I participated in an Arkansas Strobist Meetup, (an informal group of photographers who correspond through the Flickr photo sharing website) at Fort Chaffee Sunday. What is a Strobist you ask? A Strobist is a photographer that uses a “strobe” (flash) for off camera lighting. The term Strobist came from a website run by photography David Hobby which he calls “Strobist”, which has branched into local groups all over the world. David says “This website is about one thing: Learning how to use off-camera flash with your dSLR to take your photos to the next level.”
We were shooting in abandoned and dilapidated buildings used during the Cuban Refugee Crisis of 1980 when approximately 25,000 Cubans were house at Fort Chaffee. Some of these were found to be criminals and along with the worst troublemakers had been confined to heavily guarded areas which are surrounded by 11-ft. chain-link fences topped by 2-ft. coils of razor-sharp barbed wire, to prevent them from molesting other refugees or escaping. This is where we were shooting.
The weather was not the best, it was cold, temp was in the 30’s with a 10-15 mph wind and very overcast skies. Even thou we were shooting mostly indoors, the windows were broken out and the buildings had no heat. Our models did a great lob of tolerating the conditions to work with the photographers between trips to the vehicles to warm up.
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Greg Disch is a freelance photographer located in Arkansas. Greg specializes in nature, scenic, wildlife, and other outdoor subjects in Arkansas and other areas of the country. Most of the images on this site are available for sale as prints, personal use, or rights managed stock photos.
Greg offers both classroom instruction and in the field hands on photographic workshops. Classroom sessions are normally held in Fort Smith Arkansas, but arrangements can be made to bring a class to your group.
All classes and workshops have small class sizes designed to provide an optimum student to instructor ratio, where you can get the personal attention, you need. Most classes and workshops are limited to a maximum of six participants and will be held with a minimum of only two.
If you are looking for a wonderful opportunity to get personal individual instruction, I do private workshops and classes at a location of your choice, whether doing a location photo shoot, coming to your home or business, traveling across the country on a road trip, or at my classroom. This is a fantastic way to learn digital workflow and be sure that your computer equipment is properly configured for optimum performance.
