Shoot The Centerfold Santorini Seminar/Workshop – April 9 – 16, 2023

STC Santorini 2023 – SOLD OUT!

April 9-16, 2023 – Santorini, Greece

Our Finest International Seminar Returns with an All-New Program!

The Greek island of Santorini is the ultimate location for photographers and videographers. In this beautiful paradise, you will experience wonders found nowhere else in the world. Santorini is the ultimate gateway to the heart of any photographer, editor and art director.

We have brought you to Santorini for the past nine years, produced images for publications and commercial campaigns, eaten Greek delicacies, and discovered new-found talent while bonding among photographers and friends.

Welcome to our STC “Boutique Workshops,” where you can travel with a small select group of like-minded photographers seeking to reach outside their comfort zone and discover the next level of publishing in a more intimate setting. And publishing is what we have delivered to you. Each seminar has produced Playboy playmates, features, advertisements, and campaigns for major companies. These small workshops offer personalized bonding, educational experiences, and follow-ups from the STC master photographers.

This paradise for perfect images was born long before your shutter release. Experience Santorini and create your well-balanced masterpiece.

STC is reinventing the photography experience!

Learn the difference between a photographer and today’s “Viral Content Creator.” These new world creatives not only take images, they create multimedia-rich experiences for clients who rely on sustainable workflow for their business and marketing. It’s time to get in the game or be left behind.

One frequently asked question from attendees: “Are my images going to look like everyone else’s?” No, they are not. We keep fine-tuning our Boutique Seminar Program to elevate your learning experience even higher than ever by creating a pictorial shoot opportunity with a small group of attendees where you photograph your scenes with an instructor and no one else. The new and dedicated One-on-One shooting time with each seminar attendee guarantees unique images from all the participants. Our goal is to create epic pictorials instead of duplicating the same scenes multiple times.

STC One-on-One session pictorial with Michael Stephen

Cut to the Chase

Now, we bring you Santorini, Greece 2023, a new high-end publishing workshop experience that ups your game from any previous seminars anywhere, including ours! We bring the clients for you to photograph and give you the opportunity to get published.

No guessing, just facts from our customers who have already shown your work in magazines, campaigns, posters, and catalogs.

You have chosen us to return to a scene where Aegean gods welcomed us with their open arms and where publishing success was found at each of our past STC Santorini Seminars. Consider Shoot The Centerfold as your gateway to the world of photography and editing. Our efforts and lifetime of experience have become your stepping stone to your future.

How We Are Different

Our accomplishments and experience in the industry have granted us our educational edge and success.

We are internationally acclaimed photographers who have worked and still work for Playboy and have created some of the most talked about pictorials published worldwide.

Over the past decades, our collective work has been seen in almost every major publication, as well as in advertising campaigns and fine-art galleries.

No other seminar can currently match the published body of work that we bring to the table. Also, we remain top working photographers in the industry who travel the world and are part of building the brands of many high profile clients.

From day one, the STC project was meant to connect the dots for those photographers who are willing to follow our success and take their photography to the next level.

Our seminar attendees have the highest published rate of any other seminar in the industry. We don’t just offer you a weekend full of fun but an opportunity that can change your life.

And that, my friends, is what makes us different.

The STC Santorini seminar is our fastest selling seminar ever. Do not wait and let your career opportunities pass by you while success is knocking at your door.

Discover Your Style

Time and time around, we will raise the bar higher than ever by focusing more on the image’s look, style, and feel in addition to the photography technicalities. The four most critical elements of a successful image are:

• Model
• Lighting
• Location
• Wardrobe
• Style/look/feel

To fully understand the real potential of a successful image and its impactful statement, it starts with having the right mindset and a solid plan for exhibiting what you are trying to say with your photos. Our specialty of visual expression surpasses many editorial expectations.

Nothing is more important than carefully planned pre-production, regardless of how simple or challenging the job may be. Exhibiting light, shadow, and style is the backbone of success. With its beautiful white walls, Santorini offerers more visual variety and shooting locations than any other place in the world.

No wonder Santorini ranks so high in the client and the editorial world. The choice to return to Santorini is not to duplicate the past but to define your future.

How does Shoot The Centerfold choose its models for the seminars?

How do we select models for our seminars? They must have not only the right look but they must also have the experience necessary to work with everyone from a novice photographer to a full-fledged professional. Our models must not only maximize the shooting experience, but they must also have a grasp of the business side of modeling as well. STC’s beliefs and direction are to provide a broad selection of models to demonstrate the concept of having the model fit the assignment. We go through an extensive search when selecting models, as this is one of the most important parts of your photo shoot since models are the subject that you are photographing.

