Monday:
Get to know each other. Brief review of 3-5 images. These can be the participant’s best work, or stuff they need to improve, or even someone else’s work that they want to discuss and perhaps emulate. This usually takes up the morning and even a bit after lunch.

In the afternoon, we start with basics and run through a series of light shaping tools and see the actual effects they have on people’s faces, backgrounds, etc. We go from an umbrella (all types) to a soft box to a beauty dish, to flats, to grids, big sources, etc.

Late in the day, and perhaps not even Monday, we go into small flash, which will carry over to Tues. morning.

For all the above, we will be in house, in the class or studio, whatever is the environment out at LEPP. This whole process usually takes until Tues. lunch.

Tues. PM:
We would go to location on Tues. pm with multiple models and let people start practicing their skills. Breaking up into lighting teams (3-4 people max) everyone works together to facilitate each other’s vision.

Wed./Thurs.:
Very similar. Big location days, with multiple models. Often recommend take box lunches with us, so we maximize our time on location as best we can. Can’t leave too early though as time needs to be spent in the studio in the am, critiquing the previous days work. This would happen Wed. Thurs. and Friday mornings. Afternoons would be on location with multiple models.

Friday:
Wrapping up, wondering on schedule here. If we have the whole day, I often like to put the teams under pressure right after lunch by giving them each a model and a theme to shoot a cover of a major periodical. Examples could be, “new hot  young computer genius takes Silicon Valley by storm—here is the person, you have two hours to produce a cover of Wired magazine.”