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Golden Light Workshop
In April, Asia Eidson worked with a group of student photographers interested in mastering golden light.
Friday afternoon, she walked them through working with subjects for couples’ portraits and then that evening took them on a shoot with models to experience the challenge of getting informal pictures as the light disappears at the end of the day.
Saturday after she took a second group through a typical early-morning shoot, Asia introduced students to strategies for editing portraits in Adobe Lightroom. As Adobe Creative Cloud continues to be available to the campus for free, we see a growing number of students tapping the power of tools like Lightroom.
If you’d like to hear about future student workshops, email us at learningstudio@acu.edu to get on our mailing list.
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Image Credits: Alex Gabriele, Brittney Johnson
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