A few weeks ago, I attended an awesome lighting workshop taught by James Frederico of the The Feds Studio. He demystified flash photography for us and laid out what kinds of lighting equipment we need to take our photography to the next level. The workshop lasted all day but the hours just flew by! I highly recommend it, and it’s a really good workshop if you’ve never taken your flash off your camera before. Now I really want to buy some lighting equipment and play with it but that will have to wait.

James explaining what equipment we need to “make it work.”

We had a model who was really, really nice in letting us blind her with our flashes repeatedly! My eyes hurt after the workshop, so I can just imagine how bad hers felt!

Here’s a shot of what it looks like when you gel your flash. The background is ultra blue but the model looks completely normal.

Side lighting.

A behind the scenes look of the workshop. We were only using one flash to light up the scene. Here’s Jaclyn Lombardo in action.