Very busy week

Last week was a very exciting week. I did eight tours in five days. It was great to be busy, meet really nice people, show them around Paris and teach them a few things about photography and their cameras.

I hosted clients from Woodinville, WA, Baltimore, MD, and Muskegon, MI. Each tour was a little different from each other as they all had different objectives. We had a good time covering lots of ground and not only photographing during the day, but at night as well. Interesting, all three shooters were using the Nikon D300 which is the camera I own and use so I was able to show all of them some very important and useful custom settings that they were unaware of.

One of the drawbacks of a one day three hour tour is that there is so much to see and experience in Paris that it’s impossible to cover that much ground. Fortunately, Ross from the Baltimore area booked me for five days. This allowed us to not only see a lot of different parts of the city, but it allowed us to really concentrate on expanding his photography skills. For example, one day was set to cover many of the traditional landmarks, but composed in unique ways, two days were spent going over areas off the beaten path, one day was committed to night photography and one day we spent in my studio with a hired model and we worked on off camera flash, how to manually set flash exposure and how to properly use flash for portrait photography. It was a fun week.

In fact, next summer I’ll be hosting a four day photography workshop. We’ll do classroom type stuff in the morning for several hours and then spend the afternoon out photographing Paris. During the four days we’ll cover such things as:

Setting proper exposure
How to create an image rather than just taking a snapshot
Using our cameras in creative ways
Using motion, intentional blurs, panning
Fully understand how ISO, Shutter Speed and F-Stop all work together
Off camera flash and why it's better than on your camera
Onsite shoot with model using flash, light stands and umbrella's
Night photography

Website design and hosting
Useful software
Gear
Printing
How to make money with our photography

And more to come as I put together the agenda.

Below are a few of the photos from our week photographing Paris.