Rod Evans' Creative Training Series
Bio: Rod Evans
Portrait Artist Rod Evans has become renowned for his innovative portraits by combining an intense love of art and a visionary style. He has been requested to lecture nationally as well as internationally for a host of venues including PPA's Imaging USA, WPPI, and Senior Portrait Artists Events. Rod's images have been exhibited in art galleries, showcased in Canon training books as well as magazine publications, and he has been featured on the cover of Professional Photographers of America Magazine. He is also featured as one of 11 top photographers for Canon USA's workflow training DVD. He is a PPA National Award winner who has been on Photoworkshop.com and PhotoVision Video Magazine. Rod was selected to be member of the prestigious Society of XXV and the Canon Explorers of Light Program as one of the 75 most influential photographers in the world.
Rod's background in art and photography has taught him to relax and study his subject, bringing out the best in each person he photographs. The art is in communication and learning to feel the image verses just seeing the image. This is how he is able to create art in each subject he photographs.
“Photography is more than a two dimensional media to me, if done well you can capture a beautiful part of a persons soul." -Rod Evans
David Tejada Workshop
I spoke to David Tejada today and registered for his
“Small Strobes Big Results” lighting
workshop over in Denver, CO on 4-25-09. I have
listened to several podcast interviews in the past
year that have featured David and his corporate photography business.
I’m a Strobist at heart and am really
pumped about the opportunity to soak up knowledge
about using off-camera strobes from an industry
guru. David keeps the groups small. I’ll be 1 of
only 10 attendees at this workshop, sweet! And a
road trip to Colorado won’t be bad either!
This will definitely up my game as a photographer here
in Omaha. The information gained and skills refined at
this workshop will be a serious addition to my lighting
arsenal for future wedding photography, senior
portraits, children, family portraits, product
photography, sports, etc.
Bio: David Tejada
David Tejada is one of Colorado's most highly regarded
location corporate photographers. He is recognized for
his dramatic and innovative photographic lighting
techniques and graphic style.
Also known for his approachable personality, David has
the reputation of being a person who is easy to work
with who takes the worry out of corporate work. With
more than twenty-five years of shooting experience,
David has developed a clear understanding of both
corporate and designer needs. His work successfully
integrates exciting color and strong graphic
compositions to effectively communicate his client’s
message.
David shoots both domestic and international
assignments for graphic design firms and Fortune 500
companies nationwide. With 25 years of annual report
photography experience, David is equally at home
hovering in a helicopter over a drill rig in the Andes,
creating dramatic lighting in a laboratory setting or
shooting a CEO portrait in New York City.
He is also an effective communicator, comfortable with
all levels of employees from management to support
field staff, and sensitive to the political and
interpersonal issues at work. David treats each
assignment as an editorial essay, stressing strong,
compelling images that communicate the story. Finally,
he is an excellent problem solver, adapting quickly to
changing conditions and technical challenges, remaining
focused on the assignment goals while adhering to
practical time and financial constraints.
Learn how to get BIG RESULTS from small
strobes!
Join me, corporate annual report photographer David
Tejada, for this one day lighting workshop. With 25
years of location lighting experience under my belt,
I’ll show you that you don’t need to load yourself down
with lots of expensive gear to achieve big results.
You'll learn how to:
• control and modify the quality of light produced from
a typical shoe mounted flash; • properly use umbrellas,
soft boxes, snoots, grids, silks and bounce techniques;
• use a single strobe combined with existing light as
well as more complicated multiple light set-ups; • PLUS
bonus pro photo business information.
Use Your Flash OFF Camera
We’ll spend a lot of time learning how light works and
how to get consistent results with your flash
photography. You’ll leave this workshop knowing how to
use your flash off camera and how to consistently
achieve the results you want. You’ll be able to
confidently produce a portrait in any environment that
you encounter on location.
Shoot and Learn
Participants will have the opportunity to shoot each of
the lighting demos with their own cameras as well as
the lighting set-ups during the workshop. Lighting
demos are a wonderful way to build a catalog of
lighting effects that you can draw on for future
reference.