If you’ve turned to STC for assistance in your photography, then you’ve likely come to the conclusion that shooting for fun only goes so far. Eventually, all photographers who take their work seriously will start wondering how to turn their hobby into a paying job. This is where STC’s experience influences the choices we make when choosing the models. Glamour models, centerfolds, swimsuit, and lingerie models are sexy and fun to shoot because they are their product. The attraction to this type of photography is a form of sexuality and seductiveness that will always turn heads. The images will impress viewers, even if they’re not in the photo industry and everyone will notice your photos. Well, almost everyone. What about commercial clients and fashion houses?

There’s a difference when shooting fashion models as opposed to glamour and not just in poses or lighting. There’s a saying that a fashion model knows how to present the clothes she’s wearing and become secondary to the overall image. Her appearance and attitude are a reflection of the client or designer, not her own. People in the fashion biz say that models are just fancy clothes hangers, and they’re pretty much spot on. The make-up, hair, accessories, attire, swimsuit, or lingerie is the primary element in the image with everything else taking a backseat to the product. As fussy as clients are with models, you can’t imagine how meticulous they also are with the photographers they use to shoot their million-dollar campaigns or their catalogs. This is where the BIG bucks come into play! Are you ready to learn the tasks of dazzling a multi-billion dollar industry and bring home that fat check?

So far, we have merged two different philosophies, each with different directions and have made impressions on two separate yet complementary worlds. Sure, there’s a “Glam” category, but the primary focus for STC is to teach you the best of both worlds so you can start making money with your camera. As much fun and as our Santorini seminar will be, we will also be offering instruction and guidance that goes beyond shooting, lighting, and posing. We will be exploring the business side of photography, evaluating career readiness, and teaching how to customize your skills in preparation for that awesome day when that major client comes knocking at your door. And this is how we choose our models. Stay tuned; there is much more to come!

Influencer Photography

Our new influence style photography category has become one of the hottest and most wanted photography styles. It has reshaped the entire industry of lifestyle and branding for major companies and publications in unprecedented proportions. The old is out and the new “Instagram/TikTok-lifestyle” is what’s in currently. What was the hot button a few years ago has taken a new direction.

Learn experience-based marketing and how today’s magazine advertising and commercial attraction have moved to social marketing and so should you. While publication circulation numbers keep falling, the new much-wanted and viewed social platform keeps growing. It has evolved into a new way to do business.

As the world changes rapidly, we need to keep up with the latest industry demands if your continued photographic success goals are to be met.

At STC, our focus is continually delivering and teaching the latest marketing ideas and tools so our photographer attendees can flourish. Why? Because your success is our satisfaction.

Dave Gallagher Returns to Santorini with 150MP Phase One Camera systems, Image Editing, and Workflow

Once more we have added a workflow and editing session day where you will learn image editing, color correction and how to achieve the look and feel seen in today’s high-end publications and campaigns. Dave Gallagher from Capture Integration together with STC master photographers will show you the latest trends and how they get made. There’s more to a picture than meets the eye. The understanding of different styles, ever-changing trends (and what to watch as the image styles change), and while market differentiation plays a significant role in professional publishing.

Growth and wisdom are the essences at the STC seminars, and for your epic experience, we will have a variety of the latest Phase One XF camera bodies, and IQ4 digital backs for you to use along with every single Schneider Leaf Shutter lens made today. Dave Gallagher from Capture Integration will be present for workflow demonstrations and questions. Come and find out what the world’s best photography seminar is all about.

Santorini, the Heaven on Earth, is the Ultimate Dream Destination for Photographers

There are very few places in the world where architectural elements play a role as significant as they do in Santorini, Greece. Wherever you look, you see perfect backgrounds and settings for any photography. It seems as if every single building was built with photography in mind. The legendary Greek style offers the most photography-friendly locations anywhere in the world when comparing aesthetics, variety, and choices. White, blue, yellow and the ocean with mountain backgrounds create a mind-blowing masterpiece found nowhere else. It’s no wonder that Santorini has become the world’s most prominent photography destination. There’s so much to choose from and never enough time to capture everything.

We are returning to Santorini at your and our client’s request. Since we are content providers for the publishing industry, it’s a no-brainer to re-visit Santorini’s photogenic and beautiful elements that play a significant role in publishing houses across the globe.

