Scarlett Fox – model, dancer and one of the best around at both, and James Green – Free Runner, Parkour expert, capable of leaping tall buildings in one bound. Put these two together and you know we’re going to end up with something very spectacular. Both specialise in getting big air, both are extremely photogenic. Our job is to capture them in ways that do them justice.
Trust us when we tell you that this is going to be a very special evening.
Date: Thursday July 12th
Time: 6pm-10pm
Venue: Michael Lau Studio
Cost: £80.00
Another one of our events that’s making a comeback is Critique Evening! This is a very useful way of getting genuine, helpful, constructive criticism of your images. All you have to do is to submit 5 images to project onto a big screen and we offer our critique – what’s good, what’s bad and how to push forward. These evenings have proved to be very positive and it’s great for ideas, inspiration and a general soundboard for your photography. And if that’s not enough – all proceeds goes to Rainbows hospice who we’ve always supported with this event.
To sweeten the deal even further, anybody who attends this evening will get a £10 discount on any standard workshop they purchase. So if you come to my workshops anyway, you help a very good cause essentially for free! Can’t say fairer than that!
Date: July 18th
Time: 6pm-9pm
Venue: Michael Lau Studio
Cost: £10.00
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This concept came from over hearing a conversation about the merits of Photoshop. It went something along the lines of ‘You don’t have to shoot on location – just photograph the model on a plain background and photoshop them into an image of the location’. Now whilst we do embrace photoshop and post production in general, we also believe that photography is more than the final image. Every shoot is a process of putting together and executing concepts which often take a lot of planning, organisation, logistics, putting your team together etc. – culminating in the final shoot. Well that’s half the fun isn’t it? The excitement of getting to the location, meeting your team and then the shoot itself. When it works well there are few things more satisfying. As Hannibal (Smith not Lecter) used to say “I love it when a plan comes together”.
What our ‘photoshopper’ missed the point on was the whole experience of a full on shoot. You know the old saying – “Life is not about the destination – it’s about the journey”. That’s what we’re talking about.
So Michael wants to re-create a shoot he did 10 years ago. A shoot he says is still one of the most memorable of his career.
The goal is to arrive at the breathtakingly beautiful Quantoxhead Beach, Somerset at zero dark thirty to shoot a fashion/portrait set just as the sun rises. To do this we will journey down to Bristol the night before to rendezvous with our models and set up base camp in our accommodation. After as much sleep as we can get we will travel to the beach and commence with our shoot. At that time of the morning Quantoxhead beach is beautiful and quiet, it’s really quite breath taking. Our window of opportunity is actually quite small, we’ll probably have less than 2 hours or so of the fabled golden hour light (depending on the weather). Therefore after that, the plan is to get breakfast before heading towards the very picturesque Bristol or Bath to do more shots with our model before returning home in the afternoon.
The cost includes accommodation, 2 models, make up artist, travel (return trip from Nottingham).
So are you up for a photo adventure?
Date: 22nd-23rd August
Venue: Quantoxhead Beach, Somerset & Bristol/Bath
Early Bird Price if you book before 4th July – £275.00
Price after 4th July – £375.00
