One-2-One Training – Dale
So I have just got back from Dubai photographing a circus (more of that in a future post!) and the first thing on my plate is another of my personal, hands-on, one-to-one training courses. My latest student on this 2 day course was Dale who is looking to hone her skills with a view to a more permanent role as photographer. And she is good.
One of those people with a natural eye. I loved this course, because Dale came with a Nikon D70 and the original push/pull 80-200 f2.8 pro lens. My first digital Nikon was a D70 back in the day, and it was great to hold it again – if only to see the rather large improvements to aspects of the camera – not least being trying to understand how I ever coped with the 1 inch low resolution screen on the back to preview the images! I mean, c’mon guys, we look at the images in huge detail now and can make a decision on the viability or not of an image based on what we can see on the back of the camera with our 3inch plus hi-res screens and detailed focus capability. How did we manage before? (Well, we are good photographers, right…) In fact my best selling picture of a cow in a misty field was taken with the D70, so there you go.
As usual, and to really explain directional and strobe lighting, we had a model. Louisa came on board the day before the shoot because my booked model had cancelled – there is something about male models who seem too scared to turn up for my shoots! Why is that, I wonder?
Still Louisa was brilliant, and Dale, well she was “rock and roll” and got some great images using a few set-ups.
In all, another great course – I really enjoy them. Dale has just sent me an email….:
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