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Monday, February 23, 2009

Photowalking Utah: Recapping the Studio Lighting Event

Photowalking Utah,  Studio Lighting Event
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This past Saturday I again had the honor of hosting the Studio Lighting event for Photowalking Utah. Much like the inaugural event last year, this was an indoor photowalk consisting of multiple studio lighting setups for the participating photographers to demo. The idea of an indoor photowalk was hatched last year as a way of doing a winter event without having to brave the unpredictable weather of Northern Utah.

Photowalking Utah - Behind the Scenes 2

For this year's outing, we had seven different 'studios' for the photographers to shoot in. In planning the setups, I worked with the volunteer 'studio hosts' to have a variety of styles for the photographers to shoot. This worked rather well. The setup themes were: Speedlight, Natural Light, Stock, Bridal Portrait, Fashion, Group Posing and Dramatic.

Photowalking Utah - Behind the Scenes 3

Each of the setups featured models for the participants to photograph. I have to say that our models went above-and-beyond for the three hours of the event to make sure that the photographers were able to capture the images they sought.

Photowalking Utah - Behind the Scenes 1

The 'studio host' was available at each setup to assist the shooter with exposure, syncing, model direction and anything else they needed assistance with. Not only did these hosts bring all their own lighting equipment, but they had to essentially work the entire time. It is volunteers like this that make Photowalking Utah a success. This year's hosts were: Dale Welcome, Scott Smith, Ann Torrence, David Terry, Mike Calanan, Mark Abercrombie, Kim Guanzon and Ed Paz (who manned my setup).

Photowalking Utah - Behind the Scenes 4

By the end, over 120 photographers had participated in the event. I'm thoroughly impressed with the samples I'm seeing coming into the Photowalking Utah Flickr Group. It is really interesting to see the variety of results created using the same models/lights.

Photowalking Utah - Behind the Scenes 5

It's been an exhausting few days for me between teaching last Thursday's Mini-Clinic and hosting Saturday's Photowalk. But I've got to say it has also been extremely rewarding. Thank you to everyone who came out and supported this month's events.

Big Thanks to:

Gateway Community Church - Location sponsor
Pictureline - Door Prize sponsor
Pixels - Door Prize sponsor
Kenneth Linge - Grand Prize sponsor

...and the models: Andrew, Alyssa, Kylee, Ron, Elisabeth, Mady, Brittanie, Sarah, Emily and Laarni

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6 Comments:

Blogger Paul said...

Rich, it was a great event. Thanks again for your willingness to help us all learn!

February 23, 2009  
Blogger dterryphotography said...

Great wrap up Rich. Thanks to you and everyone else involved (including the people who showed up to learn and have fun).

P.S.
Can you fix my link above (the on you put on my name) and put www in front? i.e. http://www.dterryphotography.com/

Apparently it doesn't go anywhere without the www (which is news to me, not sure why).

February 23, 2009  
Blogger Unknown said...

Rich it was a fantastic event! Thanks for putting so much work into the event. And a mighty thanks to the models and photog hosts! It just continues to show why Photowalking Utah is such a huge success, everyone helps everyone!

February 23, 2009  
Blogger Debbi_in_California said...

Thanks for the setup shots Rich!
Look at the smiles on everyones faces! What a fun time!
Debbi

February 23, 2009  
Blogger Suzanne Plant said...

Thanks for 2 AMAZING photowalks. I learned so much. Thanks for all the work and effort. You are so great!

February 24, 2009  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

This is a great post, you can get a decent idea of some lighting set ups. Those are some of my favorite things to read about and one of the hardest to find good examples of. Thanks for doing all that you do on the blog!

March 03, 2009  

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