Making my project of teaching photography to children in Africa a great success

 At last after 16 years working on this project its about to begin

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In November 2017 I will be traveling to Zimbabwe for the first leg of my teaching children in Africa photography project so they can express their lives through their own eyes with pictures taken by themselves. And hopefully in the future setting a permanent photography school that provides photography training on a scholarship basis to children from all over Africa.

If you are interested in more detailed information please contact me directly via the message link below.

How you can help make this project a success

I am looking for sponsors to help towards the expenses for this trip and for sponsors with digital cameras and some practical equipment needed for the project. If you are in a position to help in any way get in touch via the direct message link below.

 To raise the initial expenses for this trip I will be creating portraits of the attendees of a Qoya retreat being held in Zimbabwe whilst I am there in November 2017 but as you can imagine this will only cover a small part of the cost. See how you can help below.

Making a cash donation

You can donate money, any amount that you want, every little bit helps. There will be a rewards scheme as a thank you for your donations that are above £10 by way of gifts of limited edition prints or books with images taken during the project as well as vouchers to the value of your donation towards my photographic workshops, courses and master classes tuition fees.​

Help by booking a fashion photography shoot or booking photography training

If you book me for a fashion shoot or private portrait session or you book me for a two day one 2 one photography master class, I will donate 50% of the tuition or shoot fee that you pay towards this first trip to Africa.  Please share this with any body that you think would like to get involved.

Message me directly about how you can help:

Many thanks for reading this, I am really looking forward to hearing how you can help.

 

Bruce Smith

An interview about Bruce’s latest fine art photography book “130k Words In Pictures”

For decades Bruce has produced amazing work as a commercial fashion photographer and shooting editorial fashion magazine stories all over the world, including some of the most popular and recognized celebrities and fashion brands in couture, bridal wear, lingerie and swim-wear.

 Inspired by the phrase, a picture is worth a thousands words, Bruce went through his archive of images to produce a new fine art book “130k Words In Pictures”, a collection of 130 of his best and most iconic photographs. Listen to an in-depth interview with Bruce about the images published in his latest fine art photography book.   More fashion photography books published by Bruce Smith

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Buy the iBook version of “130K Words In Pictures”

Bruce loves to create sensual, artistic nude and erotic boudoir portraits

Private commissions for erotic fantasy photography shoots, fine art, boudoir portraiture and nude portraiture sessions can be arranged directly through Bruce or through his art agent. 

Read about Bruce’s erotic, boudoir, nude and fine art portraiture photography sessions.

Photography courses, master classes and workshops in how to shoot better fashion, portraits and fine artistic nudes photography

Bruce is the creative director of The Bruce Smith Photography Academy teaching fashion and fine art nude photography private one 2 one master classes, fashion and fine art nudes courses and workshops.

The above image was taken during one of Bruce’s location swim-wear fashion photography workshops in Malibu, California. Many thanks to California Sunbounce for the amazing location lighting kit, reflectors and Sunswatt diffusers.

A fashion and nudes photography workshop students comments:

One of the shrewdest investments I’ve made in my fashion photography training was a residential fashion photography workshop with the fashion photographer Bruce Smith, author of Pro Digital Fashion Photography and Black and White Plus A Little Bit Of Colour.

Inspired by ground-breaking fashion photography greats like Cecil Beaton, Norman Parkinson, David Bailey, Horst P. Horst, Irving Penn and Richard Avedon, Bruce is a master of location, light and story-telling – and is especially known for his great directing rapport with models.

I booked his fashion photography workshop as the ultimate ‘sink or swim’ experience – to stretch my skills to the limit and find out what I could really achieve under pressure, and in the company of other students who I suspected would have far more experience (and kit!) than me. (And they certainly did!)

A fashion photographer in Paris, the fine art and erotic boudoir and nude portrait photographer, the portrait photographer, the headshot photographer and the photography educator, Bruce Smith

Bruce Smith, one of the worlds top international published fashion, celebrity portrait and beauty photographers, based in Europe mainly shooting in Paris, Bordeaux, Monaco and London. Fashion and fine art photographer gallery.

 Bruce is also a fine art nudes, erotic and boudoir nudes portrait photographer that shoots his fashion, fine art and fashion nudes photography on location around the world or in studios in and around Paris, Bordeaux, Monaco and London. His favorite place to both shoot and hang out is by his Paris studio in Abbess and the coffee houses of Montmartre.

Specialist genres of fashion photography are haut couture, high fashion, bridal wear designer gowns, swim wear, lingerie, portraiture, celebrity portraits, head shots and high fashion. He has photographed many celebrities, super models and fashion models on fashion photography assignments in Paris, London, Milan, New York and all over the world.

Producing fashion shoots at many exotic locations from Alaska to Thailand for advertising campaigns, fashion magazine editorials,  look books and catalogues, for fashion designers, couture designers, bridal wear designers, lingerie and swim wear designers and manufacturers.

On most, if not all of Bruce images, he uses very little if any Photoshop retouching, his objective is to get it right in camera.  His secret? good skin, good model, good lighting. good photography.  Brought up shooting film and never uses the term “we can fix that in post” a poor excuse for bad photography.

“Creating photographic images of people with impact, feelings, movement and a believable story obvious in the images is not just about the cameras, the lenses, the lighting kit, photographic techniques and the photoshop retouching you use”

Images that leave the viewer with feelings of seeing into and believing in the story created by the photographer and his or her creative team takes a great deal of personal and technical skills.

The best way to learn these personal and technical skills needed to create amazing images of people is to learn these skills directly during live classes, courses or workshops with a people photographer that already achieves what it is that you want to achieve in your own images.

Interested in learning more about these facts, check out the one 2 one photography training in shooting fashion and fine art nudes with published fashion and fine art photographer Bruce Smith the author of several best selling books on how to shoot fashion plus books of fine art nudes, portraits and fashion photography.

