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Moscow Workshop- Update

April 27th, 2008 | Category: Tech Stuff


(Photo credit: Alex Khromushin)

Wow- what a great experience! I’m in Moscow, just finished teaching a stock photography workshop for Stockxpert. Over 140 photographers participated in an all day event with many flying in from the outlying cities in Russia.


(Two images of Anna from the workshop session.)

Only a very few of the workshop participants spoke English so fortunately there was an interpreter that could translate my words into Russian. The model only spoke Russian as well. (Of course, I have the world’s dumbest laugh that will make anyone smile…) In the afternoon, I photographed the model using just natural light and reflectors surrounded by the entire group. After each series of images, my camera would get passed around the room for everyone to see the what had been just shot. Photography is truly a global language.

Many thanks to all who came to the workshop, and to all my new friends in this beautiful city!

8 Comments so far

  1. Andrey Lipkovskiy April 28th, 2008 12:18 am

    Ron, great experience for me. Thanks for so interesting workshop. See you!

  2. Traveler April 28th, 2008 2:19 am

    You’ve got me dreaming of shooting in far away places! But then the alarm rings. Sounds like you’re enjoying your trip, take some shots for the rest of us back in the grind.

  3. Mikhail Lukyanov April 28th, 2008 3:08 am

    Thanks Ron, Stockxpert and all participants of conference!
    It was cheerful and interesting!

  4. Alexey Arkhipov April 28th, 2008 4:14 am

    Thanks Ron!!!
    Some photos from the conference:
    http://alexey-arkhipov.livejournal.com/122454.html

  5. Max Bolotnikov April 28th, 2008 11:09 am

    Thanks Ron!
    Show us please your photos from Russia!

  6. Elnur April 30th, 2008 11:21 am

    Many thanks for great presentation. Use of reflectors was a true revelation for me. Makes me wonder why I spent a fortune to buy 3 500ws strobes in Moscow :)

  7. fotosav April 30th, 2008 2:31 pm

    Hi Ron!
    Great presentation and teaching!
    Thank you!

  8. Alex Khromushin (AlexKhrom) May 2nd, 2008 12:04 pm

    Hello Ron!
    One more, thanks for all.
    Good luck!

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