Master Studio Lighting by Lindsay Adler

10 weeks, 50+ short lessons, and one goal: stop hoping the light works and start telling it what to do. Lindsay walks you from exposure basics to full 1, 2, and 3-light setups so you can shoot headshots, creative portraits, and boudoir that actually book clients.

🎯 What you’ll learn

• Speak the language of light — exposure, distance, highlights and shadows
• Control quality and direction of light for clean, intentional results
• Use the Inverse Square Law to predict falloff and place lights correctly
• Work with studio strobes, speedlights, modifiers, and grip like a pro
• Build ten go-to 1, 2, and 3-light setups from scratch
• Shoot high-key and low-key lighting on demand
• Use gels for creative color portraits
• Light in small spaces without losing quality
• Shoot headshots, creative portraits, and boudoir with confidence

✅ Requirements

• Skills: Basic camera skills — shooting in manual mode, understanding aperture, shutter speed and ISO
• Tools: Interchangeable-lens camera, studio strobe or speedlight, basic modifier (softbox or umbrella), light stand

📝 Description

This isn’t a random pile of tutorials. It’s built like a real course — short, focused lessons, practice assignments, and study materials that stack week by week. You watch a concept, you shoot it, you get it.

Lindsay starts with the stuff most photographers skip: how exposure, distance, and angle actually work together. Once you get how highlights and shadows shape a face, modifiers stop being confusing. You’ll know why you pick a big softbox over a beauty dish, when to pull the light back, and how to fix flat or harsh light fast.

Then you get into the hands-on part. Studio strobes, speedlights, grip, and light modifiers — what to buy, what to skip, and how to set it up without a big studio. Small bedroom? Low ceiling? She covers that. You’ll work through ten practical 1, 2, and 3-light setups you can reuse for almost any client, plus high-key lighting for clean commercial looks and low-key lighting for drama.

The last stretch is where it gets fun. Color gels, creative portraits, headshots, and boudoir. Same tools, different intent. By the end you aren’t copying settings — you’re making calls on set and knowing why they work.

🧑‍🎓 Who this course is for

• Portrait photographers stuck on natural light who want full control in the studio
• Beginners to intermediate shooters who want a clear, step-by-step system for 1 to 3 lights, headshots, and creative work

🧑‍🏫 About the Author

Lindsay Adler is a New York-based fashion and portrait photographer with over 17 years behind the camera. Her work is known for bold studio lighting, clean color, and strong creative portraiture for brands, magazines, and advertising clients worldwide.

She’s also one of the most trusted educators in the industry, teaching lighting workshops and pro training across the globe. She teaches the way she shoots — direct, practical, and obsessed with getting it right in-camera.

🏁 Final Result

• A portfolio set of studio portraits shot with your own 1, 2, and 3-light setups — including high-key, low-key, gelled creative portraits, headshots, and boudoir-style work — ready to show clients.