{"id":4750,"date":"2010-09-14T23:42:54","date_gmt":"2010-09-15T03:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/?p=4750"},"modified":"2017-08-18T19:12:03","modified_gmt":"2017-08-18T23:12:03","slug":"photography-workshop-jersey-city-and-new-york-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/photography-workshop-jersey-city-and-new-york-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"recap: photography workshop – Jersey City & NYC (2010)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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recap: photography workshop – Jersey City &\u00a0NYC (2010)<\/h1>\n

The final workshop for 2010\u00a0took place this week – the first day again located in Jersey City, with a spectacular view of Manhattan. \u00a0The second day had a smaller group of photographers practicing on-location lighting techniques in Manhattan.<\/p>\n

This striking image of Catherine, our model at the Monday workshop, was taken as a storm was slowly sweeping in. \u00a0The background was intentionally under-exposed like this to give a dramatic quality to the final image.\u00a0\u00a0The light on her was from a softbox, placed to the camera right, and fairly high. I purposely asked our model, Catherine,\u00a0to lift her gaze so that the light came in from an angle that didn’t give shadows under her eyebrows.<\/p>\n

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Settings: 1\/250 @ f10 @ 200 ISO
\nTTL flash, wirelessly controlled from the on-camera speedlight; FEC at -0.7 EV<\/p>\n

For the pullback shot here, I needed the flash to show the light falling on Catherine. Because the bright softbox included in the frame here would fool the TTL metering,\u00a0I had to set the off-camera flash to manual output. If I had kept the off-camera flash to TTL mode, it would’ve pulled down the exposure for this image.<\/p>\n

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The second day of the workshop took place in New York, where a smaller group of us roamed around the Meat-packing District. We now put into practice everything we learned the previous day – off-camera flash (TTL and manual flash), bounce flash … and also looking at the direction and quality of the available light for some available light portraits.\u00a0It all comes together as a better understanding of light in whatever way we choose to use it.<\/p>\n

For this part of the workshop, we worked with Anelisa – always a wonderfully versatile model to photograph.<\/p>\n

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Off-camera TTL flash, controlled via an on-camera speedlight. \u00a0I did have to edit in the over-bright left-hand side brickwork and door frame from another photograph where I had disabled the flash.
\nSettings: 1\/200 @ f5 @ 400 ISO … FEC set to -1 EV<\/p>\n

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This image is from an indoor sequence where we practiced directional bounce flash with an on-camera flash.
\nSettings: 1\/125 @ f2.8 @ 1000 ISO<\/p>\n

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A final example from the workshop, where we specifically photographed Anelisa with only the available light .. but positioning her for best effect.<\/p>\n

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Thank you again to everyone who attended and made this a fun workshop to present. \u00a0A thank you as well to our models, Catherine, Carrie and Anelisa.<\/p>\n

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Photography workshops<\/h2>\n