Photography

Speaking to South County Photo club

Fire dancer performer of Tupua Productions has been performing at Riverside's Lunar Festival every year. ISO 1600 1/90 @f2.8
Fire dancer performer of Tupua Productions has been performing at Riverside’s Lunar Festival every year. ISO 1600 1/90 @f2.8. Later this month, this festival will held in the city of Riverside, so mark your calendars for Sat Jan 30th.

Happy New Year everyone.

It’s been a fun 2015.

Last year I met a lot of wonderful photographers when I was invited to speak to a photography club, the Inland Empire Photo Club, in the city of Temecula.

I’m starting the year speaking to another photography club, this time in Orange County, the South County Photography club.

They are apparently the sister club of the IEPC.

I guess I didn’t blow it when I visited IEPC so I got a referral to speak to their sister club.

Speaking to a group of photographers can be unnerving if I sat down and thought about it too much.

Like the last time, I will probably show some samples of my work then move on to my live demo on using small speedlites for portraits.

By the way, I’m offering my Small Flash Lighting workshop Part 1 this Saturday in Riverside because some of my students missed it but went on the Part 2.

If you are interested in any of these classes please complete the forms found on the following pages.

 

Assignment, Gear

Using speed lights at Tios Tacos Restaurant2

Ariana backlit by late evening sun lit by Photoflex Octodome softbox fitted with 2 CTO gelled Canon 600EX-RT Speedlites
Ariana backlit by late evening sun lit by Photoflex Octodome softbox fitted with 2 CTO gelled Canon 600EX-RT Speedlites
In my previous post about using small flashes at  Tios Tacos restaurant, I made some pictures of Izzy and Kavita with some behind-the-scene pictures to give you a sense of the conditions we were working with.

So it’s time to see what my students came up with.

A misconception that many folks have about instructors teaching portraiture and photography in general is: the instructor wants all his students to take the picture exactly he would.

In my case, I don’t want that. Continue reading Using speed lights at Tios Tacos Restaurant2 →

Assignment

Using Speedlights at Tios Tacos restaurant

Bringing together 5 beginning students of off-camera-flash with  5 models I recruited in unfamiliar surroundings  last Sunday was a lot of work.

But the results from my students made it really worthwhile.

In the 2nd part of my Small Flash Lighting workshop, we took what I showed them in the confines of the indoors in Part 1 on location to Tios Tacos restaurant.

It’s a whimsical place that Martin Sanchez, the owner,  has built over the years using recycled items from his restaurant like bottles, tin lids, bottle tops, oyster shells, barbie dolls, broken pieces of electronics and stuff that folks throw away.

For photography purposes though, this location is certainly a challenge. Continue reading Using Speedlights at Tios Tacos restaurant →

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