What a workshop!

I know, I know, I have to say that, right? Um...no! This was another amazing group of people who have bonded as Bebblings and have been Bebbified! (Let's see how many Bebb words I can use!)

We changed things up this time, because as effective as our previous program has been, we were getting bored. And we never want to get bored with what we're teaching. So, while we covered all the mainstays of a Bebbinar, the most important of which is reclaiming your life, we added some more shooting, did website critiques, and so much more!

We could write forever about what the Bebblings (or Bebbinis for Mel McLellan) mean to us, but we just want to show off some images. At the end of the day, after all, we are still photographers and this is our reward for all our hard work!

On the photography day (yes almost an entire day was spent on photography!) we wanted to show our students where to find, and how to see, incredible light. That meant teaching them to see differently and to look for the light before finding the location. (One of our favorite sayings is that the light often is the location).

So, here is Steve showing some of our students how incredible soft frontal light, how to make the background go black, and the importance of walking around your subject, rather than shooting hundreds of frames in the same light.

One of the things I love about photography is finding little pockets of light and using them to my advantage. As we walking from our first location, I just glanced over my shoulder and saw some really cool light under a set of stairs. It was off the beaten track and is something that you could walk pst every day without seeing it.

We grabbed the models, and the class, and headed into this little area to work with this unique light. There were two lessons we wanted to teach - using the light on the face and then using the same light in the background. Here are just two of the images from that area:

It was about high noon, on a bright sunny day, when we were shooting. And that was fantastic, because many people struggle with that kind of unforgiving light. So, on the way to a very bright location, we stopped for a moment to show our students how incredible another kind of light can be. In any urban setting (well any setting at all, but especially an urban one) light bounces in from strange places. In an urban environment, there is a lot of sidewalk bounce, and that can be tricky to work with. We wanted to show our students how one little area, and great bounce, could make for incredible imagery.

I'll have more images up soon - hopefully some will also be from our Bebblings! They really did a great job under very tough conditions. I also have some awesome images done with Radio Poppers and off camera flash - sweet stuff!

So, hang tight, we'll be adding more images very soon!