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individual workshop | personal tutoring session
Photographers who would like what is offered with the flash photography workshops,
but would like to have an individual workshop, can now do so.
We will cover similar ground as with the full-day workshop …
* White Balance settings
* TTL / Auto flash .. vs .. manual flash
* Exposure metering for ambient light
* Implications of flash sync speed
* Adding fill-flash to available light outdoors
* Flash indoors
* Directional bounce flash
* Flash modifiers – uses & limitations
* Dragging the shutter
* Tungsten light & flash
* metering for ambient light and fill flash
* using TTL flash and manual flash
* using video light
* Wireless TTL flash
* Using off-camera flash and a softbox / creating a small studio set-up.
… but it will be an individual session. Just you and me; my assistant and a model.
This individual workshop starts at my home-office in Wayne, NJ.
The day will start at 10am at my home-office, and for a few hours we’ll go over the theory and we’ll discuss the techniques and the stuff-we-need-to-know. Then around 1 pm we’ll break for a short lunch. Then from 1:30 pm to 7 pm we’ll visit different locations around north New Jersey. We’ll have an experienced model to photograph, and my assistant will be there to help carry lighting equipment and hold any lights. But we’ll be traveling light.
With a leisurely tempo we’ll explore different lighting scenarios, and I’ll answer all questions. As always, we’ll be after those aha! moments when things fall into place for you.
A certain level of fundamental technical knowledge is required for the sessions to be successful.
For example, a photographer should already know:
- the basic operation and controls of his or her camera,
- how to read the camera’s built in metering display,
- the basic relationship of aperture / shutter speed / ISO, and
- how to manually adjust those settings.
The fee: $1200 for the day, including the model and assistant helping us.
I will require a non-refundable deposit of $500 when you book the day.
Should you cancel, $300 can be re-applied to another date.
Availability: contact me, and we’ll look at both our schedules and figure out a date.
Should it rain, we’ll look at any convenient date within the next 10 days that will suit us.
e-mail me, or phone me at: 862-485-7276 to check availability or for more details.
“This workshop was fantastic! My perspective is that of one who went into it with far less experience than Natalie or Amanda, but I think I took at least as much away from it (probably more, having started from less).
Shooting with Neil and… his model and assistant and classmates was heaps of fun – they all wanted us to get the most possible out of the day, and I definitely finished with tremendously more confidence and competence in on and off camera flash (and video light, that was totally new to me) than I had before.
An abundance of what Neil calls “a-ha moments”. Neil is a very, very effective instructor. An absolutely fantastic practical learning experience!”
– Patrick Brophy
Comment by Neil vN — September 7, 2011 @ 6:30 pm