This week I went to a fantastic workshop that I’d been looking forward to for a long time–the OneLight Workshop. I can’t remember how I first heard about it, but it’s been a year or so at least since I first discovered it and started hearing amazing things about it. So last fall when I saw San Diego on the list of cities for 2008, I registered as fast as I could. (No time to waste, they always sell out.)
I learned a ton about lighting portraits using only one single light and all the options and choices using a light can give you over just using available light. The workshop lasted from 10 am until a little after 2 am, so it was a looong day, but SO worth it. I am so excited to practice everything we learned.
Here are a few photos I shot at the workshop. The first one shows the subject shot with only natural light, and the second shows (almost) the same composition but lit with a flash off to camera-right. I actually like both of these photos–but what a difference there is! Totally different looks.
And then a few others from the day…all lit by one light off camera. It was uncharacteristically cold that day, so we were all pretty cold when we were shooting at the beach…hence the blanket the subject has wrapped around her!
(She’s a professional archer and was on the U.S. Olympic Archery Team in 2000. Very cool.)
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