{"id":10760,"date":"2023-03-28T01:14:48","date_gmt":"2023-03-27T23:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mipstudiowedding.com\/?p=10760"},"modified":"2023-03-28T12:31:20","modified_gmt":"2023-03-28T10:31:20","slug":"anfm-convention-2023-my-masterclass-in-matera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mipstudiowedding.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/28\/anfm-convention-2023-my-masterclass-in-matera\/","title":{"rendered":"ANFM CONVENTION 2023 – MY MASTERCLASS IN MATERA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As you might know I am an old time member<\/strong> of ANFM<\/strong> (National association of wedding photographers), the most important association for wedding photographer, and every year they put on a great event<\/strong> with guests, masterclasses, sponsors, parties and mostly chances to build up your own network with colleagues you appreciate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I was really proud <\/strong>when I was asked to think about a Masterclass<\/strong> I could have in 2023 and I thought that \u201cworking with flash and ambient light\u201d<\/strong> would have been a cool topic since most of my colleagues are not used to working with flashes in daylight, something that I usually do for campaigns and outdoor portraits (I do not use them for weddings, that would be against my attitude with the couples).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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At first we started with a masterclass for 15 attendees, then we had so many people wanting to partecipate that we had to make 3 masterclasses with so much more people since we did not want people not to be able to join us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The venue was beautiful and the organization was pretty perfect, I had never been to Matera <\/strong>so I really appreciated the choice of the location (I admit I was not so convinced since it has no great connections to airports or trains but I was happy I was wrong).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I arrived on tuesday afternoon with a flight from Pisa and I had the chance to scout the location and the city, I decided I would have moved outside the room to let people try to shoot in different conditions, there was a magnificent view on the valley and the old city that I wanted to have in my pictures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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DAY 1<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I started with an introduction about flash photography in daylight<\/strong> (why, how, when), I have shown some pics and informed the attendees about what they would be doing outside, we packed some gear and we went out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

IT WAS FREEZING COLD AND THE WIND WAS CRAZY<\/em> !<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We went to a court to have some shelter from the wind and, after a couple of pictures to show what we could do, I let the people try themselves<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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