Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Children's Ministry Leadership Course


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The 3-month Children's Ministry Leadership Course recently started up at Kilchzimmer.
The Autumn course has 18 students taking the classes in German and 12 students taking the classes in English.
It can be a challenge waiting for a good photo day.  This afternoon, I quickly snapped photos of each class ... in between the big gusts of wind, blowing leaves and hair.  You'll notice I asked someone to hold down the flash and umbrella stand from flying away.  The rain came as soon as we finished.  That's Swiss weather!


Photographer tech notes: I used the flash (manual setting) to help warm up the shadows on the faces and fill in around the eyes. The flash helped to counter the cool overcast day and surrounding green reflecting onto their faces.  Because I used a single umbrella for a group shot, I had the umbrella center pointing toward the far end of the group, feathering the light across those nearest the umbrella and giving an even coverage of light across the entire group.