Recently, I’ve been taking a lighting class at Sawtooth with, instructor, Bill Lusk. So far (we have only finished the first part of a three part class), just about everything that we’ve learned has been stuff I learned in college but I very much had the mindset of, “I don’t really need to learn studio lighting because I’m going to be outside in the middle of everything or on tour with some band where I won’t be able to control the lighting anyway.” Yeah well… Fast forward nearly a decade and a half later, amidst a digital photography revolution and now you can barely cross the street without bumping into at least one “photographer” and, sight unseen, my photographic skills no longer sound like anything especially special.
How can I differentiate myself from the piles of camera toting weekend warriors loitering the streets of the planet? I’ll study up on all the lighting techniques that I was so resistant to in school! Seems a little redundant, you say? I prefer to think of it as I’m getting to pay two times to learn the same information! Eh? Eh? Oh well, I’m enjoying the class and I’m getting a great refresher on all the stuff that I’ve forgotten/avoided learning in the first place!
I managed to talk Atticus into being my involuntary, if only semi-willing, model. I think he did a great job!
