Thanks Bruce. Well, all other guys were with their bulky canons and nikons. Few people, including Joe's assistant Drew asked me what lens I was using - I had my 21mm on. They were amazed by size :) And yes, everybody was working with i-ttl, e-ttl whatever it is called. I used Joe's Pocket Wizards. We always used other photographers in our small group as intelligent light stands so there was no problems and everything went fast.
I live in Mountain View, CA - a small town south to San Francisco. I think Joe has some assignment somewhere at this coast, thus workshops. Thanks, --Sasha On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 5:51 AM, Bruce Walker<[email protected]> wrote: > Sasha Sobol wrote: >> >> First the link: http://www.flickr.com/photos/sobol/sets/72157621777152377 >> >> The workshop consisted of four parts : >> In the first part (short) Joe showed some photos of him and commented on >> them. >> Second part: he showed how would use some of the equipment (starting >> with one flash on camera, moving up to four lights in different >> set-ups, commenting all the way and showing what he shoot on a >> laptop). That was cool and very educational. >> Third part: we, in group of four were assigned to model (or she was >> assigned to us), grabbed whatever equipment we needed and went out >> and shoot for four hours. >> Joe circled around, help a bit here and there. >> Oh, I forgot to say that in the middle of second part Moose Peterson >> came, with his family - Joe did not expect him coming but it was >> obviously a pleasant surprise. >> Moose also helped here and there a little. >> Third part - a quick wrap-up. That was done too fast I think - too >> many frames shoot (20 photographers, 4 hours, some shoot series). >> >> Overall I was a nice experience. >> Models were great, especially Crystal - the one that we four worked with. >> >> Compared to Zack Arias's workshop i attended before... >> Well, this was completely different. >> Here we had complete freedom, so we made more mistakes, some set-up I >> failed to anything from. >> With Zack we would create a set-up himself so we are were starting from >> that. >> >> I do not know which i like more. >> >> Some (ir)relevant information: >> Pentax K20d, 21mm& 77mm primes. >> >> Thanks, >> --Sasha > > Very cool, Sasha. Did you take any ribbing about not being a Nikon or Canon > shooter? :-) I presume flash triggering in the lighting setups was all done > with loaned Pocket Wizards. > > Just curious, which city did you catch his workshop in? He doesn't ever > seem to come up to Canada (I think perhaps there are some issues with > photographers crossing the border into Canada to work), so I've been idly > pondering the cost of a flight to New York to catch him there. > > Really glad to hear you enjoyed the experience. I really like his writing > style and the general exuberance he displays for the entire process. Just > reading his Hot Shoe Diaries was a great learning experience and inspired me > to dig right in seriously to lighting. > > Thanks for the review and gallery. > > -bmw > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
