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Other than the fact you get to hang out with me all day…. 
Here’s a great article from Seattle Bride Magazine showing a side by side comparison between the shots the pro got and the shots the amateur got.
Friends don’t let friends take their wedding pictures.
I decided to force myself to always have the camera around with the kids.
I shot these over the past couple days.
Here are some of my images from the Foundation Workshop.
I’ll be posting my thoughts on the workshop this week.
Here’s an amazing video of the behind the scenes at the Foundation Workshop 7 that I just got back from.
It was made by Vlad from Vlad Photo
I’ll be posting my thoughts about the workshop soon, in the meantime enjoy this.
FW7 from Vladimir Chaloupka on Vimeo.
Okay, I’m a little excited.
I just got word that one of my images placed 3rd in the ISPWP Winter photo contest.
This was my first time ever entering a contest, so I was really surprised to hear I placed 3rd in one of the categories. Especially considering the competition, many of the other photographers are people I’ve admired and looked up to for years.
Here’s the image from Satdip + Gurpreet’s wedding back in May.
Next week I’ll be doing something that’s been on my wish list for a long time.
I’ll be traveling to Dallas to attend the Foundation Workshop.
I’ve been to lots of workshops for wedding photographers, but this one’s different. No brides, no models, no white dresses.
The workshop was started by Huy Nguyen of f8 Studio. Huy is a former photojournalist who worked for papers like the Chicago Tribune and the Dallas morning news. Huy’s specialty is, obviously, documenting weddings as a photojournalist. The Foundation Workshop is designed to give wedding photographers who have no photojournalist experience some of the skills that newspaper photographers use every day.
The easist way to do this is to give the particiapants ‘real world’ newspaper assignments. Everything from the local skate park, animal shelter, a local family or even a greenhouse.
The first day of the workshop is all theory and shooting instruction. Then things get interesting. The next day you go out your assignment and cover the story. Your pictures are then critiqued by your team leader and then you go out the next day and cover the exact same assignment. Hopefully with the critique and instruction from your team leader and mentors, the second days pictures should be much better.
The final day is spent editing and creating slideshows for the final dinner to be shown to everyone.
The line up of staff (which outnumbers students!) is amazing! Years and years of experience shooting for major papers (and even a Pulitzer winner!) and hundreds of weddings. Even the students have some awesome portfolios. This workhop books up years in advance (just like wedding photographers!)
I’ll be honest, I’m really excited AND scared sh*tless. But, whatever doesn’t kill you only makes you stronger.
For anyone trying to get a a hold of me, I’ll pretty much be out of the loop for all of next week. I’ll have access to my email/voicemail, but I won’t have a lot of time for checking in.
See ya in a week!
Heading upstairs…
the grousome twosome.
they hate when we dump water on them….
But have no problem doing it to themselves…
Emma
Afterwords, Emma and her favourite book.
And Jack playing in a cardboard box…
