Had a great mentoring session this evening with Alexandra. This worked out all so well that I have to make an entry of it. Alexandra found me through Youtube and won a Canon 40D DVD training video , one of the first actually, two months ago. She visits and makes comments regularly, so many of you will recognize her name. She has been studying the lessons and enrolled in the Mentorship program, and it just coincidentally happens that she lives in Dallas, where the shoot was this weekend, so we talked about it and I thought it would be a good idea for her to come shoot as my assistant yesterday.
All I can say is WOW. What a great experience for the both of us. She did SOOOOO good and I am very proud of her and her images. Its a ton of work to shoot a wedding, and she really rolled with it. She mentioned something to me that made me feel good and that was there is a difference between learning the lessons on the school or DVD and then actually doing them on a shoot. She knows first hand now, that those composition lessons are very serious and technically very sound. All day we were going back to them over and over and over, textures, thirds, shapes, sense of depth, etc.
We spent time reviewing her images from yesterday and I am completely confident she has everything is takes to go professional if she wanted. It has been a very rewarding experience.
I am thinking about opening this up to more students but I am not sure how it would work. I am curious….who would be interested in coming to shoot a wedding with me as a type of mentorship? Ok…I am just flirting with this idea, so Im not making promises, but would like to know if there is an interest?
I certainly would!!!!!!!!!! 🙂
You know I’m game.
Didn’t you say you had a wedding somewhere close by on the 26th?
I live in Miami Michael so anytime you are in the south Florida area you can count on me!
If your ever in the Northwest It would be a true privlidge to be able to do something like this, but I would also travel further to be able participate in this. What an Opportunity this would be!!! Thanks Michael!
For everyone who is interested just know that you will have a blast working with Michael and you will learn SO MUCH! He truly is a wonderful teacher.
I’d love it! You know you have to do a destination wedding in Vegas at some point, right?
Heck yeah! When and if in California… Bring it on!!!
Michael I would definitley make that investment to come to Alabama to get some hands on training.
I do however understand that you would have to properly screen your invitee’s and ensure that both parties agree to a specific understanding.
Otherwise it’s a great idea and I am sure you will have alot of people requesting this service.
Thanks for the thought!
LOVE TOO! i need all the hekp shooting a pic I can get…..flirt some more with the idea…..
I can’t believe I’m about to admit this, but I found you on facebook. One of my facebook friends had commented on your pictures and I checked them out. I bought a 20D last year and have really gotten into photography. I’ve assisted at a wedding and done one small one on my own. I’m doing two others this summer. I would LOVE the opportunity to come with you to a wedding. I’ve watched several of the videos and intend to go through them all. I’ve been meaning to contact you for a while b/c I’d be excited to learn more. I feel like a lot could be learned by getting the opp. to actually come with you. I’d be excited to, even if it just meant following you around for the day, carrying your lenses.
Hi Casey! Id love to have you. Please feel free to join us at our Mentorship lunch in May. There will be other photographers there and it would be a great way to meet you in person and answer any questions you might have. Thank you so much for your kind words, I sincerely appreciate it. : )
I am new to your site as of today, but I can’t wait to get started on the school! I would LOVE to do a mentoring session with you! Thanks to Melissa for me finding you.