Recommendations for lighting training in Sydney?

[simonrenton]

Hi everyone,

I'm brand new to this forum, and have had a few years as an ametuer tog around Oz and in my travels around the world. I recently decided I want to take the photography side of my life a lot more seriously and one aspect that I have never really explored has been professional lighting gear.

I am looking for some recommendations on good lighting courses around Sydney if anyone is aware of them or if there are good online training courses that are just as good?

I hope this question hasn't already been answered somewhere else! I did a search and couldn't see anytrhing directly related to this question.

Looking forward to hearing from other members.

Simon

[Reschsmooth]

Simon, welcome. You should be able to use this forum as a very helpful and valuable learning resource.

Infrequently, members of this forum hold portraiture sessions where we learn the use of lighting gear, techniques, etc. I have been to one and found it very valuable.

Also, you may want to check out a book: "Light - Science & Magic" - go a third of the way down the page. I find it a very good book.

Hope that helps

[PiroStitch]

Check out strobist.blogspot.com for lighting tutorials as well as fundamentals. Really popular site nowadays. Deals mainly with speedlights though rather than studio strobes but theory still applies, in a way.

[Oz_Beachside]

if you are interested, check the calendar, we have a workshop on January 19 in Melbourne

[simonrenton]

Thanks Beachside. I;ve posted a question on your thread about the day.

[Benny2707]

The Australian Centre of Photography in Sydney (Oxford St, Paddington to be precise) hold lighting courses. A freind of mine who is pretty hand behind the back of his 5D took one and raved about it.