On Tuesday Night, I had 15 photographers come to my studio for a presentation and class on Photographing Children in Natural Light. I was asked to teach the program for a 4 Night Series by my Professional Photography Group - PPBGA. We met in the studio for a while, where I showed a slideshow of my work focused on natural lifestyle photography of newborns, babies, children, teens and families I also had my good friends and fellow photographers Jeanne DePolo, Stefanie Herzer and Kimberly Sayre there to help me (Thanks Girls!), as well as my Studio Manager Nicole - who helps me always and in all ways :D
After the slideshow, we hit the streets outside of the studio at around 7:00pm for some hands on natural light photography in the urban industrial area near my studio with three models - Sula (24), my glamorous oldest daughter, and two of Nicole's three daughters - Abbie (12) and Chloe (8). Working with reflectors, gobos and diffusers, we broke up into groups and each group had a model to work with. Most of the photographers who attend the 4 nights are new to the subject at hand - so our focus was learning how to look for good available light and when to add light with reflectors and subtract light with gobos or diffusers. The class was a big success - and here are a few images sent in from the class members... Stefanie Herzer (first three), Kim Sayre(fourth)
and finally Patricia Finn - who sent me this image of a woman she took a picture of the next day when she was in a restuarant and still thinking about the class - and noticed this beautiful light on this lady, and took this picture. And that is what it is all about - looking for the light where ever you are. Go Patricia!