Well, its time for me to polish my off-shoe flash technique I learnt in the past week. As you all may know me, I always shoot under natural lighting. This time around, i’ll be using my faithful SB900 for a little flashy stuff. It was 6:30pm, and I’ve got a model, without much hesitation, my natural instinct was of course to shoot her potraiture having the sun setting as background under the beautiful sky.

Then we head for an empty abandoned ground behind my house in my hometown Kuantan.

As it was 6:30pm, I didn’t have much time to shoot, all I wanted was a simple shot, with a nice sun setting as background, with a properly exposed model, with a little flaring from the setting sun for the mood in the shot, in an abandoned urban area.

Here is what I got.

A little extra, I got these shots while setting up the lighting, love the tone of the sky

Besides having always shooting my work in natural lighting, i am always thinking how to bring my photography work to a different level by using flashes, so i decided to attend the class. Besides, the price for the class was reasonable. The trainer was Andrew Boey, the class was no ordinary class, andrew conducted the class in a very interesting way with lots of fun and laughters in the meantime sharing his experience, sharing some flash photography techniques, and some basic flash photography, his 2 hours of theory gave me alot of insight about flash photography with addition of 2 hours of practical model shoot.

I’m definitely going back for more. Do drop by nikonian academy‘s website if you’re interested to know more about what classes they offer.

Without further ado, some sharings for the session i attended.

They looked really good, i’m beginning to get addicted with flash strobing. Maybe we’ll be shooting pre-weds in the night coming future.

More to come in the coming weeks. Stay tuned.