Today some images from the Small flash workshop I taught in Santa Cruz.
As you might know I use the Rogue flashbender products a lot and over the last few years we have been become close friends to the team at Expoimaging, which resulted in the invite to visit their headoffice in Santa Cruz after PhotoShopWorld and if possible teach a workshop there. Working with small flash on location is something I love to do and teaching a workshop with only small flash is without a doubt not only fun but also a challenge, especially in the bright sun as you can find in California, this is not helped by the fact that I will often limited myself to just using 2 strobes because not all attendees will be able to afford 10-20 strobes. In other words one has to be creative 🙂

 

When I teach a workshop on location I always choose for smaller groups, this way it’s easier to give attention to the questions from the attendees and it has less chance of becoming just a “shooting zoo” which I think is a waste of time, when you attend a workshop it’s about the learning process right?

 

As always I started out with a Q&A session in which the attendees can ask whatever they want, this is actually always a fun and most of all a very informative part of the workshop because there always is a mix of technical and business like questions, plus I can really go into the questions the students have at this point instead of doing something that is “standard”. After the Q&A it was time to leave for our location shoot…. the Beach.

 

For this workshop we managed to find two stunning models which really complemented each other (something that not always happens).
The first setup was a mix of natural light and strobes, meaning that I started out with natural light and later on added the strobes.

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