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Location Lighting Workshop With Rick Friedman

I had the pleasure of attending a location lighting workshop instructed by photojournalist Rick Friedman this past Saturday. This class crammed a four day curriculum into 6 hours of nonstop lecture and group activity. Rick taught speed light fundamentals, how to mix ambient light with flash, on-camera flash techniques, and studio/on-location set-ups with octaboxes, softboxes, ring lights, snoots, grids, gobos, beauty dishes, and sweeps. Reflectors, sun screens, home depot solutions, and other various tools were also introduced.

Rick Friedman is high energy and extremely passionate about photography and it shows in his lectures. We barely had time for lunch and I’m okay with that because I wanted to maximize my time and get the most out of the 6 hours.

Rick Friedman’s Lighting Course Modeling Shot

Unique Photo and Rick come prepared; we even had a model to shoot during our break-out sessions. This photo was shot with a single Dynalite studio strobe inside a RiME LITE Octagon Softbox and a Home Depot foam core reflector @ camera right.

A single octabox lights a brown haired model with a white foam core reflector @ camera right to fill in shadow falloff.