Lighting Workshop with Alex Beckett, Goldbrick House

A portrait of Jane

Last year, Cambridge-based photographer Alex Beckett (www.alexbeckett.co.uk) asked the Twitterverse for tips for his impending trip to Mongolia. Of course I obliged. Fast forward 6 months later and he is living in Bristol, down the road from me!

In March, his trip to Saudi was cancelled and decided to run his very first off-camera flash workshop. It was a multi-level workshop with photographers who were totally new to lighting alongside experienced professionals. I decided to go along to wrap a formal approach around my existing knowledge and to see some photographer friends!

Alex took us through the basics of flash photography, his kit, a demonstration (posing Martin Pemberton as The Godfather!)and we all got pitched in. I’d been involved recruiting the pilot group of attendees and models so knew most people attending the day, but there were a few new faces too. We all had fun and even the attendees with more advanced knowledge learnt a few tricks. A great day all in all and in a great venue. Alex will be running future workshops so keep an eye out for more workshop goodness.

With thanks to our models Jane (http://purestorm.com/profile.aspx?id=lady_galaxy92), Danielle (http://www.modelmayhem.com/676727) and Juliet.

Here are my pics of the model that my group worked with, Jane and my fellow photographers.

Lighting practice:

Jane

Jane portrait

These ones are natural light:

Jane in the Big Blue

Jane in thought

Jane in light

Jane en vogue

Britain’s next top model, James Bailey

Britain's next top model

Reluctant model Lizi

Alex Beckett in action

Ian Francis & Lizi Cosslett

Ian Francis and Lizi Cosslett

Martin Pemberton striking a pose as The Godfather

The Godfather pose

Matthew Roach strikes his own pose!

Matthew Roach

Neil (RattyBoots on Flickr)

Neil

Martin Drake

Martin Drake

Caroline Alexander

Caroline Alexander

Martin Gillman

Martin Gillman

James Bailey

James Bailey

Benjamin Edwards

Benjamin Edwards

Kristy Field

Kristy Field

Lizi & Ian

Lizi Cosslett and Ian Francis

Nicola Ferguson

Nicola Ferguson

Jane striking a pose

Lights camera action

Behind the scenes

Matt and Jane

Martin having a break

Martin at work

Happy hour

Caroline Alexander and Alex Beckett

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