The last three weeks I joined an advanced portrait photography workshop… for beginners. A while back I subscribed for the workshop on the website of the CKE (center for arts). It would be an advanced workshop for portrait photography. I missed the first class because I was in China, and when I attended the second class they secretly changed the name of the course to “beginners and advanced course in portrait photography”. The course explained the use of studio flashes and continuous studio lighting and gave the attendees the possibility to work with the equipment of the school. Which is nice for beginners, but I would imagine that advanced portrait photographers might have already known a thing or two about basic studio lighting.
Apparently the teacher had explained the class on the first lesson (which I missed) that they would have to arrange their own models for a photo shoot at the school on Saturday. I only heard this on Wednesday so I had to call and stress around for some models. Luckily Neda was willing to model in the morning and my photographer friend Odette arranged a model (Nasha) for the afternoon. Adrienne went along to model for me when neither Neda nor Nasha were around, so everything worked out great.
I took along my own studio lights (after you have used the Elinchrom flashes you don’t want to get anywhere near the Falcon Eyes set they use at the school) and took some interesting pictures that day. It was nice to use the environment of the building in my shots. I can’t say I learned anything from the course, but at least I ended up with some extra pictures for my web site.