Mastering Your Flash
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If you feel confident with a camera but less so with a flash, and would like to master portable lights, this workshop is for you. Our goal is to learn how to utilize flash so well that the outcome looks like beautiful ambient light. We work with flash in various lighting situations, using it both as the main source of light and as a fill light.
Among the topics covered are the differences between flash in manual mode and automatic (TTL) mode, how to determine exposure, controlling the light output of flash, ways ot diffuse flash, and how and why to include to exclude ambient light. In addition to demonstrations of using flash in a direct or bounce mode, on or off the camera, and in the wireless mode, our days include critiques and time for practicing various flash techniques on location with models.
Julia Dean is the founder of the Julia Dean Photo Workshops. Throughout her career, she has traveled to more than 40 countries while freelancing for numerous relief groups and magazines. She is also the author/photographer of the children’s book, A Year on Monhegan Island. Julia received a Bachelor of Science degree in photography at the Rochester Institute of Technology and a Master of Arts degree in journalism at the University of Nebraska. She began her career as an apprentice to famed photographer Berenice Abbott. Later, Julia was a photo editor for the Associated Press in New York. She has taught for 25 years at such places as the University of Nebraska, Los Angeles Valley College, Los Angeles Southwest College, Santa Monica College, the Santa Fe Workshops, the Maine Photographic Workshops and the Julia Dean Photo Workshops.
