Nick Fancher 11/10/24 Nick Fancher 11/10/24

Images From the November Creative Portrait Workshop

Last week I hosted another one of my Creative Portrait workshops, in Columbus, Ohio. Students came in from Toronto, Portland, Asheville, and San Francisco to learn some of my lighting and camera techniques. Big thanks to @westcottlighting for providing the strobes, transmitters, and light modifiers, and to @nanliteusa for providing the LEDs.

My next workshop is January 25-26 and is at a discounted rate until December 15. There are only five spots FYI. More info, here.

Nick Fancher 6/25/24 Nick Fancher 6/25/24

Slipknot X Revolver Magazine Photo Shoot

This shoot was a make-it-work situation, if ever there was one. I was given 30-minutes to shoot a magazine cover as well as individual portraits of each member of @slipknot for @revolvermag. Apparently I didn’t think this was tall enough of an order, so I decided to shoot four different color schemes, both with and without a prism…

Nick Fancher 2/13/24 Nick Fancher 2/13/24

Images From January's Creative Portrait Workshop

Here are a handful of my favorite images from January’s Creative Portrait workshop. I’ve been teaching workshops since 2011 and have been slightly modifying the format each time until I found the current iteration. I now cap the two-day class at five students, which allows for more hands-on time and exploration of each technique. Since there are endless variations that can be created from any one of the techniques that I teach, I start by showing the class three iterations, and then I guide them, one at a time, in helping them fold it into their own visual style. This allows students to really retain the knowledge, as well as work it into their personal style.

Nick Fancher 9/7/23 Nick Fancher 9/7/23

Images from Photo Workshop Intensives

Last month, for the first time ever, I offered several different workshop intensives. One focused on using just one strobe; one focused on color theory; and one focused on techniques that warped the subject’s appearance. These classes focused on a specific technique, rather than my Creative Portrait workshops, which focus on a broader range of creative techniques. I found the format helped both me and my students pay more attention to just how vast any one technique can be.

Nick Fancher 6/29/23 Nick Fancher 6/29/23

Flea of Red Hot Chili Peppers for Los Angeles Times

Flea has a new podcast called “This Little Light”, on which he interviews a broad range of people from the music industry such as Patti Smith, Earl Sweatshirt, and Rick Rubin, thus mirroring his own diverse taste in music. When Calvin Alagot asked me to make portraits of Flea for the Los Angeles Times, I began thinking of different techniques that I could employ in an effort to reference the breadth and length of Flea’s career as well as his influence in the music world.

Nick Fancher 6/24/23 Nick Fancher 6/24/23

Jason Segel for the Los Angeles Times' Envelope

The @latimes_entertainment was doing a story on Jason Segel and his new show, Shrinking, and @himguydude asked me to shoot the portraits (thanks again for the trust and freedom, Brandon)…

Nick Fancher 1/25/23 Nick Fancher 1/25/23

Fuzzy Rainbows: Psychedelic Photo Shoot with Prisms

For this shoot I worked with prisms and boldly-colored gelled lights. I love the results, which simultaneously feel vintage and futuristic— psychedelic and cyberpunk. As always, these effects were created in-camera, only using Lightroom to enhance color and contrast.

Nick Fancher 9/7/22 Nick Fancher 9/7/22

Photo Shoot with Dj / Producer Kallaghan

I recently worked with award winning DJ and producer, Kallaghan. I employed a range of camera and lighting effects to create a broad range of images that encapsulate the energy in his energetic music.