#833 On Location Lighting – Course Review

A few weeks ago we ran a second session of On Location Lighting with Blair Gable.

We had a strong group of photographer who soaked up Blair’s info.

Some comments:

Exactly what I wanted and needed.

I was really impressed with the course with Blair, and with your studio. Thanks again for offering such high-quality courses. I can’t wait to see what else you’ve got in store!

Tons of tips to handle many different scenarios.

Join us as Blair shares his skills in September on “Shooting Summer Sports.”

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On Location Lighting - student success - © Danielle Donders

 

#832 Creative Business Seminar Series – starting a business…

We’ve been in business a long time and made many, many mistakes. I’ve also taught many photographers and helped them start their creative businesses.

The photography is hard but easier to learn than the business side.

Why?

Because most new photographers LOVE photography but don’t love the challenges presented in business.

We’ve shaken up our long running “Creative Business Seminar” into smaller different segments to help people answer:

• What’s involved in starting a business?

• What do I need to succeed?

• I have artistic skills… but how am I ever going to sell my work?

• How am I ever going to manage my own collection of artwork?

• How can the web help my business?

Our new Creative Business Seminar Series allows photographers and other creative people answers to these questions! We’ve gathered some experts to help you answer these types of questions.

Creative Business Seminar Series

• Is a Creative Business Right for Me?

September – In this seminar we provided questions and insights to help you find answers. This is based on many early business mistakes and years of teaching the Creative Business Seminar.

How to start a new business

Harry Nowell

• Learn Better Selling Strategies for Creative Businesses

October – We have brought in a veteran sales man who spent almost 40 years learning sales techniques, sales strategies and developing trusted relationships with clients based on solid communication skills.

how to sell

Cedric Nowell, 36 year veteran salesman

• “Managing your Creative Work

October – We’ve got a seasoned graphic designer to assist you in developing a library as well as refining your work and using the powerful output tools of Adobe Lightroom.

Peter Handley Lightroom expert

Peter Handley, Registered Graphic Designer

• “Web Basics for Business”

Coming soon… We’re there to help you decipher the world of web. We explain strategies to harness the web and get people finding you and your business!

#830 “Do something different” – reader photo on the blog…

Last week we sent out our latest Exposed! photo newsletter urging you to do something differently!

We poked you to start exploring new passions and ideas.

And we asked you to send us something different…

Robert’s submission, below, caught our eye and won its way onto the photo blog. He says:

That’s three of my four children, I was trying to get the youngest at 20 months to don a pair of goggles but she wasn’t to happy about it. My plan wasn’t to place all four images together, but while doing some adjustments in Lightroom, I thought I would try something different using Photoshop.  I was still thinking about the missing photo of my daughter that would have completed the scene, then remembered I had a colourful abstract shot of some pool flotation devices.  

All the images were shot on a very hot day with a helpful cloud cover, using a 50mm wide open at 1.8. On the smaller APS-C sensor, that equates to about 85mm, a nice portrait lens and one of my favourite focal lengths.

What caught our attention?

It’s a photo of portraits of very different kids but all very similar – shot with a similar thread in a different way. I like it…

Nicely done.

And for his creative fun Robert wins one month in our Online Photo Program – this month’s challenge is motion. Stay tuned for some student results.

student photo

© Robert M - Doing something differently

 

#827 – Photography Newsletter on the Blog – Do Something Differently!

For our Exposed! photo newsletter this month we explore ways to help you stand out from the masses.

I have seen many people embrace photography, develop their creativity and find a new outlet for fun.

With more people, come more challenges. But more than ever people are shooting more of the same things.

One particular challenge is separating yourself and your work from the everyone else’s. Below we explore ways to create some buzz for the work you produce.

In this edition of Exposed! We challenge you to do something differently!

Read the whole article…

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Doing golf shots differently - this shot sold well because it's different than most other golf shots!

#826 Online Photography Program – photo challenge results

Members of our online photo course worked hard this month exploring the compositional complexities of geometry and triangles. After tutorials, notes and technical suggestions they were challenged to import triangles prominently into their photos. Triangulate, they did…

Online Photo Program?

We run a web based photo course to help people grow, photographically, at their own speed, from anywhere the internet reaches.

Have limited time? Live far, far away? It’s a great way to improve your photography and become connected with a diverse photo based community.

Members share ideas, critique and encouragement online.

Interested? Check the online course. Register at the bottom of the membership page or contact us.

How many triangles can you find, below?

Online Photo Challenge

Online Photo Challenge - Triangles - © Madeleine B

Online Photo Challenge

Online Photo Challenge - Triangles - © Andrew B

Online Photo Challenge

Online Photo Challenge - Triangles - © Wilal

Online Photo Challenge

Online Photo Challenge - © JaneB

Online Photo Program

Online Photo Challenge - Triangles - © Marcel

#824 Art Exhibition – Watershed in Chelsea

Watershed Art Exhibition

Watershed Art Exhibition

We have talked about Watershed before. It’s a photo project that follows a watershed from the headwaters of Gatineau Park towards the Gatineau River, Ottawa River and the ocean. Over 11 years we have followed the trickle from over a 10 km stretch documenting its path.

The exhibition has been seen in different venues but we are bringing it to Chelsea, a mere 73 metres from the actual Watershed route.

