Inspiration part 2

I finished this lighting and posing seminar, which is why i didn't get back to the Friday blog post till monday. This thing was an on line, a live streamed seminar. The instructor was Bambi Cantrell she had 7 students and they all got to do setups with a mix of professional models as well as just folks. I had done online lighting seminar taught by Joe Mcnally. He specilizes in using small (hot shoe flashes) lights to get big results. Because Bambi is a wedding, portrait and budoir photographer she uses bigger lights or just available light, in fact the first day was nothing but available light shooting. The real challenge was the posing aspect. Posing so it looks normal and pretty is an art unto itself! Posing and lighting guys is  relatively easy this class was more concerned with posing women and, I might add, posing and using light in such a way that retouching in post production is kept to a minimum. It was an amazing class, inspiring and challenging and that was just sitting in front of my computer taking notes! Since this class was live you could ask questions via an im sorta thing, I found that the questions that i had were asked by other folks. Creative live is a production of Chase Jarvis, a great  commercial photographer (ads and stuff) he has given himself the mission of educating photographers. He sponsors classes, gets the best folks around to teach them and the cool part is, in there live iteration, they are free. So you wanna watch these things and most are 8 hrs a day for at least 2 days, just enroll. If you want that class after it's over they charge for download cheap at 99 bucks for the one i attended, the same clinic would cost about 2000 if you went and hired bambi. Anyway a great time! I have so many notes and so many people to image, so if you cross my path i'm probably going to want to make a portrait.Just say yes!

Ok, so who else inspires me photography wise?. At the top of the list is Ansel Adams, his autobigraphy sits on my desk and i think i'm always in the process of reading it. Joe Mcnally and Moose Peterson, Frans Lanting, Dewitt Jones and David Ziser, Chase Jarvis, the folks over at Kelby media group they produce Dtown tv which is a great 20 to 30 minute show for beginners and folks new to digital photography, They also produce the Grid. The grid is a talk show with guests and such it's also live and comes on at 1230 est and Photoshop user tv, My bro John Sanborn and Savanah Kaszas. Savanah is a wedding and family photographer I think she has been out of photography school for about a year she's the daughter of a friend of mine and SHE ROCKS. Thats about it, I get inspired by other folks as well, sometimes i just pull stuff up on the net and check them out.
And so ends the friday post on monday
here are some links
http://www.chasejarvis.com/

creativelive.com/

kelbytv.com/
the last one is for phtoshop user tv, Dtown tv and The Grid.



Thanks for reading!! Lets go shoot!!