Here are some of the images over-looking the last photography workshop I taught in Chicago
along with information for my upcoming workshops in at the bottom.
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Thanks!
We were so grateful for Emily McDonnell for being willing to model for us so we all could all just focus on posing, interacting and photographing our subjects.
Where could we have more fun doing a workshop other than Chicago??? I LOVE THIS PLACE!
Rob Bennett,
An awesome guy and friend who has come along to help
me teach and answer questions anybody might have!
We learning quickly about off camera flash and how to make it work and how it
makes your subject pop.
Image credit to Rob Bennett again. Thanks for capturing some of the action. :)
(I JUST LOVE TEACHING!!!!)
A couple more just fun shots I did quickly.
Emily was so great to work with!
Introducing my students to the fun limitless crazy fun you can have with a fisheye lens.
I like to have fun, no matter what I'm doing!
My awesome friends! We had such a blast! Some serious talent here in these ranks.
We have to be a little crazy too, right? We're photographers!
Introducing the beauty of boca to my students was a blast!
I love to grab the model and walk everyone over to a unlikely spot and say something like this,
"Okay, you're now on a wedding and you have only 5 mins to create beautiful imagery of the bride, what are you going to look for?" So I give them 5 mins (Or less. lol) and then show them what I would look for. Then I let everyone try their hand at it again. It's fun!
They all rocked!
I couldn't help but kind of like this. The bottom branches of the trees were still green, yet the top was red bursting forth with the anticipation of fall.
Going underground, We talked about light and how to do cool stuff. How to put lines in your pictures and what to look for for dramatic lighten.
As we walked about.
Chicago is so beautiful!
All of us gathering around at the local coffee shop. Lining up the computers... this is a fun time!
(Yes you already saw this image.)
Then toward the end of the day I teach everyone about all the Lightroom 3 and how they too can edit their photos. It's great! I LOVE watching people get excited about how much more awesome they can make their photos by making some simple edits in Lightroom 3. It's like I handed them the answer to their dream of what they originally intended to have in their photos.
Then after we were done with learning all about lightroom, image organization, image editing, Image presentation, we heading down for some optional evening shooting in BLUE HOUR. It's a time when the color is just awesome!
I didn't bring my tripod because I had to carry my camera bag (17lbs) and my laptop bag (Weight unknown) all day as it was. So I showed everyone cool stuff like, the Bag-O-Pod.
A LOT more information about the Workshop is below if you are interested:
TOPICS COVERED
Hands on shooting while we learn for a few hours, How to work with people and keep them comfortable, learn to think like a wedding photographer who has to perform magic with only 5 mins to do it in. File handling and processing in Lightroom 3, How to use online proofing while giving yourself a more professional finish, Anything and everything else you could want to talk about.
ONLY 6 SPOTS AVAILABLE
Only 6 students are allowed to attend my workshop at a time. This way we can learn at everyone's level and we become best of friends. I like safe learning environments where we can be vulnerable and learn from each other.
WHAT KIND OF PHOTOGRAPHERS COME?
I work with mostly amateur to intermediate photographers who are still trying to figure out how to establish their own style to how to get their business rolling. So at my workshops we talk about things that have worked for me and things that haven't and how they can best make a living doing it to simple things like how to use their cameras.
Everything comes from a wedding photographer's perspective. It's what I am!
HOW LONG?
They generally are one day workshops that start at 7 in the morning and go till dinner with really no breaks at all. But it's fun and we all are best friends by the time we are done.
POSSIBLE FUTURE LOCATIONS
I have a lot of people asking me to go to TX and the Twin Cities. So I'll probably hit those two places up since there seems to be enough people at each location to justify the means. Please give me feed back if you are interested or know anybody that could be interested.
OTHER WORKSHOPS I'VE TAUGH ON REQUEST
I've taught classes on how I built your own website.
COST
$200 for all day workshop in Chicago,
I hold nothing back at my workshops.
I might consider going up to 10 students on locations like Dallas TX and the TWIN CITIES. These two workshops would be 2 days long and would cost $350.
Sponsors,
I'm proud to be sponsored by Zenfolio. All students who attend my workshop will receive a code worth up to $50 off their membership with Zenfolio for attending my workshop. And their are other cool give aways from them as well.
DATES and LOCATIONS
Chicago IL—April 13 2011—1 day workshop like one pictured above.
Twin Cities MI—May 4-5 2011
Chicago IL—May 18, 2011
Hurry Spots will go fast for the Chicago Workshop.
Leave comments below if you have further questions of dates that would work for you!
Signing off for today. God bless your socks off,
Capture. Create. Discover.