Santorini and its locations are some of the most beautiful places in the world

Shoot The Centerfold Seminar on Publishing

One of the very exciting bonus perks of STC seminars is that publications like to pick up and share the STC seminar experiences by printing them on the glossy pages of their magazine.

Also, many STC attendees’ work has appeared in Playboy and MAXIM pictorials, features, and covers. Now, that is what we call well-deserved success. All published photographs and covers are carefully calculated photography, negotiations with editors, and not purchased magazine pages. We believe that good photography alone should be suitable for publishing as is.

STC Attendee MAXIM pictorial winners

The “Girls of STC” in Playboy

Reggie Blatter’s 8 pages in Playboy

Larry Johnson’s pictorial and cover

From STC to Playboy cover model

Playboy’s 8-page layout – Bali 2018

Stefano Navarro’s Playboy pictorial

Miami 2016 – 8 Pages in Playboy

Santorini 2015 – 4 Pages in Playboy

Miami 2014 – 6 Pages in Playboy

Miami 2012 – 6 Pages in Playboy

Cover by STC attendee Michael Sheller

Playmate by attendee Steven Ruegnitz

 

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Shoot The Centerfold on Commercial Publishing

Shoot The Centerfold’s primary focus is great photography and publishing. Our success is also inclusive of the commercial and fashion photography industries. Commercial photography is also a very lucrative and competitive marketplace, and our specialty is now at your disposal. Many of our attendees’ seminar images end up in magazines, catalogs and even as posters in various styles in the industry. Join forces and settle for nothing but the very best in photography.

Be a Winner

After each workshop or One-on-One session, we choose a winner or hero images created during the symposium, which will be made available for advertising or ad campaigns, depending on style. Here are a few samples.

Blayne Uto – Hensel

Reggie Blatter – Hensel

Ruzdi Ekenheim – Winner

Multible Publishing Winners

Michael Sheller – Winner

Larry Johnson – Winner

Joe Tejeda – Winner

Priceless Experience

Your dream for us to host a limited edition seminar has become a reality. We will be hard at work teaching photography and a little bit of Greek mythology for good measure. One of the most memorable moments from our past Santorini trip was not only the pictorials now seen in major print campaigns and Playboy but mostly the private bonding moments with the crew members and models. Sitting on the porch while editing the daily images, enjoying fantastic local drinks and food, watching the surreal sunset, getting a chance to get to know everyone better and creating memories to last a lifetime.

Highly skilled instructors

Photograph in world-class locations

Take your photography to a whole new level

Get Cozy with the Oia Sunset Villas – Your Hotel

You will be staying at the “Oia Sunset Villas“

Located in the north of Santorini in the traditional settlement of Oia. This group of six elegant houses comes highly recommended and they feature fantastic accommodations. The group of houses is finished to high standards with a traditional design throughout with much attention to detail. The use of conventional Oia volcanic red & black stones and some of the best materials included in the design that combine in harmony with the environment. All houses have three levels of living. Every villa has a private yard with dining areas to enjoy alfresco dining, a garden, and a private heated hydro massage spa. A common use swimming pool combined with the perfect sea and sunset views will keep you there the whole day. The BBQ area offers a lot of space and facilities for many people. The luxury combined with the ultimate privacy offers an unforgettable stay and a unique experience.

Note: Shoot The Centerfold has reserved two of the houses for its 15 seminar attendees and crew, and this is a shared housing environment. Should you want to stay somewhere else instead, we can make recommendations upon your request. Let us know if you have any questions by clicking here.

Need a Flexible Payment Plan?

Following some of our attendees’ requests, we decided to provide alternative forms of payment to be more “wallet-friendly”. Send us an email, and we will work with you on different options to make it happen. Our Santorini seminar/workshop will be our ultimate experience and not one to miss!

• *Program is subject to change without notice.
• *The attendee rooms are shared room environment. (Two participants per room). Private rooms are available upon request for an extra fee.
• *Refunds & Cancellations: Enrollment is limited; therefore your commitment is important to us. If you must withdraw from a seminar, we provide this refund policy: A $25 administrative charge will be added for all cancellations. If you cancel 90 days before the start of the workshop, we will retain 50% of the total workshop fee, unless we can fill your spot. If you cancel 30 days or less before the start date of the seminar, we will retain 100% of the workshop fee unless we can fill your spot. All deposits are non-refundable. No refunds, once the symposium begins.

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