Bonus: Important Business Information
In addition to the lighting aspect of this workshop,
I’ll share my experience in developing a successful
corporate photography business as well as how I handle
my current workflow.
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This is going to be a great learning experienced and
I’m stoked to be attending.
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David Ziser Workshop
I just signed up for David Ziser’s wedding photography
workshop, “Digital WakeUp Call Tour 2009 - A New
Dawn”, that will hit Omaha on 9-14-09. I’m
looking forward to attending as his blog has been a great source of
information.
Bio: David
Ziser
Photographer, Lecturer, and Trainer
David Ziser, an internationally-renowned wedding
photographer, has shared his knowledge with tens of
thousands of photographers in five languages and in 14
countries worldwide. Studio Photography acclaimed
"Award winning photographer, David Ziser, is showing
the world how to take wedding pictures." The Dallas
Morning News extolled Ziser as "wedding photographer
extraordinaire." David is one of 101 worldwide who hold
the highest honor of "Fellow" bestowed by the American
Society of Photographers.
The seminar will be divided into
three sections:
Master Your Lighting - Master Your
Market
David will present an intensive session on creative
lighting and exciting composition. Considered by
many to be a "master of lighting", David will
demonstrate just how easily and quickly you can light
your images beautifully and dramatically, making them
stand out from the crowd. Watch how he uses
on-camera flash, off-camera flash, filtered flash,
bounce flash, and many other lighting techniques to
create images that really rise above the crowd in a
wedding market that has been diluted with so much flat,
one dimensional photography.
Don't shoot weddings - no problem. David's techniques
work equally well for the portrait and senior
photographer seeking to differentiate their creative
look and style from the "rest of the pack."
In This Lighting and Photography Segment David Will
Show You:
• 32 ways to make the best use of your on-camera and
off-camera flash for creative and dramatic effects;
• Composition - the secret ingredient of a great
photograph; lens selection and camera settings for the
best possible results with your gear;
• How to get the best results out of the new ISO
cameras;
• And lastly, how the new video capabilities of these
new cameras can transform your product offerings.
"Magic Bullet" Techniques to Make Your
Production Headaches Disappear
Are you tired of hearing the term "workflow-this" and
"workflow-that" everywhere? Well, it's about time we
move beyond mundane digital production processes and
open our eyes to new, streamlined methods of running
our digital studios efficiently, effectively, and
profitably. David will be discussing 5 major
software "Magic Bullets" in the course of his
presentation.
• Lightroom 2.0 - 5 Wedding/Portrait specific
techniques guaranteed to shorten your time at the
computer and make your images sing.
• How to use other software "magic bullets" to add
pizzazz to your wedding/portrait images and make
digital workflow nearly effortless, highly efficient,
and fun.
• David will discuss and demonstrate one today's
software best kept secrets. He will show you how
to design an album with only one mouse click and then
"fine-tune" it to perfection with only a few more
clicks.
• He will discuss album design - good and bad, but
concentrating mostly on how to make your albums become
a reflection of your studio's identity.
Making Your Business More Profitable
Whether you are a seasoned pro, or part time
professional, or just getting started in your business,
David will point you to creative, profit building
strategies for growing your business. Digital has
changed the rules for many photographers. David
will discuss and suggest how "digital" opens doors to
new possibilities for all of us wanting to grow our
business.
He will share with you his very successful marketing
strategies that have enabled his studio to reach the
best clients in his market and deliver his highly
profitable and most beautiful products ever.
David's discussion will include 20 new products and
solid marketing ideas to increase your sales using
today's digital technologies. These products and
marketing ideas are targeted to today's customers and
work for any photographer - aspiring pro to seasoned
professional - and will add substantially to your
bottom line.
...the only bummer is that the workshop is still 6
months out at this point!
Process Comparison
Standard Color
Warm Muted Color
Antique Brown Tint
Holga Black & White
Madden Family
Stealth Bomber
I'm famous... well, probably not!
