Following on from the AOP workshop with Hasselblad, I attended a lighting and shooting day with 5 other lucky individuals at a period flat in Harringey last Friday. Christian Hough was running the workshop and Hasselblad supplied kit in the form of cameras and lighting. Christian had worked with Tessa Kuragi before and he set up 4 different lighting arrangements in the vast period flat we were priviliged to be using.

What a difference to shooting in a perfect studio. This place was amazing as was Tessa and all the crew. Pity is I cannot post any images owing to restrictions in the permissions set on the day. So I have 181 mostly cracking pictures that only I can look at. I’ll get some off to Tessa and hopefully they might appear on her site www.tessa-kuragi.com.

Christian runs an easy ship and more has sunk in by watching and listening than actually taking many of the shots. So much is in the preparation and so much in the model who knowss what to do.

On the IQ front, the Hassies produce incredible shadow detail and the 120 Macro lens is very unforgiving – such sharpness.

I’m now waiting for Christian to get his lighting book published – simplicity being the key to most of his approach.