Digital Days Weekend Workshop

I had the pleasure last weekend to attend a Digital Days workshop here in Richmond, sponsored by Sony.  If you've seen their advertisements for coming to your city, you don't want to miss out.  The workshop covered a lot of beginner information for digital photography, but it also had a wealth of additional information for many that have been shooting for years.  They also gave some cool tips for workign in Photoshop and Photoshop Elements.  I picked up a lot of new information and had a great time on the second day when they offered two model shooting opportunities.  Below are a few pictures from the weekend. 

Lesson Learned:
There is always something else to be learned. 

Unveiling,
Dee

Studio Lighting and Model

I'm still here and I'm still shooting and learning.  As I said in a previous post, I've been focusing on learning to shoot portraits.  My biggest challenge is I haven't created a model release form, so I haven't been posting many people portraits, but I'll work on that as well as try to remember to post other great things I'm learning.

This past weekend, I had the pleasure of taking a studio lighting workshop that was offered through my photography meetup group.  The experience was amazing.  I learned a little about studio lighting, I had the pleasure of working with a very very talented New York model and most of all I had a blast!!  Below are a few shots from the workshop, and I'm pretty stoked about how the pictures came out.  

Lesson Learned:
First lesson learned is I can't afford studio lighting at this time...way way out of my budge; but, there are studios and equipment available in your town for rent. So if you're looking for an opportunity to get started there are options.  The other lessons  I learned was how to aim for a glamour shot, how different angles of lighting in a studio affect the degree and tone of shadows, I learned about strobe lighting, light boxes and I can go on an on.  If you ever have the opportunity to take a class or workshop to learn how to shoot in a studio, don't sleep on it...it opens up another world of possibilities to lighting, especially once it starts to get cold outside.

Unveiling in the studio,
Dee