Boxing...

We wrapped up another successful speedlight bootcamp at Vancouver Photo Workshops on the week-end.  Thanks must go out to; all of our fabulous models, Madhava for organizing all of our gear and making sure it got from one place to another intact, and especially to Scotty Jackson for allowing us to use his incredible boxing gym.  As I mentioned in a previous post, you will never find a more authentic gym, ANYWHERE!

Not only did Scotty provide the location, he got us two great fighters as well, Abdul and Darcy.  While you couldn't meet two nicer guys, true gentlemen, there's not enough money in the world to get me to step into the ring with either of them.  Watching these two hit the heavy bag, well let's just say, it tends to focus the mind.

I wanted to share a couple of pictures from our shoot.  The first was a single light with Abdul, the second a multi-light set-up with Darcy.

This was the only time that Abdul's hands weren't just a blur of red, this dude is quick.

More after the jump..

Monday...

Check back here on Monday for some news...

Fashion Shoot...

It's widely known and accepted that I am a big time fashion photographer.  I'm an expert at this stuff, you know, Malcolm Gladwell; 10,000 hours and all that that stuff

O.K. maybe not.  So, when I needed to show my Langara College students how to run a fashion shoot, I knew I'd have to turn it over to an expert.  Photographer, David Ellingsen is that guy.  David shoots a variety of things, and he's an expert at all of them.  While I am very comfortable talking about most of the subjects we cover in my new Editorial Photography course at Langara, fashion isn't one that I would say falls within my area of expertise.

David assembled an awesome team to put on a great shoot at the fabulous shooting space that is Sugar Studios.  Thanks to Gina and her crew for helping us out.

David Ellingsen Showing some test shots before the shoot.

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