Are you getting tired of me talking about workshops? Am I blabbing on too much? I'm sorry, but you're going to have a to bear with me a little longer because I'm just too excited to contain myself.
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| These photos have NOTHING to do with this post. But I figured you'd get bored with just words. |
A few weeks ago my fellow photographer friend, Marty, sent me a link to
CreativeLive, which is basically an online classroom. He mentioned
Jamine Star, a very well- renowned wedding photographer, would be doing a free workshop. Now, I remembered that my amazing photographer friend (and my very first best friend in the whole wide world), Leah, from
The Salted Image, had gone to a Jasmine Star workshop in California, not long ago, so I thought, "What the heck: I'll check it out".
Let-s get this out in the open right now - I'm not very interested in ever doing wedding photography because, well... because to tell you the truth, brides scare the crap out of me! It's just too much stress. I've taught 20 five- year- old kids mostly on my own before. I've run a café before fully understanding how to make Spanish coffee. I've lived in a country before I could understand ANY answer to ANY question. Those are all particularly stressful situations, but a bride on her wedding day? Let's just say I prefer to take my head home with me at the end of the day, thank you very much. Anyway, reservations about wedding photography aside, I decided to watch. It was going to be a five day event all revolving around a real live wedding that took place in, of all places, Seattle, Wa!
So I tuned in. I had Bella stay with The Ya Yos (her grandparents), and I watched from 9 pm to 2am! What a good decision! It was incredible. She shared all her secrets and tips to running a successful business. On the second day she did the "first look" and we watched her pose the bride and groom and saw how she talked to them to calm them down and make them look beautiful instead of like stiff robotic people. To me, this seems to be one of the hardest things about photography - getting people to look natural and relaxed. I don't tend to like posing, and prefer capturing real moments, but how do you do this during a photoshoot? I still don't know, but now I have some more ideas.
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| See what awesome posing techniques I learned? Does she look natural or what?! ; ) |
What did Jasmine do? She told them how fantastic they looked over and over and also kind of made a fool of herself. (I'm totally set, because I do this most of the time anyway, so it's right up my alley). Yesterday, was the wedding. It didn't start until after 2am my time, so I only caught the very beginning of it. But, man, how cool to see a live wedding and watch EXACTLY how the photographer works her magic. And magic, it was. I can't wait to see the photos.
Ok, you made it! I'm done talking about workshops... until September 13th when I start
The Creative Light Workshop.
