Learning photography is a never ending process. I’ve been shooting personally since high school, and professionally for the last 10 years. I’ve learned so much, but every day I still learn something new. Its a never ending process than will challenge you on every shoot.

I have found there are certain ‘walls’ that photographer bump into that stops them dead in their tracks until someone else comes along and shows them the next step. For beginners, it’s the relationship between shutter speed, aperture, and ISO settings that holds the key to mastering creative exposures. But once understood, it unlocks a whole new area of creativity to explore.

With lighting, one of those brick walls is using strobe lighting, and getting decent ‘repeatable’ results. Beyond that wall, is yet another hurdle with regard to mixing ambient lighting and strobe for getting those dramatic images in mixed lighting conditions. Until it is understood,  those sorts of images will elude them.

The roadblocks aren’t hard to get past, but many photographers just need someone who has been there before, to give them a little help in order to move to the next plateau.

My workshops were designed around those roadblocks, and helping people circumvent them.  Through presentation, walking through sample images discussing the techniques, and hands on demonstrations and shooting exercises, we break down those walls and open up new avenues of creativity.

And the workshops are not just about lighting, but the entire creative process. Creative use of depth of field, working with models, controlling backgrounds in a creative manner, using harsh sunlight to your advantage, and so on.

Check out the individual pages for more details on the individual workshops, locations and schedules, and pricing.

Also, look for the Business Workshop that I will be offering in the near future.  It will cover all those questions you have about how to run a commercial photography business. Contracts, rights, pricing, negotiation, marketing, insurance options, logistics, client workflow,  and so on.

Have a Workshop Hosted Near You

If you don’t see a workshop on my schedule in your area, it is still possible to have one taught there. Contact me and I can fill you in on the details.