[Hacker]

When I was in Digital Depot (Stevenage, Herts) at the weekend I noticed they were starting some photography related seminars beginning this week. At a cost of just £20 I booked myself in for the "Getting the best from your flash" as flash photography and the Nikon manuals have always been regarded by me as a bit of a black art.

The course was run by John Clements who is Technical Editor for Digital PhotoPro magazine and has a wealth of experience behind him, including being Nikon Uk's 'Advisor of Photography'.

John had an easy going and approachable style to his presentation and the session just flew by, it was meant to cover basics and I picked up many tips and snippets of advice, particularly round fill flash, or more importantly, balanced fill flash. He also covered briefly some areas such as close up/macro and imparted some real nuggets of information

I also found out that my D200 has a flash synch speed of up to 1/8000th which will be great for macro photography, apparently Nikon do not advertise this fact too much as they are worried that people will leave it on this setting which obviously has a very limited range. I also found out how to fire my SB800 using the Nikon CLS without firing the onboard flash.

Other seminars are planned for the near future and the full range can be found in the link below, there are plans to add more depending on the feedback they get from these initial ones. If they are anywhere near as good as the one last night I can highly recommend them, from a photographic point of view it was probably the best £20 I have spent.

Digital Depot Warehouse Club Seminars

[Dabhand16]

Thanks for that, Hacker. I've had a quick look at the link, but it does not say where they are held, or I missed it. Is it at the Stevenage site?

You did not mention the great Italian/pizza place almost next door.

[Hacker]

Yes it's at Stevenage at their new Warehouse Club just round the corner from the shop in the old town

[stepheno]

Thanks for the recommendation, Colin