- May 23, 2000
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I just got back from four days at the Golden Gate Photography School that was held at Mills College in Oakland, CA. My boss sent me to a class on lighting and posing and it was amazing. We learned from a Master Photographer named Mark Allen, who works out of Michigan. I'm still in the process of sorting through all my notes and photos, but I thought I'd share a few of the shots that jumped out at me. Each day started with lessons in the classroom, which led us to afternoons filled with outdoor shooting.
We started out learning more about studio lighting techniques and then worked on window lighting, which I thought was awesome. When you treat the sun as your primary light you can achieve a lot of the same lighting styles that you can in the studio. We then moved outdoors and did lots of shooting with natural light. I didn't use flash on any of these shots. The only illumination was the sun and a single reflector (either silver or white).
We did a lot of work figuring out proper exposures to eliminate blowing out highlights (I still blew out a few, though). Overall it was a fun, educational time. I recommend photography courses to anyone that wants to get better with the camera. I've got lots of ideas for new things to do in the studio as well as on location.
So here are a few of the natural light shots I took over the course of four days. Oh yeah, professional models are great (to look at) :)
We started out learning more about studio lighting techniques and then worked on window lighting, which I thought was awesome. When you treat the sun as your primary light you can achieve a lot of the same lighting styles that you can in the studio. We then moved outdoors and did lots of shooting with natural light. I didn't use flash on any of these shots. The only illumination was the sun and a single reflector (either silver or white).
We did a lot of work figuring out proper exposures to eliminate blowing out highlights (I still blew out a few, though). Overall it was a fun, educational time. I recommend photography courses to anyone that wants to get better with the camera. I've got lots of ideas for new things to do in the studio as well as on location.
So here are a few of the natural light shots I took over the course of four days. Oh yeah, professional models are great (to look at) :)