Motivation Monday: TriCoast Workshops and Book
Motivation can come in a variety of ways. Sometimes, it’s looking at a site, sometimes it’s seeing something outside and knowing you just have to shoot an image a certain way, others your motivation can come from other places.
Recently I had the privilege of attending a workshop run by TriCoast. Attending this workshop was an amazing experience. I was there to learn TTL and Flash, but in the end I learned so much more. I learned to trust myself when I am taking an image, I learned that your histogram can lie (sometimes), I learned posing techniques (although the workshop did not focus on that), along with post processing tips and tricks. Most of all I learned that I can do things I didn’t think were possible and do them well.
The amount of learning that happens amazing. It starts from the first minute you arrive and does not end until you walk out the door. Mike, Cody and Suzy, the TriCoast team, answer your questions and patiently wait for you to “get” it when teaching you OCF. The workshop is completely hands on and allows you to try two different methods of OCF, using Master units and Slaves along with Radio Poppers (more on those another day because honneslty they truly changed how I think about using OCF). To attend you only need your DSLR and a flash unit to do this workshop, they have everything else. (and I am sure if you didn’t have a flash you they would work with you on it too). They provide additional flashes to use as slave units, and Radio Poppers, so you can truly learn and decide what you need or want. Mike and the gang teach you many cost effective ways to maximize your flashes to use them to their fullest!
While I think attending one of thier workshops is the best motivator, many of us can not travel to one of the locations, but they have solved that issue in creating a book, The TTL Flash Book. TriCoast has said that the book is literally their class in a book. I am so excited!!!
It has been a month since the workshop and I have not been able to practice things as much as I would have liked to, and so many of the things I learned are fading, but now with the book I won’t have to be as worried about forgetting the techniques and knowledge gained at their workshop, it will be like having the gang right here at my home to direct me through things. Even better the book is hard copy and so AFFORDABLE pre sale is just 49.95, it will go up to 59.95 after the pre-sale. It is going to ship within a week or two, just in time for a session I have planned!
So for today my motivation is waiting for my book to arrive — which well since it is a MONDAY is a pretty good way to start my week!
Till next time.
Shannon
This entry was posted on Monday, August 10th, 2009 at 10:22 am and is filed under General Info, Information. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
