from the 2009 category

We really love the lighting photography workshops that we are able to do and get so excited to share what we have learned with other shooters! The great thing about the lighting workshops is we keep the classes super small to maximize the learning time. When we launched the first class in the OC it filled up so fast we decided to open an additional class, hence our third day of IN-CAMERA photography workshops in Laguna Beach!

Our heart behind our workshops is that we really want you (our attendees!) to walk away with the tools to do the same thing yourself, not just get a couple of cool shots. So we really take the day slow and let each photographer set up the light rig themselves, meter the lights and compose their shot. That way, they will be able to walk away and re-create their own version of some awesome off-camera lighting.

Both days started off great and we had a fun time talking through some of the techniques that we use in order to quickly and efficiently set up our lighting shots.

Thanks to Chris Robertson for shooting these shots with our camera!

Then, after lunch we headed out to set up our first few shots!! All of the following images have no Photoshop enhancements and are pretty much straight out of the camera with some very minor adjustments done in Adobe Lightroom that took about two second to do.

Our model Jesiree workin it!

Here is a little behind the scenes shot of our next set up using our Westcott lighting rig.

And the resulting image.

Here is another behind-the-scenes image of our set up down at the beach. These were shot about 1.5 hours before sunset when the natural light was still pretty bright.

The resulting image ended up being one of my favorite that I took during the whole series of photo workshops here in California.

We also demonstrated a two light set-up to show everyone the effect of adding another kicker light to camera left.

Our other lighting workshop was awesome as well and we got some really cool shots out on the beach!

Our model Kahala was super cool too and rocked it out for us below!! Thanks also to Brooke for doing such an amazing job as well!

Day One Group!

Day Two Group!

It was super amazing coming out to So Cal and we can’t wait to come back! We keep getting requests for holding a business workshop out here, so let us know if you are interested in us coming back and we just might be there sooner than you think!

This week we have been in the great state of California conducting our IN-CAMERA photography workshops and we have been having a blast!!  We are meeting so many great photographers and pumping out a lot of golden nuggets of information.

A HUGE thanks goes out to the amazing and fabulous Mapuana who was our point person on the ground and made it happen for us to come to California!

A second thank-you goes to David of Tosti Studios who let us takeover his studio for 3 days.  His studio is at a killer spot, right on the North Coast Highway facing the beautiful Laguna Beach and was perfect for the teaching portions of our workshops!!

Here is a little visual highlight of our sold out Shooting & Post class (limited to 20 students)… winner of the farthest traveler goes to Josh who flew in all the way from Ohio!

In this shot you can really see how many photographers were there shooting. It was sooo fun!!

And of course we ended the shoot taking some silhouette shots as the sun began to set!

Here we are with David Tosti posing it up!

And the very last part of the workshop is taking class attendants through our post production process, and showing shortcuts and tricks on how we are able to post an entire wedding of approx 1200 images in approx 2.5 hours.

The Shooting & Post group!

Fun, fun time. Great weather. Great beach. Great models. Great photogs. LOVE IT!