TCOL Workshop

I spent all day Saturday and Sunday at Matt Granger’s Take Control of the Light portrait photography workshop. The studio was located in a nondescript business area in central urban LA. It was fun to learn some of the lessons in person, and to get some hands on practice with different equipment. It was also a chance to work with some talented models. There were eight students with a range of experience. One guy was a professional portrait photographer and he knew how to take charge and work with the models. After two days, I was exhausted, crouching up and down trying to get shots and felt like I’d been working out. I was happy with a number of shots I came away with, but I could have been less timid working with the models. Something to learn more about in the future. A good approach was to assign us to identify some images and then to try and reproduce them. My favorite shot was inspired by an image I saw, but it’s very different too.