This class is a step-by-step introduction to modern studio flash equipment and the techniques that enable photographers to harness studio lighting.

Explore beautiful light (hard/soft, warm/cold, high key/low key, shadows, and highlights) and learn the quality of light created using today’s flash hardware. Students will learn how components of flash systems work and experiment with various lighting scenarios. Subjects covered will include:

• Flash safety

• Modeling lights

• Power packs/monolights

• Synching with camera

• Reflectors

• Key/fill/kicker lights

• Softboxes

• Umbrellas

• Scrims

• Flags

• Gobos and more

Participants are encouraged to bring in a sample (magazine clipping, digital file, photograph, etc.) of a lighting technique that they would like to emulate.