{"id":1288,"date":"2014-05-17T10:12:18","date_gmt":"2014-05-17T09:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seanmcfoto.com\/blog\/?p=1288"},"modified":"2014-05-17T10:12:18","modified_gmt":"2014-05-17T09:12:18","slug":"hamps-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seanmcfoto.com\/smcc\/hamps-hall\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamps Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Hanpshall\"<\/p>\n

I’m just back from Hamps Hall in the Peak District of the UK. I was there teaching lighting and Lightroom\/Photoshop for a photo retreat run by Paul RG Haley<\/a>. I’ve actually lost track of how many of these I’ve done now. Galway had an airport when it started, so getting there was easy! <\/p>\n

I’ve blogged about what has become known as Buxton training before here<\/a>, here<\/a> and here<\/a>. <\/p>\n

I love doing these. The trainers here are excellent with a huge gamut of teaching from a broad range of topics from wedding lighting and posing, to studio, software, boudoir and art nude. As well as the teaching, there are time slots for each model for 1:1 work, meaning you can apply the training and use the photos from those sessions for portfolio. <\/p>\n

I absolutely recommend going on these annuals trips to anyone. The pricing on them is fantastic-the accommodation alone would be most of the price, but you get food and training on top!<\/p>\n

This time around I brought the Fuji XPro1 with 18-55mm and 35mm lenses, along with rebadged Godox v850 flashes. Love the control you get from these Li-ion flashes with the FT-16s. A bit like speed light versions of the Quadra. While there isn’t a modelling bulb, there is a red criss-cross pattern light that lets you see where the flash is pointed before adding a modifier. I also used my MagMod gels and grids and the Lastolite Trifold brolly. These make for a great travel photo lighting kit. Now if only I could figure out how to get light stands in carry on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[111],"tags":[300],"class_list":["post-1288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-training","tag-training"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seanmcfoto.com\/smcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seanmcfoto.com\/smcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seanmcfoto.com\/smcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seanmcfoto.com\/smcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seanmcfoto.com\/smcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.seanmcfoto.com\/smcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seanmcfoto.com\/smcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seanmcfoto.com\/smcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seanmcfoto.com\/smcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}