coffee-shop class #8: wrap-up
09.09.08 | coffee-shop
class
as the old chinese proverb goes, “ you can give a
man a fish, he’ll eat for a day. you can teach a
man to fish, he’ll eat for a lifetime.”
while i am no teacher of fisherman, a few from the denver photography community enjoyed tonight’s coffee-shop class. the goal of our 90 minutes was to explore simple one-light techniques on metering with a flash. the cliff notes version goes like this... when using off-camera lighting:
1. be the boss of your camera: shoot in manual
2. remember every image has two exposures: the subject and the background. the shutter speed controls background exposure while aperture controls subject exposure.
chatti & matt from savady photography with john heisel (lower left), doing his thing:
here’s our group self-portrait shot putting together a bit of what was discussed (pictured left-to-right: kevin von qualen, moi, jennifer schumacher, dawn gioia, cheri pica, vania hardtle, chatti & matt from savady photography, john heisel, and steve gaudin).
tech notes: manual metered using a nikon d-700, 28-70mm lens, 1/180 at f/8, iso 100, white balance 5300K, and lit with a lumedyne strobe at 100 W/S at distance of 10-12 feet:
while i am no teacher of fisherman, a few from the denver photography community enjoyed tonight’s coffee-shop class. the goal of our 90 minutes was to explore simple one-light techniques on metering with a flash. the cliff notes version goes like this... when using off-camera lighting:
1. be the boss of your camera: shoot in manual
2. remember every image has two exposures: the subject and the background. the shutter speed controls background exposure while aperture controls subject exposure.
chatti & matt from savady photography with john heisel (lower left), doing his thing:
here’s our group self-portrait shot putting together a bit of what was discussed (pictured left-to-right: kevin von qualen, moi, jennifer schumacher, dawn gioia, cheri pica, vania hardtle, chatti & matt from savady photography, john heisel, and steve gaudin).
tech notes: manual metered using a nikon d-700, 28-70mm lens, 1/180 at f/8, iso 100, white balance 5300K, and lit with a lumedyne strobe at 100 W/S at distance of 10-12 feet: