We spent the morning with our critique.reviewing the second day’s shoot. This was followed by life lessons and advice from being in the “real world” as a photographer. It was a great chance for the students to ask us...
We started this morning with a critique of yesterdays first location images. Everyone was thrilled. It was just the thing the students needed to get them going today. One of the benefits the morning critique is that the students...
Today was a big day as it was our first location shoot! We spent the morning learning about different qualities of light. When our students are out shooting on location they need to be aware that light can change...
We started this morning with our first critique of each student’s best three images from yesterday – their first day of shooting. The critique was led by Fred, Wendy, Sarah, and Esha. This was the first time the students...
There’s no looking back! Today was the first shooting day and the start of tremendous growth for the students. We started the day off with an introductory lesson from Wendy and Sarah. They explained what a camera is capable...
The First Day of School! Today we met the students and immediately jumped right into things with an introductory session in the morning and our tech session in the afternoon. We’ve started a new tradition of beginning these workshops...
Tomorrow is the big day! The 10 non-Academy students will arrive at 9 A.M. We spent the day getting the final details together before the start of the workshop tomorrow. Alex, Sarah, and Wendy drove off this morning to...
20 kids, 4 helpers, 5 instructors, 7 days… To say that’s all it takes for these workshops to happen is a mere understatement. Months of planning go into each session and from the moment our staff hits the ground,...
We had a student this week from the Roma community, a typically isolated community. There were a couple times this week we thought this student was going to walk out. He had never spent time outside of his community...
Edit Day…this is always a bit of a long day for us. It’s a tough one because we go through all of the students work, all 35,000 images, and editing down to about 470 photos with which we’ll create...