Basic Studio Lighting Course!

2 days ago, I went to this Basic Studio Lighting Course with the rest of NJPS exco and my teacher in-charge by Studiospace. Lessons were held in a studio in a rather sleazy area called Geylang. Surprisingly, despite the location, the studio looks well-furnished and equipped. We were taught by an instructor known as Sykes Tang on a popular photography forum Clubsnap (he claims that that's his real name too...). Lesson objectives includes: How to set up a simple studio environment, how to use a light meter and how to produce low/mid/high key portraits. The lesson was pretty easy to understand and well elaborated (although the girls look lost at times...). The instructor demonstrated good knowledge of what he was teaching and has certainly inspired me to read up more on portraiture photography. Kudos to him :)

Here are some of my example shots of low, mid and high key portraits. (respectively from top > bottom) And as you can see...the models don't look very professional. But the lighting does. :)

First Post!

Hey guys. Welcome to post one of my photoblog. Believe it or not, it was my friend Kah Han, who claims that I inspired him to create his photoblog, that inspired me to create my photoblog. Woo...mind-boggling...

I thought the idea of creating a photoblog was kind of interesting. I can train myself to produce photos every other day...something like the "a-photo-a-day" kind of stuff and keep track of my photography's progress. I might post my some of my lesson notes that I will be teaching next year's photog newcomers and my workplan for some of my photos here. So keep a look out :D

Btw, I currently reading this book "Digital Photography: Beyond the Camera" by Ian Farrell. So far I'm about one third into the book and I find that it's a really good beginners guide to Photoshop (PS) CS 2. And it acts as a good PS revision for the seasoned PS users. One part I found particularly interesting was it explains to you specifically what does the various tools and sliders you can find in PS stands for...unlike some PS books that only teaches you how to do hardcore PS manipulation. Do check it out!