tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60477500185251103072024-02-19T11:02:00.138-08:00Joy-ography Workshops - Photography Workshop UtahPhotography Workshops for Utah Valley and Salt Lake Area.meganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15295072881113486917noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6047750018525110307.post-12003789146265111432010-03-11T10:08:00.000-08:002010-03-11T10:08:45.691-08:00Announcing the Fall Joyography Workshop!Well, the workshop was last weekend and we had an AMAZING time - pictures to come soon. We were really impressed with the group and how quickly they caught on and how much they improved in one day. We knew it would work! You can see their pictures from the day at the <a href="http://www.facebook.com/#%21/group.php?gid=183941436902&ref=ts">Joyography Facebook Page</a> as well as their thoughts. <br />
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AND we have been overwhelmed by questions about when the next workshop is going to be so we are ready to announce it! Mark your calendars and reserve a spot for the September 18th Joyography Workshop. We're really excited about it and specific details will be announced in the coming weeks. See you there!<br />
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Some of you may be wondering how much a one day workshop will change the way you shoot and your abilities so I asked an old client turned photographer about it. Just two years she started getting interested in photography and came to me for help. And now, she is AMAZING! Just check out <a href="http://www.tinybirdphotography.com/">her website</a>...<br />
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<i>WOW! If I only knew when I started photography how much a single workshop could change my images, attitude, and business! Learning to control every aspect of my camera and getting to courage to switch to 100% Manual mode made a huge difference in how my images look. I finally got that professional, crisp, clean look that I've always wanted yet never knew how to get!<br />
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Megan is such an amazing mentor. She knows so much about the technical aspects and "decodes" them for the rest of us so it makes perfect sense. I love her positive attitude and tell-it-like-it-is personality! It is so refreshing to know someone who is not only passionate about their art but passionate about sharing how she does it!</i><br />
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Tyan just had her first baby - the cutest little boy and has been able to document it so beautifully. Don't you think?<br />
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OH MY GOODNESS! That was some feirce competition! We counted, recounted, and counted again and again. Finally we came up with a better, more foolproof system and we feel confident we have finally found the winner. It wouldn't have been a big deal except that the finalists were so close! In the end the winner was...<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>JAMIE SMITH</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>JENNIFER HATCH</b></span></div><br />
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IT WAS A TIE!!! Congrats Jamie & Jennifer - we're excited to see you there! And thanks so much for everyone else who participated!meganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15295072881113486917noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6047750018525110307.post-79319898740179697662010-02-01T08:55:00.000-08:002010-02-08T06:54:46.391-08:00Joyography Workshop Scholarship Finalists - TIME TO VOTE!!!Ok, so I'm a push over. Everyone's entries and reasons for wanting to come to the workshop were so heartfelt and convincing that I decided I would let everyone be a finalists and turn the voting over to the readers. So, here they are:<br />
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<a href="http://daveandjamiesmith.blogspot.com/2010/01/i-want-to-be-weiner.html">Jamie and her hilarious photo that makes her fear her kids will never know how dang cute they really are...</a><br />
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<a href="http://skipnkitty.blogspot.com/2010/01/art-of-photography.html">Kristi and her heartfelt plea to be able to capture those beautiful moments that all moms life for...</a><br />
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<a href="http://amberandjake.blogspot.com/2010/01/joy-ography.html">Amber and her new camera that needs some direction...</a><br />
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<a href="http://noelnews.blogspot.com/2010/01/joyography-workshop.html">Robyn and her many reasons for this crash course including finally being able to really get a photo of her kids that captures who they really are...</a><br />
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J<a href="http://mywordseed.blogspot.com/2010/01/joy-ography.html">ennifer and her sad story about missing important moments since she doesn't know how to work the camera...</a><br />
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So once you've chosen your favorite post a comment to let us know who you'd like. And only one vote per person please. <br />
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Voting will close one week from today - Monday, February 8th. Now get to it!meganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15295072881113486917noreply@blogger.com172tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6047750018525110307.post-19809315849583311622010-01-08T08:11:00.000-08:002010-01-08T14:10:04.960-08:00Joyography Workshop Scholarship!!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRqv1yIjJa0LZ7-xvXJq59g5LYoPorn8mTdrWSCYq7YGtk1IDFfwMN0nHUu9gGEmYXLGDVRvVeZRBlrQa2PJreP_rZXKSIBBv8iOfskVopPAHAc92XBOcqCMqXH7y7jktKKH4Oq-bsFiY/s1600-h/randi+kiss+blog+duo+sans+black.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRqv1yIjJa0LZ7-xvXJq59g5LYoPorn8mTdrWSCYq7YGtk1IDFfwMN0nHUu9gGEmYXLGDVRvVeZRBlrQa2PJreP_rZXKSIBBv8iOfskVopPAHAc92XBOcqCMqXH7y7jktKKH4Oq-bsFiY/s640/randi+kiss+blog+duo+sans+black.jpg" /></a><br />
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Alright, the time has come to give away one scholarship to a deserving gal or guy. In order to be eligible to receive the scholarship you need to post on your blog why you think you deserve or need to be at the workshop. Include a recent picture you've taken as well as a link to our workshop blog. Then come back to this post and post a comment linking us back to your blog. Three qualifiers will be chosen by Marisa & I on January 31st and then we will open the voting among our readers(or your friends and family) to decide who will win the scholarship from those three. Sound good? Well, get to it!<br />
