The Power of Flash, Tokyo Workshop

My Power of Flash workshop that I put on in Tokyo recently has to be one of the most fun things I have done in a while.  We spent time discussing very technical aspects of lighting in general, and got into the specifics of using flash.  After the discussion we put our newfound knowledge to use with a variety of gear from small speedlights to large studio strobes.  The lovely and talented Reila Heaven was our model.  We were able to photograph both in the studio and outdoors, using different techniques.  I always have fun experimenting with what not to do.  One of the images below has a dark band from one such experiment with improper flash sync speeds.  I think it ended up looking really cool. I have to thank one of my students, Carl Bryan, for letting me use his images from the workshop in this blog post.