Bobbi Lane - Background Brief

BOBBI LANE, PHOTOGRAPHER

Bobbi Lane is a commercial photographer specializing in creative portraits, travel shoots, and stock photography. Based in Fairfield County, Connecticut, she is available locally and nationally for assignments from agencies, design firms, corporate photography work, and magazines.

Bobbi Lane's multi-faceted approach to photography incorporates over 25 years of technical experience with innovative artistic interpretation. Lane primarily shoots environmental portraits of people on location for corporate and advertising accounts, and photographs "real people" and travel for stock. Her stock photography has sold worldwide for ads, posters, and billboards.

Bobbi's client list includes: Warner Bros., PricewaterhouseCoopers, Samsung, Bose Corp., Neutrogena, Ricon, Mattel, Sears' Tower Skydeck, and the Morro Bay Natural History Museum. She has also been a regular contributing photographer to Ridgefield and Bedford Magazines.www.bobbilane.photofolio.com

Bobbi has exhibited her fine art work on Pow Wows and Sensual Flowers in Los Angeles, New York City, and Ridgefield, CT. She has won awards for both her commercial work and fine art work in regional and national competitions.

As a teacher on the regional, national, and international level, she brings insight and enthusiasm to her classes, each year inspiring hundreds of students. Bobbi's excellent rapport and open communication with her students stimulates creative thinking, while her straight-forward teaching style motivates students of many different skill levels.

Bobbi teaches for some of the leading photographic educational centers around the country, including: The Santa Fe Workshops, The Maine Workshops, The Julia Dean Workshops, and she is a faculty member at the International Center of Photography (ICP) in New York City. Internationally, Bobbi holds workshops at Gulf Photo Plus in Dubai twice a year. She is also a contributing editor to Photo Techniques magazine, and has written many articles on lighting, portraits, and color for the publication.

To see more of Bobbi's current work, go to: www.idmaonline.com.
After twenty-five years in California, Bobbi relocated to Connecticut, and lives in the country with her fiancé, Dave Miles.

“Portrait Lighting Techniques”, a one-hour instructional DVD is jam-packed full of valuable 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.

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“Creative Techniques for Color Photography”, an informative how-to book written and photographed by Bobbi Lane is published by Amherst Media.

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