Whilst shooting pics at the cross-town rivalry football game earlier tonight pitting the Papillion-LaVista Monarchs vs. the Papillion-LaVista South Titans I found myself behind the end zone with J.J. Davis, the Sports Director for local TV station KPTM FOX Channel 42. I was very impressed, he was flying around the perimeter of the field lugging a TV camera on his shoulder shooting his own video! He told me he’s been shooting his own video for the last 30 years. He took a quick pan of me shooting photos of the game and told me he’d use it as a clip in his sportscast later in the evening, which he actually did!
They cover highlights from 15 area games so the video is 11 minutes long. I’ve embedded the video below.
To see my television debut:
Move the slider to the 7:00 mark and see the beginning of the coverage for the game I shot. I appear at the 7:21 mark for, well, not long enough in my opinion. Sorry ladies, I’m already betrothed to another!
If the embedded video does not appear or work properly then follow this link to see it.
2008 Bellevue/Offutt AFB Runway Run
2008 Papillion Mayor's Triathlon
The shots from today’s
triathlon are being uploaded
and should be released for viewing sometime tomorrow
afternoon, possibly not til the evening. 3,600
images take a wee bit of time to upload!
Everyone was probably glad it was overcast this morning
so the temperature didn’t get out of control. My oldest
daughter (8 yrs) came with me for the shoot of today’s
event. She got kind of sick of it about halfway
through, just standing around in the heat while dad
takes a bunch of pictures! Her spirits lifted after she
found a water spicket and soaked her head to cool down
before befriending some playful dogs.
My favorite photo
This is my favorite shot out of all the photos I’ve ever taken. It is a shot of my first daughter immediately after being born. I like the image itself because of the high contrast in lighting and the fact that you don’t see the doctor’s head, just his body as necessary to handle the newborn child. Obviously, being my first child, this image has serious sentimental value and evokes a lot of emotion in me. What really gets me about this shot is that I had one split second to capture it and if I had missed it, it would have been gone forever. This shot would have been impossible to re-create. The doctor paused, knowing I had the camera in my hand, asked me if I wanted a quick “posed” shot and then handed her off to the waiting nurses to clean her up. There was certainly no option to say, “Excuse me doctor, could you get the baby back from the nurses and hold her up for me again. I didn’t get a very good shot of her.”
The image quality is lacking compared to today’s standards because this was shot in Nov. ’99 (yes they had digital cameras back then) using a Sony camera that captured 640x480 pixel images and wrote them to a 1.4MB floppy disk that you slid into the camera rather than the 1GB to 32GB tiny SD or CF cards that cameras use today.
Papillion Days Duathlon
Photos from this event are listed on the MultiSport page.
Dance Dynamics Spring Performance: Peace Love & Dance
This is a collage of shots I pulled out very quickly from the 11,839 images I collected over the past 2 days. The final images will be posted and released all at once online in the next couple of weeks, before the end of June. You can still pre-register on the Dance page for these photos and receive a $5 coupon by email towards the purchase of prints when the event is released.
Close Call for Dora the Explorer
I walked upstairs earlier this afternoon and was horrified at what I saw. Dora was pinned helplessly beneath a laundry hamper that had somehow tipped over on top of her. She certainly didn’t have the expression of someone in dire straits as she lay there wide-eyed with her normal, infectiously huge smile.
“She must be in shock,” I thought to myself as I dialed
911 after snapping a couple shots of her with my
iPhone’s camera.
The paramedics and the local fire department were able
to remove the laundry hamper and Dora walked away,
miraculously, unscathed! A close call for sure. Much
too close for my liking.
Hubba Bubba
What did you do with your gum after you finished chewing it last time? You’ll either think this looks really cool or really gross!
This a huge log that serves as one support of a footbridge in Itasca State Park in Minnesota where the Mighty Mississip begins. You can wade in the headwaters of the Mississippi River as they flow out of Lake Itasca for several hundred meters before you make your way back to this bridge that you crossed walking to the lake to get started in the first place. This image was shot while standing in the stream, marveling at this memorial to used gum.
Check out this Itasca State Park article in Wikipedia and you’ll see two more photos that lend actual credibility to my story!
