Canon Speedlite Workshop by Syl Arena
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Speedliter's Intensive Canon Flash workshop in Phoenix, AZ, on Jan 16, 2010. Sounds like an interesting workshop for Canonites.
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-joel
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He was at Joe McNally's Dobb Ferry workshop to help the troubled canon folks like me. I would have been completely lost with him and I recently spent five days with him and McNally at a Paso Robles workshop.
He's currently in the process of writing an canon speedlight book ---- think the hot shoe dairies, but for help the canon.
thanks Coung!
Cuong
Ive got WSIO... I just need the date for the vegas workshop.
Cuong
if you do the Phoenix workshop make sure to give us the full report, if not then I will just see you in Vegas...
and if anyone notices the Vegas date posted, notify us on this thread, pls:D
BTW, the PF Chang marathon is in Phoenix that weekend which is a huge deal (100K people or something ridiculous like that.) So if you're going to the workshop, get your hotel reservation early. I only know this because my wife is running in the race. We never go to Phoenix otherwise (it's three hours away), so what are the odds of that.
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If you want to learn the details as they are announced, you can sign up for the Speedliter's Intensive™ mailing list .
It's a two-step process: you enter your email and then you go to a second screen that lists the cities; indicate which of the cities listed on the sign-up form are most convenient for you.
Cuong
It sounds like this will be a one day only thing. Much like McNally's NAPP workshop was. I liked the pace of the NAPP workshop and feel that a 1 day would be good preparation for something like his multi-day thing.
Cuong
The workshop was great. It turns out Saturday's class was the first time he'd taught this workshop, so this was a bit of a trial balloon for him. Although if he hadn't mentioned that fact, I never would have guessed. Syl is a seasoned lecturer, relaxed and easy going. He was prepared and knew what he wanted to cover, so it just worked. In terms of content, it spanned a wide gamut. He covered camera and flash basics, nuts-and-bolts "this knob does that", strategies and techniques for portrait photography, use of many different light modifiers, reflectors, stands, cords, wireless gadgets, etc. I thought the class was a pretty good compromise of information useful for novices and experts alike. For myself, I'd say the nuts-and-bolts information on the Canon flash system was probably the least useful for me, because I'd already spent a lot of time over the past year studying it. It turned out I knew it pretty well. Still I did pick up a couple of pointers from seeing the way that Syl controls things that will help me be more efficient. The portrait lighting strategies and all the information we got on the various light modifiers and gadgets were the best part of the course for me. So I thought he did a good job at producing a course that will benefit a wide audience. Maybe some day he'll produce an advanced level course, and I'll go to that.
Syl's an immensely likable guy, low-key, but yet energetic. He loves fielding questions and if he didn't know the answer to something, he'd simply say he didn't know instead of trying to BS his way out of the question. I always appreciate that in a person.
So that's pretty much my take on the class. Definitely time well spent. Let me know if you have any specific questions on the day.
Cheers,
-joel
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Cuong
New York City – Sun March 14
Orlando – Sat March 27
Tampa – Sun., Mar 28
San Francisco – Sat May 1
Washington DC – Sat May 8 & Sun May 9
Los Angeles – Sat May 15
Atlanta – Sat May 22 & 2-day workshop May 23/24
Houston – Sat June 5
Chicago – Sat June 12
Boston – Sat June 19
London & other UK – in June or July (details TBA)
Paso Robles – 5-day workshop Oct 11-15
I think he has a long list of cities in the future....
more info here
Don't forget -- he's also writing a book right now.
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And make sure that you pack clothes that are a bit bigger -- you'll eat and eat and eat and eat. Tasty!
Kerry and I went to the Joe's workshop at Paso and this is Kerry's write-up of the paso workshop. When Joe held his Dobb Ferry workshops, he brought along Syl to help with the canon folks.
I can highly recommend any of the Paso Robles Workshops.
Any other DGrinner's in attendance?
Z
April - pulling a red eye and attending?
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