Advanced Lighting
Tony L. Corbell
Course Description:
Understanding and controlling light quality is at the core of all of Tony’s presentations. Attendees will take a look at some of Tony’s most effective and successful pictures and learn how to see a unique perspective and not be afraid to push the limits of their experience and talents.
Corbell will discuss all types of lighting and its tools in depth. Lighting tools include portable flash, studio strobes, sunlight and ambient light. Lighting applications include additive, subtractive, reflective and transmission. Tony always spends time discussing Light Quality as well as Light Quantity and how Light Direction plays a significant role in the resulting mood of an image.
About The Instructor:
Tony has been involved in professional photography since 1979 when his first studio position was with his sister and her husband in West Texas. Since then he has moved through an almost inspired life that has included traveling and lecturing in more than twenty countries, has photographed three U.S. presidents, 185 world leaders at the United Nations, sports celebrities, Taco Bell menus, Kentucky Fried Chicken franchises, almost 800 brides and grooms, and a handful of NASA astronauts.
In 2010, Tony passed a major milestone having taught more than 500 seminars and workshops nationally and internationally. In 2008/09, Tony spoke to over 8,000 photographers in 36 cities including London, Glasgow, Dublin, Toronto, Vancouver, Mexico City, Sydney and many more U.S. cities. 2010 was again busy with Tony traveling teach photographic lighting and image workflow processes and practices. Always an active student and teacher of photographic education, his Basic Studio Lighting book from publisher Random House (AmPhoto) has been popular worldwide and is the basis for numerous photographic college lighting courses. Tony spent four years teaching at the internationally renowned Brooks Institute of Photography and his Location Lighting DVD produced by Software Cinema has received great reviews. Tony has written articles in every major photographic magazine in the U.S., Japan, the U.K., and China.
When asked what he is most known for he says, “being just about the biggest Beatles fan in the world.”
Awards and Recognition
1986 Texas Photographic Fellowship Degree
1988 California ITVA Best Educational Photographic Video Director
1994 PPA Photographic Craftsman Degree
1995 WPPI Accolade, Master of Photographic Excellence
1996 Brooks Institute Honorary Master of Science Degree
1998 WPPI Lifetime Achievement Award
1999 PPA Approved Photographic Instructor
2005 United Nations, IPC “Leadership Award”
2006 PPA National Award/California
2007 San Diego Commercial Photographer of the Year
2007 Invited Member of Camera Craftsmen of America
2008 San Diego Picture of the Year
2011 National ASP Associate Fellowship, Educational AwardImages:
