Starting out with my new camera I of course(not) read the manual first. Ok thats a lie I did finally wade through the manual. Whew. Check out this link on camera manuals in the links section. I have areas marked that I can review when I need to. I started researching photography online and discovered some great sites and Youtube videos. I began reading David Hobby's Strobist Blog and following Joe Mcnally's adventures. I learned that I have a lot to learn! I am really interesting in lighting and light. Well photography is a study of light. In September I signed up for a two day seminar with Joe McNally in Houston,Texas. If you don't know who Joe McNally is please do yourself a favor and look him up or follow the link in the links area. Better yet go see him. Check out this video of Joe McNally
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEAKQFddTLI
An amazing photographer and very generous with information. You won't be sorry. I figured this would be a good time to visit some relatives ,my hometown and see Joe McNally. I live in Memphis, Tennessee and it was kind of a long drive. I had an awesome time visiting with my aunt and cousins. The seminar was at a meeting space in the Houston zoo. I got to meet a lot of great photographers. Joe is a very funny and entertaining guy as well as a master of lighting. besides going over different lighting examples and stories about some of his famous and not so famous shoots, he did several shoots right there in the seminar. He would walk through his thinking process and trial and error lighting setups. I gotta say at the end of two days I was in lighting overload. There was so much information. Now I gotta get his two books! Thanks Joe!
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