Shaping Lights Workshop and fabulous people
Few weeks ago Fabiana and I held the first “Shaping Lights” workshop. We decided to keep the number of participants pretty low this time, mainly to test ourselves, to see how we would have been able to cope with questions and with the general teaching part. I planned to have three hours of theoretical course and five hours of practice and everything went as planned. I dealt with all the technical stuff, while Fabiana handled all the part relative to the model management, something that is completely underestimated by many photographers.
The day went smoothly and in the end we were very happy of the result we got from our fantastic participants. As expected the hiccups are always the same: dealing with the models, understanding the initial math for the f-stops, dealing with the models, getting all the information and trying to play with the variables of exposure and dealing with the models. Yes, I know that I have written the same thing three times, but that part is extremely important and it is a part that it is highly underestimated by many photographers.
When you, as a photographer, find yourself in front of models for the first time you do what every photographer do: you take photos. What you do not realise, especially when you have all the information about f-stops, light, flash power, ISO, aperture… is that you have a human being in front of you. A human being that, by lucky chance, is your subject. When this happen every photographer should understand that there is something much more important than f-stops: the relation with your subject.
During our workshop we underlined this a lot. One of the reason was that we had some really fantastic people around, who were able to get the technical part pretty quickly, and because like every photographer facing models for the fist time they did not expect such a strong psychological involvement.
Are you interested in the Shaping Lights Workshops? Fabiana and I will hold another one in October, so if you want to jump on board you can contact me!
And what did I get from this workshop? Well, one of the most important thing for me was that I was able to underline my love for teaching photography, trying to being all my passion in this Workshop. Then I had the possibility to work with some amazing people. Fabiana, with whom I am always side to side, Zuzanna, our amazingly talented makeup artist and, in this case, Kamil, a model that exceeded our expectations in every sense. Working with such dedicated and professional people is always an incredible pleasure, because they help things falling exactly where you planned them to fall. If you are interested in working with these top-class people you can ask me their details!
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