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Day two is my hectic day. Full, but still lots of fun. I had two morning classes and with setup for my lighting class, it’s a very long morning. My “Copyright” class is first, followed 15 minutes later with my “One Light Lighting” class. And in two different rooms, far apart in the convention center. In fact one was as far as possible in one direction and the second as far as possible in the other.

So I have to set up my lights early, which turned out great, because I was able to avoid the downpour that came to Orlando today. Actually, it wasn’t just a downpour, it was a deluge. Both classes went great, even if I say so myself. The student evaluations will tell all.

The lighting class was tricky because of the logistics and also my strobe head didn’t flash when I needed it to flash. Luckily, even though it’s a one light demo, I have a backup, just in case things like this happened. No time to really check it out as the class is going on, so backups are very important. Turns out, shipping caused a break, not just a loose connection. But if was a great class. Instead of having models to demo on, models who make any lighting look good, I picked regular people from the audience. And just to make it even harder, I started with a friend, Robert Vanelli (V). What can I say about V. I told him as we started that Popeye called and asked for his forearms back. V is always a great sport.

When I finished I packed up my lights and off to Fedex to ship back to NY. Then a quick lunch and finally off to the trade show, which I missed the first day. I still have one more class on “Model Releases” at 6pm. The trade show is a fun place, like a giant toyland for photographers, extra classes and demos, model setups for attendees to shoot, and just a great place to run into people.

After the trade show and a little rest, I taught my class and went to one of the really big events at Photoshop World. The Art of Photography. A panel of 6 showed their personal and or current work. Very inspirational. Or very depressing, depending how you take it in. Depressing in that you want to go and burn your cameras because the work is jaw dropping fantastic.

When it ended, a small group of us, all old friends, went to a late dinner, swapped stories and industry gossip, and closed the place. A very long day. And I never made it to “Midnight Maddness” a Photoshop World tradition of fun and mayhem.  A little sleep and on to the last day and my last presentation “The War on Photographers”.