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:
These ones are natural light:
Britain’s next top model, James Bailey
Reluctant model Lizi
Ian Francis & Lizi Cosslett
Martin Pemberton striking a pose as The Godfather
Matthew Roach strikes his own pose!
Neil (RattyBoots on Flickr)
Martin Drake
Caroline Alexander
Martin Gillman
James Bailey
Benjamin Edwards
Kristy Field
Lizi & Ian
Nicola Ferguson
