{"id":347,"date":"2011-05-07T15:24:16","date_gmt":"2011-05-07T15:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marieman.com\/blog\/?p=347"},"modified":"2011-05-10T01:01:58","modified_gmt":"2011-05-10T01:01:58","slug":"lighting-workshop-with-alex-beckett-goldbrick-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marieman.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/lighting-workshop-with-alex-beckett-goldbrick-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Lighting Workshop with Alex Beckett, Goldbrick House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Jane\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2639\/5696502938_ba87a5bc75_o.jpg\" alt=\"A portrait of Jane\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Last year, Cambridge-based photographer Alex Beckett (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.alexbeckett.co.uk\">www.alexbeckett.co.uk<\/a>) 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!<\/p>\n<p>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!<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>With thanks to our models Jane (<a href=\"http:\/\/purestorm.com\/profile.aspx?id=lady_galaxy92\">http:\/\/purestorm.com\/profile.aspx?id=lady_galaxy92<\/a>), Danielle (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.modelmayhem.com\/676727\">http:\/\/www.modelmayhem.com\/676727<\/a>)\u00a0and Juliet.<\/p>\n<p>Here are my pics of the model that my group worked with, Jane and my fellow photographers.<\/p>\n<p>Lighting practice:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/marieman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/110327-LightingWorkshop-AlexBeckett\/DSC_0157edit.jpg\" alt=\"Jane\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/marieman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/110327-LightingWorkshop-AlexBeckett\/DSC_0173edit copy.jpg\" alt=\"Jane portrait\" \/><\/p>\n<p>These ones are natural light:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/marieman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/110327-LightingWorkshop-AlexBeckett\/DSC_0180edit.jpg\" alt=\"Jane in the Big Blue\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/marieman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/110327-LightingWorkshop-AlexBeckett\/DSC_0214edit.jpg\" alt=\"Jane in thought\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/marieman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/110327-LightingWorkshop-AlexBeckett\/DSC_0232edit copy.jpg\" alt=\"Jane in light\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/marieman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/110327-LightingWorkshop-AlexBeckett\/DSC_0262edit copy.jpg\" alt=\"Jane en vogue\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Britain&#8217;s next top model, James Bailey<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/marieman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/110327-LightingWorkshop-AlexBeckett\/DSC_0028edit.jpg\" alt=\"Britain's next top model\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Reluctant model Lizi<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/marieman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/110327-LightingWorkshop-AlexBeckett\/DSC_0038edit.jpg\" alt=\"Alex Beckett in action\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ian Francis &amp; Lizi Cosslett<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/marieman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/110327-LightingWorkshop-AlexBeckett\/DSC_0050edit copy.jpg\" alt=\"Ian Francis and Lizi Cosslett\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Martin Pemberton striking a pose as The Godfather<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/marieman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/110327-LightingWorkshop-AlexBeckett\/DSC_0058edit.jpg\" alt=\"The Godfather pose\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Matthew Roach strikes his own pose!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/marieman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/110327-LightingWorkshop-AlexBeckett\/DSC_0059edit.jpg\" alt=\"Matthew Roach\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Neil (RattyBoots on Flickr)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/marieman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/110327-LightingWorkshop-AlexBeckett\/DSC_0072edit.jpg\" alt=\"Neil\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Martin Drake<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/marieman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/110327-LightingWorkshop-AlexBeckett\/DSC_0076edit.jpg\" alt=\"Martin Drake\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Caroline Alexander<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/marieman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/110327-LightingWorkshop-AlexBeckett\/DSC_0077edit.jpg\" alt=\"Caroline Alexander\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Martin Gillman<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/marieman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/110327-LightingWorkshop-AlexBeckett\/DSC_0078edit.jpg\" alt=\"Martin Gillman\" \/><\/p>\n<p>James Bailey<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/marieman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/110327-LightingWorkshop-AlexBeckett\/DSC_0081edit.jpg\" alt=\"James Bailey\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Benjamin Edwards<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/marieman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/110327-LightingWorkshop-AlexBeckett\/DSC_0083edit.jpg\" alt=\"Benjamin Edwards\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Kristy Field<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/marieman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/110327-LightingWorkshop-AlexBeckett\/DSC_0084edit.jpg\" alt=\"Kristy Field\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Lizi &amp; Ian<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/marieman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/110327-LightingWorkshop-AlexBeckett\/DSC_0088edit.jpg\" alt=\"Lizi Cosslett and Ian Francis\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Nicola Ferguson<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/marieman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/110327-LightingWorkshop-AlexBeckett\/DSC_0091edit copy.jpg\" alt=\"Nicola Ferguson\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/marieman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/110327-LightingWorkshop-AlexBeckett\/DSC_0114edit.jpg\" alt=\"Jane striking a pose\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/marieman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/110327-LightingWorkshop-AlexBeckett\/DSC_0115edit.jpg\" alt=\"Lights camera action\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/marieman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/110327-LightingWorkshop-AlexBeckett\/DSC_0119edit.jpg\" alt=\"Behind the scenes\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/marieman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/110327-LightingWorkshop-AlexBeckett\/DSC_0176edit.jpg\" alt=\"Matt and Jane\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/marieman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/110327-LightingWorkshop-AlexBeckett\/DSC_0191edit.jpg\" alt=\"Martin having a break\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/marieman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/110327-LightingWorkshop-AlexBeckett\/DSC_0204edit.jpg\" alt=\"Martin at work\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/marieman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/110327-LightingWorkshop-AlexBeckett\/DSC_0269edit.jpg\" alt=\"Happy hour\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/marieman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/110327-LightingWorkshop-AlexBeckett\/DSC_0272edit.jpg\" alt=\"Caroline Alexander and Alex Beckett\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,73],"tags":[75,242,77,74,76,79,25,244,78,248],"class_list":["post-347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meetup","category-workshop","tag-alex-beckett","tag-bristol","tag-flash","tag-goldbrick-house","tag-lighting","tag-models","tag-photographers","tag-photography","tag-strobism-2","tag-workshop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marieman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marieman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marieman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marieman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marieman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/marieman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":358,"href":"https:\/\/marieman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions\/358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marieman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marieman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marieman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}