Paris workshop 4

Sherry and Rachel on the steps of Montmartre,



The day started with some rain and when we arrived to our destination the skies cleared, we have been very lucky with the weather through the week.



We took these close to the top, and again attracted a lot of attention among all the tourist. We stayed very conscious of pickpockets and as we took turns taking pictures we would watch each others back and never ran into any problems.

One of our assignment was to photograph each other, one challenge being dealing with non-models, how to make the subject at ease, direct a good pose, and also to know what it feels like to be on the other side of the camera.  It was a good exercise.

We were surrounded by beautiful architecture and sights and I felt a little disoriented to pick a good spot for taking a picture of Hassan, but he stayed very patient with me, thank you.

Paris workshop 3

A few more pictures from our day at the Eiffel tour,



This is the "male" group of the workshop, with Scott Robert in the front. This picture was taken after a nice dinner in a small restaurant in the quartier latin, at about 10PM, it stays bright pretty late here.



Kim Nodurft had brought with her a lens baby, and was encouraging us all to try it, this is the picture I took with it, so I've added the lens baby to my long wish list. I really appreciated the opportunity to try new equipment.



Leaving the Eiffel tour we found a tree alley where we continued shooting.



We spend the 3rd day around Montmartre.

Paris Wedding Photography workshop 2

Day 1 was quite intense, after a portrait in natural light lesson at the hotel, we all (20 of us) went to the Louvre and on to Notre Dame. We provided a good bit of entertainment with our heavy equipment, we appeared as paparazzi following 2 Hollywood celebreties! and the locals didn't want to miss an opportunity to meet our stars!
Rachel, our beautiful model. Rachel and Sherry posed for us endlessly with always a beautiful smile and grace, thank you to you both.



Sherry in front of the Louvres, we didn't really know it but you need special permission to shoot "professional photography" there, so we were kicked out pretty quick by a security guy on a bike.



A little romance.



One of the very geometrical "pond" in front of the Louvre



In front of Notre Dame, unfortunatly we arrived too late to go to the top.



This man was a pigeon magnet.

Paris workshop 1

What a wonderful experience this workshop was!
Great teaching by 2 of the top leading wedding photographers, Scott Robert and Kim Nodurft, in beautiful Paris, France.
All the stars were aligned for these amazing 5 days, the weather was nice, the group of photographers was just awesome people. It was, as our British fellows were saying, brillant.
More pictures to come in the folowing days.