Experimental Portraiture with Jeremy Cowart

This guy is FANTASTIC. Creative and thinks outside the box. Totally had me rethink my shooting style. LOVE LOVE

OK its not the fastest moving course, but there is a lot of good content. JC is a guy who is more accustom to winging it for certain reasons that I can sympathize with so the speed was secondary to me... watching it while doing some editing on a personla shoot, I found certain portions of the course to be at worse confirming of what I believed, and other parts were a look at a different style of imaging, doing most of his work in camera and depending on photoshop as a last resort only. I believe one of the biggest truisms that came from the course was that commercial photography is exactly as you see it... Satandin and trial and error lighting attempts so that the actual subject is present for as littletime as possible, because most commercial portraiture subjects seem to have about 20 minutes less than you need and thats all you get.

Experimental portraiture is just that. Experimental. However, I don't feel that JC was properly prepared. Shooting a single person with a 2400ws pack is simply overkill, considering that he wanted to be shooting wide open. A fairly simple solution would have been to use a few sheets of Lee ND filter over the light head. I do suppose this was typical of any shoot. Especially a shoot that I'm doing.

I almost didn't watch this one. It was a little slow at first, but once JC get's going it's a fun ride. He transitions from using $2k strobes, to using just a few dollars for lighting. This course opens a lot of doors and shows that it's ok to go against the grain and to think outside the box. Lots of good ideas to see in this one!