I attended Carstens Creative Flash Techniques workshop in March 2018 to learn the techniques he has mastered. This is a really excellent workshop filled with useful content and no time wasting filler. Carsten delivers his workshop content in a very friendly, engaging, well paced and easy to follow manner. He is easy to listen to for hours on end and very encouraging of group interaction and questions, making everyone feel instantly comfortable in the group. He shared his knowledge openly and had well thought out answers to questions, answers that made a lot of sense to me. His knowledge really showed during the critique session where his composition, framing and posing critique, advice on lens selection and shooting angles etc was really helpful and useful.
My biggest takeaways from the workshop were to be able to put structure on/ take the randomness out of creative off-camera flash use. Better understanding of gel colour selection and what colours to combine for the most impact. Excellent feedback on my photos during the critique. Building a very specific understanding of when each of Carsten's 10 flash techniques are best used, and how to build up the shot from scratch each time. As an unexpected bonus I found that the workshop really helped to clarify/ change my view about how these shots can fit in with documentary wedding photography and gave me a very clear focus of where my priorities should be for my wedding photography.
Highly recommended if you want to get a LOT of flash photography knowledge in a short time in a way that you can start to use immediately, as well as a load of really good general photography insight. www.steveoleary.com. read more