This past weekend, thanks to creativeLIVE, I enjoyed watching a free three-day “Boudoir Photography Workshop” by photographer Christa Meola. As I’ve mentioned before I love creativeLive!
I’m not a boudoir photographer, but I still found the workshop very informative. Christa covered how to work with women, how to relax your clients, posing, flattering all body types, styling, sets & props, lighting & equipment, post production and Photoshop. All that information is useful when photographing other styles of portrait photography. Then, for me, I found all the information regarding branding, marketing, pricing strategies and selling extremely helpful! I must admit I'm definitely weak in that area! Christa was a terrific and enthusiastic instructor. I have to thank her so much for sharing her knowledge and experience.
A few years ago during a fine art photography workshop I attended at the “Maine Media Workshops” I had my first nude photography shoot. I was rather intimidated at first, but having willing and cooperative models I soon regained my confidence. Below are a couple of my images from that workshop.
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This image is a digital collage created in Photoshop |
FROM creativeLIVE website
“…creativeLIVE is about providing the best free, live creative education on the web. From our studio in Seattle's South Lake Union neighborhood, we offer free online workshops in photography, video, web and graphic design, app development and a wide array of other creative topics.
All of our live creative workshops are available to watch for free in real-time. Once a live workshop is over, we edit the best of this content into easily downloadable files available for purchase through our online store. It's that simple.
At our core, we're a dedicated group of creative-minded individuals. Our aim is to work with the very best instructors who want to share their knowledge and creative expertise with the world.”
Christa's web-site - http://christameola.com
Another good blog posting!
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