Last week I hosted another MJ2Day workshop in my home in Phoenix. This is the awesome group of attendees who travelled in from all over the world.
On the first day of the workshop, I took the group out to do a mock engagement shoot throughout my neighborhood. I was able to demonstrate how I run a typical engagement shoot -- finding great light, interacting with the couple, posing and looking for compositional elements -- all things we talked about earlier in the day.
Our two models were Scott and Kari who have been married for just over a year. They are from Canada but are snow birds of sorts since Scott is a golf pro. Kari is a photographer who has followed my blog for some time and recently become a friend. Besides being super-cute, Kari gets the prize for being my best blog commenter. If you randomly pick a blog post from the last couple years, chances are Kari left a super-sweet comment on it. I've loved getting to know Scott and Kari recently and was thrilled when they volunteered to model for us. These two were so cute together and total troopers in front of 15 cameras.
On the first day of the workshop, I took the group out to do a mock engagement shoot throughout my neighborhood. I was able to demonstrate how I run a typical engagement shoot -- finding great light, interacting with the couple, posing and looking for compositional elements -- all things we talked about earlier in the day.
Our two models were Scott and Kari who have been married for just over a year. They are from Canada but are snow birds of sorts since Scott is a golf pro. Kari is a photographer who has followed my blog for some time and recently become a friend. Besides being super-cute, Kari gets the prize for being my best blog commenter. If you randomly pick a blog post from the last couple years, chances are Kari left a super-sweet comment on it. I've loved getting to know Scott and Kari recently and was thrilled when they volunteered to model for us. These two were so cute together and total troopers in front of 15 cameras.
We started out the shoot by walking down the street in the late afternoon light. We couldn't have asked for a more gorgeous day for a shoot!
I love the good light we were able to find:
Throughout the shoot I would occasionally turn to the attendees and explain what I was doing, share my camera settings, and answer any questions they had.
How cute are these two?
As we talked about earlier that day, the background of a photo -- here an empty lot -- is not nearly as important as good light:
When we got back after the shoot, I off-loaded my images and showed the attendees my photos straight out of camera. It was a great learning experience and the attendees left feeling more confident in running their own shoots.
I'm thrilled that once again, the MJ2DAY was a huge success! I love that I know 14 more photographers from around the world who are working hard to bring their photography and businesses to the next level. I can't wait to see where their individual journeys take them!
I wanted to give a shout-out to our fabulous sponsors who added so much value to the attendees' workshop experience: Destination I Do Magazine, Pictage, Jared Platt Workshops, ShowIt, Queensberry, Two Bright Lights, Electric Dreams Design, B&H, and Sitehouse. Thank you so much for your support!
Photographers - if you're interested in attending an upcoming workshop, click here to go to the workshop website for all the details!
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Equipment used for this shoot:
Canon 5D Mark III
Canon 50mm 1.2 lens
Canon 70-200 2.8 lens
I'm thrilled that once again, the MJ2DAY was a huge success! I love that I know 14 more photographers from around the world who are working hard to bring their photography and businesses to the next level. I can't wait to see where their individual journeys take them!
I wanted to give a shout-out to our fabulous sponsors who added so much value to the attendees' workshop experience: Destination I Do Magazine, Pictage, Jared Platt Workshops, ShowIt, Queensberry, Two Bright Lights, Electric Dreams Design, B&H, and Sitehouse. Thank you so much for your support!
Photographers - if you're interested in attending an upcoming workshop, click here to go to the workshop website for all the details!
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Equipment used for this shoot:
Canon 5D Mark III
Canon 50mm 1.2 lens
Canon 70-200 2.8 lens
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