 

 

My New Book Of Fine Art Fashion Nude And Portrait Images

 

READ MORE ABOUT ONE 2 ONE PHOTOGRAPHY TRAINING WORKSHOPS COURSES AND MASTER CLASSES IN CREATING FASHION AND OR FINE ART NUDE IMAGES

Fashion Photography Workshop On Location

One of the shrewdest investments I’ve made in my photography training was a residential workshop with fashion photographer Bruce Smith, author of Pro Digital Fashion Photographyand Black and White.

Inspired by ground-breaking greats like Cecil Beaton, Norman Parkinson, David Bailey, Horst P. Horst, Irving Penn and Richard Avedon, Bruce is a master of location, light and story-telling – and is especially known for his great directing rapport with models.

I booked his workshop as the ultimate ‘sink or swim’ experience – to stretch my skills to the limit and find out what I could really achieve under pressure, and in the company of other students who I suspected would have far more experience (and kit!) than me. (And they certainly did!)

Working with Bruce in a live shooting scenario at privately-owned stately home Prestwold Hall, with top designers, couture fashion pieces and a pro team of models, styling, make-up and hairwas a real eye-opener for me into the planning and mechanics of a successful commercial shoot.

Bruce is an expert in how to put together and manage a productive, creative team.  His 35 years of experience in the industry have taught him how to bring all the elements together and plan ahead, but then to think on the fly and solve problems quickly and efficiently when things (inevitably) do not go quite as expected.

I learned so much on this workshop – identifying all the gaps in my knowledge.  Finding my own weak spots helped me to gain hugely in confidence, as I knew what areas to work on in the future to help me improve.  The most important thing was to trust in myself and have faith in my ideas.

I proved to myself that it is definitely not all about the kit, when my shots were picked up and published by designers Sparklewren, Jacq Brill, and Chantal Mallet and selected by Belinda Chorley of Beyond Burlesque to feature in an ad in Brides Magazine.

It was so exhilarating yet nerve-wracking to be stretched, working alongside other photographers with so much more experience than me.  I have continued to be inspired by the meteoric career progress of fellow students including Brazilian-born glamour photographer Eveline Bueno, Brighton & Hove wedding photographer Vicky Lamburn and Kuwait-based beauty photographer and retoucher Adnan Kamal.

Bruce’s tips on idea generation, location scouting, shot-planning, set lighting, vibe creation, flow-posing and rapport-building come with me on every shoot I’ve done since.

Find out more about his unique workshops at the Bruce Smith Academy.

Mixing daylight and flash together for a fashion photography location shoot.

How it is done two:

Deconstructing Paris fashion photographer, Bruce Smith’s fashion photography lighting techniques.

How I created the fashion photography lighting technique for shooting natural looking  artificial light mixed with daylight that you can not tell were lit with flash.

With the exception of Image 3, for which the flash failed to go off for this shot, so there is just the available light exposure showing,

I rather like it but the image was quite underexposed so a little grainy but still charming effect.

Flash power on all 5 heads was set on lowish output to give me a flash meter reading of F4 from the models face, the meter pointing towards the camera position and on low power so the flash recycle time is short.

Re creating late afternoon or early morning sunlight lighting with flash: Read more:

The steps to becoming a top fashion photographer.

Taking the big steps to becoming a professional photographer can be a scary step to take.

A question we often ask ourselves: Am I good enough to learn how to become a professional fashion photographer?

We all carry fears and doubts about our abilities that can and do often stop us from fulfilling our dreams.

I have created my photography courses, workshops and master classes to  help you to build the confidence that you need in yourself and give you the professional skills and industry knowledge that you need to get you ready to take the big step to your dreams that many of my former photography courses students have already taken.

My First Fashion Photography Shoot Assignment

I took the image bellow during my first commissioned paid fashion shoot in 1983.  I was terrified but I over came the fear and have never looked back. The responses to this image are still creating work for me today.

Image was shot with available light coming through windows right reflected back onto models side with 4x4ft white poly-boards at 11am in an east facing ball room in the Adelphi Hotel in Liverpool.

Camera: Bronica 645

Film: FP4

Client: Helen Anderson

Model: Angela Saron (did her own make up)

Published in: Avant Guarde Fashion Magazine

If I had not taken the step in 1983 who knows where I would be now but I can tell you there is no journey I would like to take instead of the journey of fashion photography that has been my life for 40 years.

 

Fear of being good enough:

A big problem we often have is the fear of being good enough, a feeling that most of us have felt. Have you ever asked yourself, Am I good Enough?  I say you are.

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About Paris Fashion Photographer Bruce Smith

Paris fashion photographer and fine art nudes photographer Bruce Smith.

 

 

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How to photography models. Camera and lighting skills and tips for shooting models.

 

 

He specialises in shooting high fashion photography assignments in Paris.

 

Bruce has loved Paris for as long as he can remember, stemming back to his first trip there on his honeymoon.

 

After producing many fashion photography shoots there, for which he has explored many areas around Paris, he decided it is time to base his fashion photography business there.

 

If your looking for an experienced professional with over 30 years of fashion shoot production assignments under his belt, get in touch, Bruce would love to hear about your next fashion shoot.

 

His main specialist genres of fashion are, haute couture, high profile bridal wear gowns, swimwear, lingerie and high fashion.

For his personal work Bruce loves to shoot fine art and erotic fashion and nudes.

He does accepts private commissions to shoot nudes and fine art boudoir portraits.

More information about commissioning Bruce to shoot your portrait, fashion, nude or boudoir portrait.

 

http://www.brucesmithphotographer.com/commission-fine-art-portraiture.html

 

Source: About Paris Fashion Photographer Bruce Smith