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Upcoming Events!
Lighting for Real Life: Light Anything & Anywhere Fast! {ADORAMA EDGE CARDMEMBERS ONLY}
Date: Thursday, September 4th - 5 PM ET
Location: Online-Only (ONLY OPEN TO ADORAMA EDGE CARDMEMBERS)
Join us for an exclusive Adorama Edge Cardmember Webinar featuring Canon Explorer of Light and Adorama Collective member, Susan Stripling, as part of our Cardmember Appreciation Event.
This webinar is designed to help photographers build real-world lighting skills that hold up under pressure. From prep to reception, Susan will walk through the tools and techniques she rely on to light quickly and consistently—whether she's working with natural light, flash, or video. We’ll cover how to handle bad light, tough spaces, and tight timelines without sacrificing quality or style.
Attendees will leave with lighting strategies they can actually use, regardless of budget or location.
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Yiyi Zhang | Coffee with Creators
Date: Wednesday, September 10th · 11am - 12pm ET
Location: Adorama Event Space + Livestreamed Online
Livestream Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3sn5vN0KE8
Join host Seth Miranda (@LastXwitness) LIVE on Wednesdays at 11 AM ET from the Event Space at Adorama in NYC for an insider conversation with fellow creators, professionals, industry peers, and more.
Indie Gaming Operations Manager, Yiyi Zhang
Yiyi (she, her, pronounced ee-ee) is a community organizer, artist, and human rights lawyer based in Brooklyn, NY. As a queer immigrant woman of color in this industry, she feels a strong sense of duty to advocate for the development of diverse and supportive communities around games. She is currently the PR + Community Manager at Heart Machine, an LA-based game studio best known for shipping Hyper Light Drifter and Solar Ash, and building Hyper Light Breaker and Possessor(s). She is also on the Board of Directors of GUMBO Collective (NYC’s largest collective of indie game developers). She is the Vice President of Arcade Commons (a non-profit building indie arcade cabinets). She is also an advisor on the NYC Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment Digital Games Industry Council. She runs Women in Games NYC, a professional networking meetup group for women and non-binary individuals in the industry. In her free time, she is a graphic designer for Qweerty Gamers (an LGBTQIA+ games non-profit), and moonlights as an attorney helping asylum seekers and refugees gain safety and status in the United States.
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Daniel Norton OnSet - Light like a Cinematographer
Date: Thursday, September 11th · 5 - 6pm ET
Location: Adorama Event Space + Livestreamed Online
Livestream Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWWFjrSMFFo
Photographers and cinematographers both use light to tell stories. Beyond that, they share many compositional techniques and even some of the same gear. So why does cinema lighting seem ot carry with it an aura of mystery, and why do photographers always look to create cinematic shots?
Join Daniel Norton OnSet as he works with a variety of lenses, shares some insights, and dispels some myths about portrait photography.
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Lighting with Intention: Multi-Light Portraits with Jeff Carpenter
Date: Monday, September 15th · 5 PM ET
Location: Adorama Event Space + Livestreamed Online
Livestream Link: https://www.youtube.com/@AdoramaEvents/streams
Discover how to build portraits step by step with intentional lighting choices.
In this live demo, Jeff Carpenter will kick things off with just one light and then gradually build up to a three light setup. Along the way you’ll see how small adjustments, choosing the right modifier, and a focus on the fundamentals can completely transform your images.
Lighting doesn't need to be complicated to make a big impact.
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Adorama LIVE Community Image Review with Seth and Daniel!
Date: Tuesday, September 16th · 5 - 6pm ET
Location: Adorama Event Space (IN-PERSON ONLY)
We talk so much about how to shoot and techniques while its happening but what about the finish product? No matter the skill level we all need another credible eye for feedback beyond that of comments on social media. At this event have your work viewed by two working professional photographers with over 40 years of experience between them. Daniel Norton and Seth Miranda are accepting submissions FROM YOU to be viewed and discussed constructively. Keep in mind this will be reoccuring on the last week of every month when available.
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