Portrait Lighting Techniques, a one-hour instructional DVD is full of essential lighting techniques and information that will help you create more effective and meaningful portraits immediately.

Comprehensive subject matter includes: lighting patterns, quality of light with boxes, grids, fresnells, umbrellas and beauty dishes, posing from headshots to full-length, and balancing strobe and ambient light.




Creative Techniques for Color Photography, an informative how-to book written and photographed by Bobbi Lane is published by Amherst Media. For content information and ordering details, click here.


Video Interview with Bobbi Lane



A video clip of an interview with Bobbi by Richard Newman of Calumet taped at the 2006 PhotoPlus Expo. To view or download the clip, click here.

The size of the Quicktime video file is approximately 6 MB.
The Bobbi Lane Workshops
Bobbi Lane is a commercial photographer who shares her many years of professional experience in her hands-on workshops. Based in Connecticut, she shoots people on location for corporate and editorial clients as well as photographing real people for stock agencies. A passionate photo educator, Bobbi is the recipient of APA's 25th Anniversary Education Award, and has twice won UCLA’s Outstanding Teacher Award. She offers a variety of dynamic workshops at leading educational institutions throughout the country, and also through her own one-day, weekend, and week-long workshops in New York City and Fairfield, Connecticut. Bobbi is well-known in the industry for providing workshop participants with essential information, creative photography techniques, and innovative ideas in a fun-filled learning environment.

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Hear a podcast with Bobbi Lane at the 7 Photography Questions website. Listen to Bobbi’s interview with Audri Lanford about natural light portraits.

Click here to go to the podcast.



Bobbi Lane Workshops

Weekend Workshops in Wilton, Connecticut
The Flash Class I (one-day workshop) Saturday, February 14, 2009
The Flash Class II (one-day workshop) Sunday, February 15, 2009

Lightroom Workflow: Shoot it, Work it, Back it up
Saturday, February 28 and Sunday March 1, 2009

More workshops coming soon!


Other Workshops
Workshop Dates
Photo Plus Expo ( Javits Center , NYC)

October 2009

International Center of Photography (NYC)
Lighting Techniques: An Overview
Environmental Portraits
January 29 - April 8, 2009
January 29 - April 8, 2009
Julia Dean Workshops (Los Angeles)
Portrait Lighting Intensive
April 24 - 26, 2009
Santa Fe Workshops
Portraits Unplugged
People and Places
Portraits Unplugged in Mexico
March 1 - 7, 2009
July 26 - August 1, 2009
October 25 - 31, 2009
Maine Workshops
Studio Fundamentals
Intro to Portraits
June 21 - 27, 2009
June 29 - July 4, 2009
Sundance Workshops
Portraits on Location

To be announced: 2009

Gulf Photo Plus (Dubai)
Portraits and Lighting Workshop
March 30 - April 4, 2009