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<i>p.s. The voting will start on January 31st after we have chosen the three finalists from your blog entries!</i>meganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15295072881113486917noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6047750018525110307.post-52391277792894687422009-11-23T15:53:00.001-08:002010-01-08T08:45:57.765-08:00The Workshop<a href="http://s360.photobucket.com/albums/oo43/moondoggie_photography/?action=view&current=55b62e31.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" border="0" src="http://i360.photobucket.com/albums/oo43/moondoggie_photography/55b62e31.jpg" /></a><br />
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<i>Each workshop will be opened up to 10 people - on a first-come-first-serve basis. The next workshop is going to be held March 6th, 2010 in American Fork, Utah. Register soon before space fills up! Once you have registered you'll receive confirmation of payment through email and a month before the workshop will receive a packet in the mail with all of the info you need to know for the big day. We can't wait to see you there!<br />
</i>meganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15295072881113486917noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6047750018525110307.post-35027802047056442662009-11-10T14:08:00.000-08:002009-12-10T14:21:41.075-08:00Details<a href="http://s360.photobucket.com/albums/oo43/moondoggie_photography/?action=view&current=63091424.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" border="0" src="http://i360.photobucket.com/albums/oo43/moondoggie_photography/63091424.jpg" /></a>meganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15295072881113486917noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6047750018525110307.post-65510313435068388742009-11-08T09:11:00.000-08:002009-12-10T14:09:46.466-08:00WHY JOY-OGRAPHY: The birth of a workshop.About 8 years ago my sister and I were talking and she said she had bought the cutest matching outfits for her daughters and since I had a nice camera she wondered if I could take them. I had a pentax point and shoot that my parents had bought me my senior year in high school and it took fairly good pictures so I said yes. These are a few of the pictures from that day. I don't remember my theories exactly that day except there were a lot of pretty flowers and once I had seen a photo where the flowers kind of framed the image so I tried to copy that.<br />
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This photo below in particular I was proud of. I didn't know how it happened but I liked how the flowers had kind of filled with light and appeared to be glowing. I knew that something photographic had happened but I couldn't tell you what and I couldn't recreate it and that bothered me.<br />
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So for the next year little while I took more pictures of my sister and her family. And then friends started asking for me to do it too. I still left my camera completely on auto but tried to do some different angles and things. And it usually worked out ok. And slowly my business grew. Eventually I had a portfolio I would carry around with me with prices listed in the back. And I was a professional - meaning people payed me. Meanwhile my best friend from high school, Marisa, was going through the same thing. We'd call each other on the phone and commiserate about our failed sessions or the stress of being a professional but only slightly knowing what we were doing.<br />
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And the learning curve was steep. We both had entire sessions come back from the lab(remember these were the days of film) with nothing but black. It was terrible. We really had no idea what had gone wrong so every time we picked up my pictures we were was filled with dread.<br />
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I remember once a client who was unhappy with the pictures I took looked at a photo in my portfolio and said, "I want a picture like that one - how did you do that?" And I had no idea how I did it. It was just a stroke of luck - as were nearly all of my good images. I'd take as many pictures as I could and hope that at least one picture per roll of film was good. In that three years I went through 6 different cameras. I didn't know what to get so I just kept changing gear hoping it would be right. I asked professionals who were better than me and what gear they used then I got it - without having any idea how to use it. I remember in particular shooting a wedding two days before the birth of my second son - huge with child and three cameras hanging around my neck. I had been "professional" for two years and though my composition wasn't bad still most of my good images were due to luck.<br />
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Though very slowly I did get better. I read every photography book I could get my hands on. Often skipping entire chapters because I didn't understand what they were saying. I scoured others websites trying to recreate what they had taken. It was a process that took years. But it didn't need to take that long.<br />
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A couple of years ago I had a <a href="http://tinybirdphotography.com/index2.php">good friend</a> who wanted to get into photography and asked me for help. And though I had done the same thing for others over the years this time I had gotten to a point where I really knew what to tell her. I helped her choose her gear and gave her some "assignments" and I was amazed how quickly she improved. She talked me a lot as well as others professionals. Her example made me realize that if I had just been given the right tools and the right direction my growth would have been so much quicker. I wouldn't have spent years relying on luck and my camera's auto mode to get a good image. The trick was having someone who could help you understand what all of those chapters in those photography books meant, someone who could tell you why your images didn't work, someone who could tell you which camera to leave hanging around my neck. I love to teach so excited to realize that I could be that person for others now. And thus...the <a href="http://joy-ography.blogspot.com/">joy-ography workshop</a> was born.meganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15295072881113486917noreply@blogger.com2