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Tangents

workshop view: Jersey City, NJ

July 19, 2009

As a report-back on the most recent workshop in New Jersey, (held in Jersey City)  I thought I’d simply post the first feedback email I received about the workshop.  It is always good to hear the workshop has such impact:

Neil,  So tonight I shot my first ‘post-workshop’ wedding…. Holy Crap – what an incredible difference!!!
    I shot 30% less images tonight than I normally do. Out of those, I have more ‘keepers’ than I’ve ever had before *with* all the additional shots. I’m stunned that my first attempt at applying what you gave me produced results like this – I can only imagine where this will take me with practice!  (oh, you can only use the above as a testimonial if you keep the “holy crap” bit in! )
    I have to say, I loved the workshop – perfect balance of classroom and ‘hands on’ – for someone like me form a rock in the ocean where we have no way to learn other than reading and trying, it was an awesome experience. Thanks so much for everything.
    Ben J.

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And as usual with the report-back on a workshop, here’s an image from the workshop and a little explanation of some of the techniques that can be expected to be covered. 

I positioned Priscilla, one of our models, so that we could play around with the idea of getting directional light from our on-camera speedlights – even to where we could get very close to the short lighting style of portrait lighting.  And just to show where we started from without flash:

Yup, nearly all the light you see in the top image is from the single on-camera speedlight.   Both images at 1/250th @ f3.5 @ 1250 ISO.   In this case the high shutter speed was to demonstrate the effect of the flash. 

And with some sweetening with some Photoshop fairy dust to give a more stylised effect, we end up with:

Thank you to everyone who attended, and thank you to our two models, Priscilla and Precious.

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