It’s Wednesday already and it’s freezing! No, literally, it’s below freezing this morning in Monterrey and we had a planned a full day of shooting water outdoors, beginning at 8am! Our students are dressed like it’s a polar expedition...
Our first assignment day! Like always, this is the day when the rubber meets the road. Outside of critique or edit, we’re pretty much done teaching. The students know how to make proper exposures and they’ve practiced using shallow...
I’ve been a photographer for so long that t’s difficult to remember how hard it was to grasp the concepts that our students are now wrestling with. All I remember is that it took me a long time to...
It’s the first day of the workshop! It’s been 5 years since we were in Monterrey and the last workshop ended with an historic event we’d all like to forget. And THIS workshop begins with an historic event we’ll...
We finished working on the edit last night a little bit earlier than usual and were able to head out to dinner around 9 pm! Now to some of you that may sound like a late-night, but, you’d be...
Every Friday of a beginning workshop is a twisted kind of fun, at least for us tech guys/gals. I’m gonna have to keep this a short one because it’s absolute madness here. In a nutshell, we, the staff, spend...
The plan this morning was to be loaded into cars and on our way to our first location by 8:15 am. We were to arrive at the Instituto Nuevo Amanecer by 9 am, go through an orientation to familiarize...
I can’t start today’s blog without taking a minute to talk about the parrots. Below is a sound recording, and trust me when I say that you’ll want to listen to this! Apparently, several years ago, someone involved in...
I don’t know if we’ve ever done this with one of our blog posts before, but, as we’re always going on about how hectic these workshops can be…I thought the format of a schedule may better convey just how...
The moment when a photographer makes a photograph, he or she makes decisions in two realms simultaneously: aesthetically and technically. The photographer, let’s call her Alma, sees something that sparks a response and decides to make an image using...