Small Light, Big Results: Unleashing the Power of Your Portable Flash

Class Description

The small portable shoe-mount speedlights have become the only lighting tools for many photographers. Compactness, wireless capabilities, combined with numerous available after-market accessories (soft-boxes, grids, snoots, ring flash) can replicate lighting techniques that were once limited to big, expensive studio strobes requiring a large investment and an available power source.

These portable dedicated flashes go even a step beyond and offer something that is unattainable by the “big” strobes and that is wireless adjustment, high speed synch, and unique flash placement. This two-evening class will help you understand how to use portable flashes to their best potential and achieve desired lighting effects. A short lecture will be followed by a lighting demonstration and various areas to practice what you've learned.

The instructor and assistant will be available to help with any hands-on learning from the class.

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Topics that will be discussed and demonstrated:

The objective is to show participants how portable flashes and accesories can be used to achieve lighting techniques that were previously achieved only with high-end strobe systems and also go-beyond what was doable with the “expensive” lighting kits

Class Requirements

Because this class will be about using lighting equipment a basic understanding of photography will be helpful to get the most from this class.

Also required: Digital SLR, memory card, card reader.

Please bring any portable lighting equipment including; speedlites, remote transmitters, light modifiers, off camera cables.

We will have various speedlites and accessories for you to try if you have none of your own.

This class is limited to 15 students.

Class Schedule

Date	Start Time	End Time	Location
Monday, December 15th, 2014	6:30 PM	9:00 PM	Photo Coop Studio
Wednesday, December 17th, 2014	6:30 PM	9:00 PM	Photo Coop Studio

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About the Instructor

Ryan Rich: Rich's career has spanned from staff newspaper photographer to location photographer for trade journals, corporations and non profits. Along with his current location assignments, Rich is a adjunct professor at Ai Minnesota, where he teaches Location and Editorial Photography. Other than having his worked used to wrap fish, his images have been featured in Graphis (International journal of visual communication). Rich has a personable easy going style.