Studio Quality, Anywhere: Mastering Portraits on Location (With Tea, Chaos & a Bit of Gaffer Tape)
Paul Wilkinson, Portrait Photographer
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Lecciones en esta clase
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Taking the Studio on the Road (and Hoping for the Best)
1:00
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What To Take? (And Why It’s Always Slightly Too Much)
7:30
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Setting Up: Backdrops, Brick Walls & Gaffer Tape Bravery
6:19
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Making The Most Of Your (Limited) Timee
4:06
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Hitting The Button And Keeping The Energy Up
4:16
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Using What Your Have As Props
4:23
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7.
Thank You
1:14
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What do you do when your studio lighting, comfy chairs, and reliable walls are a hundred miles away, and instead you’ve got a boardroom, a wobbly table, and thirty minutes to make magic?
Welcome to this course: a real-world, real-messy, real-fun guide to creating stunning portraits on location. Whether you're shooting execs in a high-rise or artists in a barn, I’ll walk you through exactly what to pack, how to light, and how to adapt your creative brain to whatever space you find yourself in.
You’ll learn:
- How to build a portable studio kit that actually fits on a train
- Lighting setups that work for corporate headshots, LinkedIn portraits, or editorial work
- How to assess a space quickly and make it work for multiple setups
- Creative ways to use natural light, tables, walls, windows — and yes, gaffer tape — to elevate your portraits
There’s storytelling, gear tips, posing advice, lighting diagrams (sort of), bad jokes, caffeine, chaos, and some beautiful images.
If you’ve ever wanted to deliver consistent, high-quality portraits without needing your full studio behind you — this one’s for you.
Come along. Bring your lightstands and your sense of humour. We’re taking the studio on the road.
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Paul is one of the UK's most sought-after portrait and wedding photographers - not just for his eye for an image but for the manner in which they are created (mostly laughing, always relaxed!)
His images have adorned numerous publications, from the BBC to The Times, and he has won countless awards, including the Fellowship of the British Institue of Professional Photographers.
He is a regular writer for N-Photo Magazine (the UNOFFICIAL Nikon Magazine), Professional Photo Magazine and Digital Photographer Magazine. He is the author of the book 'Mastering Portrait Photography) and hosts The Mastering Portrait Photography Podcast.
And if all that weren't enough, he is also a mentor, trainer and international print judge.
He and his team are ba... Ver perfil completo
Proyecto de clase práctica
Now it’s your turn!
The goal of this project is to create a portrait (or a small series) using a portable lighting setup — whether that’s in a boardroom, a barn, a bedroom, or just somewhere that isn’t your usual studio. The idea is to take the principles from the course and apply them wherever you happen to be.
Your challenge:
- Choose a space you don’t usually work in — an office, a client’s home, your hallway… anywhere that makes you think on your feet.
- Build a simple lighting setup using whatever modifiers, stands, strobes, or clever reflectors you have to hand. Keep it practical. Keep it portable.
- Take a portrait (or a few!) that feels like something you’d shoot in the studio. Bonus points if you adapt the room in a creative way — paper roll on the coat rack? White wall softbox? We love to see it.
- Upload your image(s) to the project gallery and tell us:
- What gear you used
- What challenges you faced (bonus points for chaos stories)
- How you solved them
- What you might do differently next time
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