OSP West Metering Workshop

This post is for all the photographers who are planning on attending my Manual Metering/Flash workshop at OSP West, sorry everyone else!
During my first class in photography school my instructor handed out a chart that showed common lighting situations and how to make a proper exposure in that situation. We were quizzed on it the following week. After the quiz everyone tossed out that chart and relied on their light meter. A couple classes later another professor taught us how to manually calculate flash exposure and we were quizzed another week later. Everyone forgot how to do it soon afterward as they used their flash meter to do it for them. I quickly learned that the people who relied on their equipment to make all the decisions were slower to set up than the people who could walk into the room, set the camera close to an accurate exposure, put the lights at the right distance and then check everything with a meter. This sometimes made the difference between having a cooperative model and having a bored one. Not only were they faster it also seemed that they could see the light and shadows with their naked eye whereas the others were completely reliant on a light meter.
The purpose of this workshop is not to allow you to toss out your light-meter or always shoot your flash on manual, the goal is to make you faster and enable you to create more interesting lighting effects. The better you understand the principals of how light works the more you will begin to see light in a new way and will become much faster and accurate when shooting. The principals I will cover will also make you more comfortable when shooting with multiple strobes off camera. These principals are the first step in teaching your eyes to see in "stops." Plus, it will be great to get a chance to meet all of you!
The most important piece of information is here. Even if you don't exactly understand what it means I highly encourage you to memorize this chart. Please bring a copy of this chart with you to the workshop.
Several people have asked me what they need to know in advance of the workshop so here you go...Prerequisites: You should know the whole f-stops from f/2 through f/22 and you should know full stops of shutter speeds. For example, if I ask to open up 4 stops from f/16 you should know I mean f/4. You should also understand the implications of adjusting shutter speed vs. changing aperture.
I look forward to meeting you all and trust me, the memorization is really worth it! Email or call if you have any questions.