Leaving Rockport, Maine, today and my class in mastering flash with Arlene Collins at the Maine Media Workshops. This is our class photo, engineered by Ms. Collins. She is putting. Our two wonderful teaching assistants, Jason Esposito and Vanessa Tierney, are in front. I'm to the teacher's left.Thanks are also due to my classmates, Ted Lieverman, Kelley De Bettancourt, Francie Bishop Good and Elizabeth Albritton. Always cheerful and helpful, glad to share their experience and encouraging to their classmates.
Really good week. I learned how to use those &%@*^# flash units. I learned the steps in the speedlighting process (manual mode, expose for the ambient light, vary all the parameters as needed, use light modifiers as needed and check the results on the computer, not your camera. Thanks to Ted for the analysis.) Now I'm ready to go out and screw up these techniques on the streets of St. Louis. Practice and time will help get me there.
These weeks here at camera camp in Maine are as happy as I can get. No pressures from ordinary life. Just creativity and good people. Hope I can come back again.
