{"id":1320,"date":"2009-07-30T02:38:02","date_gmt":"2009-07-30T06:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.planetneil.com\/tangents\/?p=1320"},"modified":"2020-06-13T19:37:17","modified_gmt":"2020-06-13T23:37:17","slug":"photography-workshop-brighton-uk-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/photography-workshop-brighton-uk-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"recap: Photography workshop – Brighton, UK (2009)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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recap: Photography workshop – Brighton, UK (2009)<\/h1>\n

I must say I am pretty amazed myself at being able to come to the UK to present workshops, and that there was such interest in having me come over.\u00a0 So here we are .. the first workshop just took place, and it was in Brighton, the well-known tourist and holiday resort.\u00a0 As usual, part of the program included working outdoors with softboxes and manual flash .. and for this we went down to the colourful\u00a0promenade.<\/p>\n

The image above has our two models, Amy and Francesca, at the merry-go-round on the promenade.\u00a0 Some technical info about that photo:<\/p>\n

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The two models were lit with flash, using two softboxes with an SB-900 each, with the speedlight\u00a0set to manual.\u00a0\u00a0 The softboxes were held up\u00a0on either side of the camera at about 30′ off from me, at equal distance to each model.<\/p>\n

The camera was set to 1\/250th @ f11 @ 200 ISO .. and as you can see from the following image, that underexposed the ambient by about a stop.<\/p>\n

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Then we used the flash to pick up the slack on the exposure, and thereby have the two models stand out from the background.\u00a0 The speedlights were set to give us\u00a0 f11 at the particular distance the softbox was positioned in relation to each model.<\/p>\n

Back to some basics:
\nManual flash exposure is controlled by aperture, ISO, flash power setting,\u00a0and distance from the light source to the subject.\u00a0 In this case aperture and ISO are determined for us by the ambient light.\u00a0 That just leaves us having to find a combination of distance and power so we can get correct exposure on our models for our chosen aperture.<\/p>\n

Two more photos to show everyone during the photo session on the beach ..<\/p>\n

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Thank you to everyone who attended, and thank you to our two models who helped make the day!<\/p>\n

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Photography workshops<\/h2>\n