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UPDATED: Lighting workshop at the gardens
Posted By: codiac2600, 05-17-2009, 10:48 PM

I posted a while back about my opportunity to teach a portrait class at the US's number one private japanese garden. Class ended about 4 hours ago and I decided to edit the few shots I took since I was the instructor. Being the instructor meant I missed out on like a million photo opportunities but these are about 1/4 of what I shot throughout the day.


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I've shown a few samples of the images I was able to snap off while instructing, but I also had my friend come by and tape the shoot. I'm sorry for the quality and the even more sorry about the audio as the garden is filled with water features and water falls so the ambient sound is picked up by the mic more-so than my own voice. I edited the first two hours of the video down to 30 minutes and broke it down farther to 4 parts so I can upload them on YouTube. I'm making this series available to the masses and in there buried are great examples and live demo of reflectors and flash used on location.

Let me know what you think and I hope everyone here enjoys this!

*Only the first two clips are up and I'll add in the other links as they slowly upload*

Clip One: YouTube - Portrait Workshop Clip #1
Clip Two: YouTube - Portrait Workshop Clip #2


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Enjoy!

First session was only using reflectors:





Second session we used a little bit of off camera lighting:





Last session was advanced lighting techniques (aka LOTS OF FLASH):





Last edited by codiac2600; 05-19-2009 at 01:55 PM.
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05-18-2009, 12:11 AM   #2
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Really good colour handling in the whole set. Technically the first and last two stand out for me, really good separation of subject and background.
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Chris,

It is obvious why you are teaching this class. Wonderful series. I'm sure your students are very appreciative of you knowledge.

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Thank you so much guys!

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Good stuff as usual, Chris. I'd never guess there was a lot of flash used in those last few shots. You really concealed it well....it looks like room lighting.

Just curious...what lens(es) did you use in the first 2 shots? (BTW, I figured those were reflector only)
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chris,
thanks for posting these. really wonderful images and warm colors throughout. My favorites are #1 and #5 for the composition and model's expression and artistic DOF.

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Awesome shots Chris
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Hey Everyone added links to the first two video clips from the class.
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QuoteOriginally posted by codiac2600 Quote
Hey Everyone added links to the first two video clips from the class.
Thanks, Chris. Great stuff. You're very generous.
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Thanks for the links to the videos Chris!! For some reason the link to your blog is broken.
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Very interesting to see vids, thanks for the extra effort put into sharing this
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Thank you so much for posting this videos, Chris.
Not many instructors willing to show their teaching sessions online.
I learned a lot about lighting from these videos.
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Superb, first four are masterpieces
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Very nice!
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