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So You Want to Learn More About Lighting…

Chris Gampat
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06/10/2013
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This week, creativeLive is doing their Lighting Toolkit workshop series. During the workshops, we’ll be sponsoring the giveaway of a pair of PocketWizard Plus X triggers and we’ll also be sharing a couple of resources with you later on this week that are exclusive to Phoblographer readers. We’ll be showing you an interview with photographer Rick Friedman and course clips from Lindsay Adler’s sessions.

Hit the jump for even more info from creativeLive themselves.

Five Lighting Professionals. Five free workshops. Five full days. This week, our friends over at creativeLIVE will host their first ever Lighting Toolkit event — a series of courses dedicated to exploring lighting theory, as well as the techniques and methods used to capture world-class photographs. Guided by a different award-winning photographer each day, you’ll learn fashion lighting essentials, photojournalism, reverse-engineering setups, flash techniques, and more. Here’s the lineup:

June 12: Creative Studio Lighting with Lindsay Adler: Lindsay will introduce you to the basics of studio lighting and show you how to weave in your own creative touch to the shoot. Along the way, you’ll explore unusual light modifiers, crafty ways for working with limited gear, tips for ensuring that light is flattering, and more!

June 13: Quick Location Lighting with Rick Friedman: During his course, Rick will share the techniques he’s learned during his three decades of shooting presidents, scientists, and the world’s brightest innovators. You’ll master doing more with less equipment, finding the light in a wide variety of settings, lighting locations quickly, and more.

June 14: Speedlights with Roberto Valenzuela: Speedlights are an effective way to precisely control flare and create glow. Roberto will unveil his step-by-step formulas for creating the perfect scene and share his “go to ” settings.

June 15: Natural Light Control with Tony Corbell: Tony will guide you through the basics of light quality, quantity, and direction. His unique methods will resonate with amateurs, seasoned professionals, and everyone in between.

June 16: Hack Your Light with Chuck Arlund: On location, in the studio and everywhere in-between, Chuck is going to showcase his skills capturing amazing images using a wide variety of lighting techniques.

During the event, you can win some amazing prizes like a think TANK Photo Retrospective Camera Bag, Rogue portrait lighting kit, Westcott Parabolic Umbrella 20×24, copies of Resource Magazine and a Pocket Wizard Plus X courtesy of us!

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Chris Gampat is the Editor in Chief, Founder, and Publisher of the Phoblographer. He provides oversight to all of the daily tasks, including editorial, administrative, and advertising work. Chris's editorial work includes not only editing and scheduling articles but also writing them himself. He's the author of various product guides, educational pieces, product reviews, and interviews with photographers. He's fascinated by how photographers create, considering the fact that he's legally blind./ HIGHLIGHTS: Chris used to work in Men's lifestyle and tech. He's a veteran technology writer, editor, and reviewer with more than 15 years experience. He's also a Photographer that has had his share of bylines and viral projects like "Secret Order of the Slice." PAST BYLINES: Gear Patrol, PC Mag, Geek.com, Digital Photo Pro, Resource Magazine, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, IGN, PDN, and others. EXPERIENCE: Chris Gampat began working in tech and art journalism both in 2008. He started at PCMag, Magnum Photos, and Geek.com. He founded the Phoblographer in 2009 after working at places like PDN and Photography Bay. He left his day job as the Social Media Content Developer at B&H Photo in the early 2010s. Since then, he's evolved as a publisher using AI ethically, coming up with ethical ways to bring in affiliate income, and preaching the word of diversity in the photo industry. His background and work has spread to non-profits like American Photographic Arts where he's done work to get photographers various benefits. His skills are in SEO, app development, content planning, ethics management, photography, Wordpress, and other things. EDUCATION: Chris graduated Magna Cum Laude from Adelphi University with a degree in Communications in Journalism in 2009. Since then, he's learned and adapted to various things in the fields of social media, SEO, app development, e-commerce development, HTML, etc. FAVORITE SUBJECT TO PHOTOGRAPH: Chris enjoys creating conceptual work that makes people stare at his photos. But he doesn't get to do much of this because of the high demand of photography content. / BEST PHOTOGRAPHY TIP: Don't do it in post-production when you can do it in-camera.
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