Please join us in Chelsea as we bring Watershed home.

Plus tôt cette année, nous avons commencé notre exposition de photos des bassins versants qui suit, en partie, le bassin versant du ruisseau Chelsea à partir des sources dans le parc de la Gatineau et serpente à travers les secteurs résidentiels, les infrastructures publiques et à nouveau à travers le parc de la Gatineau. Le ruisseau coule à proximité du Lac Meech, derrière le centre visiteur de la CCN, à travers le village Old Chelsea, sous l’autoroute 5, puis remonte par les résidences de Chelsea et par le parc de la Gatineau via le chemin Notch.

Le projet a pris 11 ans à ce jour.

Le travail est à venir à Chelsea – à un 73 mètres du ruisseau qui a été photographié!

Watershed Art Exhibition

Watershed Art Exhibition

Details:

Friday, August 17th; noon-5pm

Vendredi, le 17 août ; de midi à 17 heures

Saturday, August 18th; 10-5pm

Samedi, le 18 août, de 10 heures à 17 heures

Sunday, August 19th; 1-5pm

Dimanche, le 19 août, de 13 heures à 17 heures

63 ch Notch, Chelsea, Qc – an easy 15 minute drive from central Ottawa and one kilometre from Old Chelsea Village.

63 chemin Notch, Chelsea, Québec – à 15 minutes d’Ottawa centre et a un kilomètre du

village Old Chelsea.

Watershed Art Exhibition

Watershed Art Exhibition

#823 Post Processing with Adobe Lightroom with Peter Handley, RGD

Get ready for another leap forward in your photo education!

We have booked Peter Handley, a registered graphic designer with over 20 years experience to help catapult you forward as you learn to master Adobe Lightroom – the current photo editing software for batches of imagery. Adobe Photoshop is ideal for extensive editing of single or small batches of photos. Read the difference between Lightroom and Photoshop.

Read about the Lightroom Seminar.

You will learn to:

• manage your hundreds/thousands/millions of photos

• pull unseen beauty from your digitally captured imagery

• produce beautiful prints, slideshows, web pages and books easily from your files

Details:

The sessions are coming up this fall as part of our Creative Business Series:

Saturdays, October 20th and 27th in the afternoons.

$115 for each session or $200 for both sessions (please add taxes).

Register for the Lightroom Seminar (at the bottom of the page.)

Lightroom Photo Seminar - Ottawa

Before Lightroom

Lightroom Photo Seminar - Ottawa

After Lightroom!

#822 Photographing the Photographer!


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David Barbour - Ottawa street photography

In mid July I taught the Urban Compositions Photo Safari on two HOT days.

On my wanderings back to the car at the end of the session I stumbled upon David Barbour – well known veteran photographer in the city. He was shooting some street photography – photojournalistically capturing a musician.

David Barbour - Ottawa street photography

Photographing the Photographer David Barbour

David was busy shooting and I could not resist – I pulled out a camera and lens and started photographing the photographer – hunting the hunter!

I met David many years ago. He still shoots significantly on film and Leica equipment where he can. He’s had a fabulous career (so far) including:

• World Press Award 1986

• Canada Council Grants

• Work for CIDA, and many editorial outlets

• Extensive exhibitions

We connected afterwards and exchanged some fun. Visit David’s website.

David Barbour - Ottawa street photography

David Barbour - Ottawa street photography

#820 – Rowing Photography Presentation @ Ottawa Rowing Club

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Rowing Photography Assignment - Ottawa Magazine

Last summmer I spent many early mornings photographing the Ottawa Rowing Club for Ottawa Magazine. It was a fun assignment.

This week I return to the rowing club to present the collection of photos I produced last summer. Rowers (elite and newbie) will be there as well as many people intrigued by the fun at the rowing club.

The nice thing is YOU are invited to come and see what the club is all about. Come for the people, the rowing or the photos!

There will be some complimentary copies of Ottawa Magazine and photos will be available for purchase.

Details:

Friday, July 20th; 7pm onwards

Ottawa Rowing Club; off Sussex Dr, near the McDonald Cartier Bridge

Rowing Photography

Rowing Photography

#819 Night Light Photography Class – Ottawa

It’s back this October!

One of the most fun courses we offer! Night Light shares the secrets of lighting up the night in ways you have never seen:

• Discover ghosts

• Paint with flashlights

• Create race cars out of ordinary traffic

• Pull magic colours from the night sky

Night Light Photography Class

Night Light Photography Workshop

This course has run for years and makes people smile:

I have never before taken photos at night – (successfully!) and it is becoming more like ‘art’, which is one of my favorite outcomes of this course. Harry is an awesome teacher. I give him 10/10!” SS

The course is designed to teach new photo techniques at night and I must say, this the most fun I’ve ever had in a photo workshop.“ BM

I REALLY REALLY had a wonderful time.” PR

Oh, it’s fun. What can I say!?

Friday, October 19, 2012 – 6-10pm; Practical Shooting
Saturday, October 20, 2012 – 6-10pm; Practical Shooting
Wednesday, October 24, 2012 – 6-10pm; Classroom Review and Critique

Cost: $325 + taxes

Central Ottawa

See past photos from Night Light. More. And more. And MORE!

Read more and register for Night Light!
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