Fine art · Studio near Stuttgart
Ophelia — fine art in water with Mathilde Dottir.
The Ophelia water setup, plus portrait, lingerie and nude. Two days, small group, one person shooting at a time.
Date
Sat 26 Sept + Sun 27 Sept
Time
09:30 – 14:30
Price
from €259.00
per day · book separately
On my camera, with your RAWs
Want to try an f/0.95 lens for once?
Brightin Star 50 mm f/0.95 (APS-C) · ein 35 mm f/0.95 ist angekündigt
A lens that opens at f/0.95 is not something most people own, and there is nowhere to try one. Here there is: it sits ready on a Sony body, you shoot with it whatever camera you brought, and the RAWs are yours.
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At a glance
Saturday 26 + Sunday 27 September 2026 · PR-Arts Studio near Stuttgart, 09:30–14:30 each day — book either day on its own. The centrepiece is the Ophelia water setup: a pool in the studio, blossoms, soft light. Six setups in five hours, max. five photographers per day. €259 per day.
What is included
- ·6 setups in about 5 hours — portrait, lingerie, artistic nude
- ·Not just the pictures: the reasoning behind them — light, setup and posing explained
- ·Max. 5 photographers per day — only one shoots at a time, no scrum
- ·300 m² studio, several permanent sets, professional strobes and modifiers
- ·The full Ophelia water setup: pool in the studio, blossoms, soft light
- ·Shoot with the Brightin Star 50 mm f/0.95 (APS-C) on Patrick's Sony bodies, whatever camera you bring. The RAWs are yours.
- ·Coaching and lighting direction by Patrick Rupp
- ·Drinks and food
- ·Your own images — portfolio and private use permitted (not commercial)
Ophelia — fine art in water
Water is the hardest surface in the studio. It reflects when you want it to draw, it goes flat when you light it wrong, and it moves. The Ophelia setup — a pool in the studio, blossoms on the surface, soft light from above — is the one people book this weekend for, and the one that teaches the most.
You will see exactly where the lamps stand so that the surface draws instead of mirroring, and what happens when one moves half a metre. Around it: portrait, lingerie and artistic nude, six setups across five hours.
The model — Mathilde Dottir
Mathilde Dottir is a full-time art model of Danish-Icelandic descent who works internationally. Her own phrase for it is “nude is fashion” — she treats the body as form and light, never as effect. Photographers describe her as calm, precise and entirely in control, equally strong in a plain portrait and in a fine-art nude. She founded her own agency, Crude, and brings the same clarity to every set.
Getting there
The studio is in Oberstenfeld, Germany — 25 minutes from Stuttgart, 20 from Heilbronn, with parking at the door. Stuttgart Airport is about an hour away, and the ICE stops in Stuttgart. Several participants each year travel in from abroad.
Language
The workshop is run in German, but Patrick speaks English and every setup is shown as well as explained — lamp positions, modifiers, aperture. Photographers from outside Germany have taken part before and had no trouble following along.
How a day runs
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09:30
Arrival and briefing
Welcome, a walk through the 300 m² studio and its lights, the plan for the day — then straight into the first set.
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from 10:00
Six setups, step by step
Portrait through lingerie to nude. One person shoots at a time, so you get real time at the set. Patrick directs light and posing where you need it.
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14:30
End
Five intense hours, six finished looks — and an understanding of how each one was built.
Cannot be there? · Livestream
Sunday 27 September · 15:30–17:30 (Berlin)
Cannot make it in person? On the Sunday we stream the shoot with Mathilde and Patrick — an education stream with everything announced and explained, for anyone who wants to learn without standing in the studio.
An education stream, not adult content: every lighting setup is announced and explained — lamp positions, modifiers, aperture, and why a mood looks the way it does. Questions go through the chat and get answered on air.
€39.99
Why this workshop
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The Ophelia water setup
A pool in the studio, blossoms, soft light — the painterly centrepiece of the weekend, built and directed properly.
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No scrum
Five photographers per day at most, and only one shoots at a time. Enough time at the set, and quiet to actually work.
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Portrait to nude
Clearly directed setups from portrait through lingerie to full artistic nude. You set your own pace.
From earlier shoots
Mathilde Dottir · Impressions
The full images
This page only shows what is safe for everyone.
The complete nude and boudoir work from Mathilde Dottir — and from every other workshop — is on our Patreon, along with the things a sales page has no room for: lighting diagrams for each setup, behind the scenes, and retouching runs.
New workshop dates go out there first, before the website.
From €9/month · cancel any time
Follow the model
Mathilde Dottir
Full-time art model of Danish-Icelandic descent, working internationally. Her phrase for it: nude is fashion.
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