At last years Gulf Photo Plus I spent the day photographing attractive models with Bobbi Lane and a bunch of pro photographers using available light. A hard act to follow. This year I spent two days in a classroom with David Hobby and didn't get to press the shutter once. Nor did we have any models - he just used the course attendees. However, David is the main man in this field (his blog has over 300,000 regular readers) and didn't disappoint. He packed loads into those 2 days and taught us not only nuts and bolts but, more importantly, how to think about lighting and how to approach any assignment (including some great ideas especially for me for photographing 3 hyperactive kids). There was a lot to take in, but I've come away with loads of ideas to try out in my own photography and I'm already seeing improvements in the pictures I'm taking.
Once again, GPP had a world class set of instructors. David Nightingale took some amazing pictures of Dubai, as published in his blog. My personal favourite was taken on my local beach, but the pictures taken by Zack Arias were also superb - especially the group photo of 29 people lit with just the one flash.
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