Yesterday I had the great privilege to teach my very first lighting class. I was extremely nervous at first, but once it started going, it all came natural.
As you know, a lot of my photographs are very fashion oriented and high impact on light. But the techniques that I taught were not to overkill the photo with light, but add a visual impact to the photograph that created depth and value to the images.
The students were a bunch of natural light wedding photographers who were interested in taking their photography to the next level by adding a bit of artificial light to their natural light photographs.
We went over the basics of equipment and lighting techniques, and taught them that less is more. I actually didn’t take any photos myself (Because I forgot both my batteries and memory cards elsewhere) and so all I got was this group photograph.
Overall, this was a huge amount of fun! I have only just taught people here and there some basics, but having an actual class and 4 students really changed my mind on teaching. It was the hardest thing to do, until doing it.
I would love to do this again, many times!
I can’t wait to see the photos that the students were getting!
