{"id":68,"date":"2008-02-20T11:19:13","date_gmt":"2008-02-20T16:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rddeckerphotography.com\/blog\/2008\/%monthnum\/its-about-getting-better\/"},"modified":"2008-02-20T11:19:13","modified_gmt":"2008-02-20T16:19:13","slug":"its-about-getting-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rddeckerphotography.com\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/02\/20\/its-about-getting-better\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s About Getting Better"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is always a slow time of year for portrait and wedding photographers.\u00a0 This is a time for playing catch-up and for planning ahead.\u00a0 One of the things I always do is decide what areas of the business\/craft I need to work on and plan which seminars and workshops to attend.\u00a0 Some of the things I want to work on this year include: Lighting<\/strong> – I love creative lighting, both artificial and natural.\u00a0 I can never learn enough about lighting.<\/em>\u00a0 Posing <\/strong>– If you’ve been one of my clients you know I’m not a real hands-on… look here… chin-up kind of photographer.\u00a0 I like to gently lead\/coax folks in to natural situtaions rather than direct.\u00a0 But knowing more about posing certainly cannot hurt.<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0 Post Processing<\/strong> – My goal is always to create and image that can stand alone, straight out of the camera.\u00a0 But I also realize that a good solid photo can sometimes be something much more with the correct post processcing techniques.\u00a0 Plus all photographers get requests to change reality a bit via Photoshop.\u00a0 So growing my knowledge and skills in post processing is a high priority for this year.<\/em>\u00a0 As a rule, I prefer the hands-on nature of workshops over seminars, but both can be useful in the quest to improve.\u00a0 So far for 2008 I’ve decided to attend the following:<\/p>\n

\u00a0Tricoast Photography 3-Day Workshop<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tricoast Photography, headed by Mike Fulton, is quickly gaining recognition as one of the top wedding photography studios in the country. Their artistic use of light and digital post processing techniques is winning them awards and peer recognition throughout the industry. They are currently offering a limited number of 3-day, hands on workshops, each limited to 20 participants. Day one will include some classroom work on their approach to location lighting for wedding and bridal shoots, followed by several hours of practical application via actual shooting. The following two days will focus on post processing, workflow, marketing and all the other little things that have helped them build a successful photography business. I’ll be attending the workshop at Columbia, SC, April 21-23. More details can be found at their website, http:\/\/www.tricoastworkshops.com\/<\/a>.\u00a0 You can enjoy some of Tricoast’s amazing photos by visiting their main website, http:\/\/www.tricoastphoto.com\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Captivated by the Light with Ed Pierce.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This seminar will be held May 6 th in Raleigh, NC. The live portion (Ed Pierce) will cover lighting as it pertains to digital photography. All attendees receive a set of DVDs with additional speakers making presentations on workflow, business and other interesting topics. Details can be found at the seminar website, http:\/\/www.edpierceseminars.com\/learn.php<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Very AltF Workshop<\/strong><\/p>\n

John Michael Cooper is frequently referred to as “the Grandfather of Trash the Dress.”\u00a0 JMC has been called “one of the world’s ten best wedding photographers”, and is known for his edgey, less than traditional approach to wedding photography.\u00a0 I’ll be attending the Atlanta, GA workshop in July.\u00a0 The workshop will focus on their untraditional posing methods along with their use of natural and “very unnatural” lighting methods.\u00a0 There will also be some time spent on post processing\/Photoshop techniques. You can learn more about the\u00a0Very AltF workshop at the workshop’s website, http:\/\/veryaltf.com\/<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 To view their images and learn more about the AltF studio check out http:\/\/www.altf.com\/<\/a>\u00a0(just be sure to tell your mother to close her eyes!).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is always a slow time of year for portrait and wedding photographers.\u00a0 This is a time for playing catch-up and for planning ahead.\u00a0 One of the things I always do is decide what areas of the business\/craft I need to work on and plan which seminars and workshops to attend.\u00a0 Some of the things […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,13,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rddeckerphotography.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rddeckerphotography.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rddeckerphotography.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rddeckerphotography.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rddeckerphotography.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rddeckerphotography.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rddeckerphotography.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rddeckerphotography.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rddeckerphotography.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}