Software Cinema Releases Dean Collins on Lighting Live at Brooks Institute of Photography

SAN DIEGO, CA – March 28, 2007 – Software Cinema, a leading software training company supporting the imaging industry of photographers, videographers and graphic artists, today announced the re-release of Dean Collins on Lighting Live at Brooks Institute of Photography onto DVD. This high energy seminar, covering various light manipulation techniques and tricks, is the only professionally captured footage of Dean in action. The re-release will coincide with the Wedding and Portrait Photographers International (WPPI) Convention and Trade Show to be held in Las Vegas, Nevada March 24th through 29th, 2007. Software Cinema will be exhibiting at booth 316.

Transferred from video to the high-quality DVD format, this 1.75 hour tutorial created for photo enthusiasts and professional photographers covers fundamental and advanced lighting techniques that can be applied to standard or digital photography. Lessons range from lighting techniques in portrait, product and fashion photography on both small and large sets.

Every working photographer, regardless of experience level, will benefit from the principles explained by a leader in photographic education. Even though Dean’s lessons are not of the digital imaging age, many of the lighting and processes of photography have not changed. See many of Dean’s amazing techniques for innovative tabletop photography, indoor and outdoor fashion, large set photography and much more.

“Dean Collins taught us to not only see the light, but to move it, bend it and most importantly control it, no matter where or when we are creating images,” stated Gary Burns, director of operations at Software Cinema. “He was a brilliant educator and often referred to as the finest presenter in the industry. With a combination of wit and the ability to reduce complicated concepts to workable solutions, he was the “Dean” of Photographic Education.”

Pricing and Availability
Software Cinema’s Dean Collins on Lighting Live at Brooks Institute of Photography is available now for $72.00 and can be purchased by going to www.software-cinema.com.

About Dean Collins
In the early 1980s, Dean Collins founded Finelight Publishing with partner Gary Burns and refined the publishing of photo lighting materials over the years, while conducting seven world tours. He was in demand as a speaker on every continent, and was often called upon to photograph heads of state, many of the world’s best athletes as well as some of the most famous entertainers known. He developed several easily understood methods of controlling light and understanding its behavior, single handedly raising the level of competency and quality among a generation of professional photographers. The lighting in his photographs captured the attention of many. He produced many hundreds of virtual seminars and live "Training Camps”, as he called them, bringing together the brightest teachers, the biggest brand names in photography, and enthusiastic crowds of practitioners in the U.S., Europe and Asia. Dean Collins battled cancer for 3 years and passed away at his home in San Diego on February 2, 2005. He was 51 years old.

About Software Cinema
Headquartered in San Diego, California, Software Cinema is a privately-held company and strategic partner of Adobe Systems focused on interactive learning for the digital imaging industry. Through Training Camps, Programs on Disc, Workshops-On-Demand and Video Presentations, Software Cinema brings proven techniques from the top names in the industry for fundamental and advanced education. For more information, please visit www.software-cinema.com