Always Learning

A month or so ago, I taut a night class at Brown Collage  for 6 weeks. I was filling in for a photo instructor.  My class was on portraiture,  on location.  You never know what you know until you have to teach it.  It was a great experience.  the students taut me a thing or to also.  It made me want to get my Abobe Expert Certification. I'm working on Lightroom 2 now and then I'm going to do Photoshop.  I should  be taking my test in a couple of weeks. 

This is how I bounce

My last post I mentioned the California Sun Bounce equipment I just purchased. I finally had the opportunity to use it .  One of the advantages of the  CSB system is it takes bad light and makes it good  usable light.  The images were shot with the sun back lighting the subject. This is bad, because I would normally have to add additional lights to the front of the subject to  full in or over power the suns effect.  Instead I , placed the Sun swatter over the subject and the added a sun Pro reflector in the front to fill in the face of the subject.  It only took a couple of minuets.  this Stuff just opens a lot of opportunity for me to be more creative in how I approach a shot. 

Yes I Bounce

I just received my Sunbounce Sun Swatter.  Whats that? well is a  light modifying tool.  Check out  a video on it here.

It better describes what it can do.  I've had my eye on one for a couple of  years. Unfortunately its overcast today and I cant test it out.  But I will have a chance later, I have a annual report project cumming up next week.  It will help a lot.  Its all outdoors shots. And the Sunbouce will help in controlling the light from the sun. So I'll be able to shoot at any time of the day. This will help in the scheduling the people for the project.