I wanted to shoot Monday night. I really wanted to shoot. I threw out a little twitter post to see who would be interested in shooting with me. Three or four people responded. Kate thought we should put it on the Seattle Flickr Meetups group. So she started a discussion. People were excited. People were totally down for this impromptu photoshooot / lighting workshop event. Soon it got on the calender. There were 20 people rsvp’ed. Wow. I was really excited. I checked the rsvp list like every 15 minutes. By Sunday night we had 40 people! Double wow! Monday was crazy. I was on my email, phone twitter all day getting things pulled together. Monday night- it was epic.

I can’t believe how many people came out to last nights event. It was so incredible to see such a turnout on such short notice. Thanks to each and everyone of you who came. I wish there had been more time to talk with everyone! I learned so much last night about lighting. I have always shot with natural light. Maybe because artificial lighting just seemed so scary to me. There are so many parts and pieces that go with it! But artificial light is freaking SWEET! You can really do some amazing stuff with off camera lighting and I am soooo thankful for all the lessons I got last night! I can’t wait to play with all your equipment again soon. I’m already Amazon shopping for lighting goodies

I didn’t really shoot that much last night- only about 300 images and half of them were me messing up my settings getting used to working with flash. I do have a few to share, hope you love them…