One of my favorite tools in my photography studio is putty. I’ve shown you how to use it to keep tomatoes from rolling and to hold down the sides of a curling surface.
Have you ever had the problem of a spoon that’s just a little too short for the width of your dish? I call it the sinking spoon. Putty can fix that! This video shows you how. (Click CC at the bottom of the video if you’d like to read the captions.)
Recent product and packaging styling and photography for the Washington Red Raspberry Council and their partnership with Rubicon Cupcakes.
Honestly, I’ve always been a teacher. It’s something that I’ve been reminded of again in recent months.
It began with teaching group exercise in college and then evolved into more one-on-one encounters with personal training. I moved on to a career in academia developing curriculum to help people move more and eat well. That was followed by using the train-the-trainer model across the state of Kentucky to teach others how to teach others the curricula I’d developed.
I think in explaining that you’ll see that there is no surprise things have come full circle for me. To a point where what I enjoy most is finding creative ways to teach others how to build skills and confidence in creating their own photos.
I jumped into the online teaching world powered by the ideas that I needed a big course that covered everything I could offer with a higher price tag to match.
And I created that course - Confused to Confident (CtoC). And many of you have taken it. And many of you have let me know how much it helped you - with creating your photography style, understanding natural light, using your camera in manual mode, developing a step-by-step process from stove to set...
Each time I re-watch it, I’m not going to lie, I’m a little impressed with myself that I put in all the work to create it. I’m extremely proud of it. It is a really great course.
We all have different goals and one big course may not be focused enough to move you forward in the very specific area that you have your sights set on.
So much content at once can be way too much to take in. Yes, you get lifetime access, but life offers many distractions and there are many people who have not fully completed the course. This honestly makes me sad. I want you to finish the course and move forward.
It is out of budget for some. CtoC really is moderately priced when it comes to courses of its size (it’s only $297), but I realize that this can be a lot to pay when you aren’t quite sure if each piece of it is what you need to learn.
Having that course is in some ways holding me back from diving deeper into some subjects and types of photography that I’d really like to teach about.
So while CtoC will still exist, my focus over the coming months will go to CreatingYOU.® Quick Courses which has really been an idea on the back burner since the day I launched my single course.
I’ve just felt like I wasn’t allowed to create a suite of courses because of the distracting noise of others telling me - that’s not how you do it.
But my goal is to be approachable, accessible, and to teach things or a way of doing and looking at them that you likely haven’t experienced yet. CreatingYOU.® Quick Courses will allow me to do this.
These workshop-style will be designed to finish in a day or less. Some may be a 60-minute workshops, while others may have a few modules and projects for you to complete as you work your way through. They will range from $29 to $79 each based on the topic and content within.
Have some thoughts or needs? Reach out to me and let me know. I have an ongoing list of topics to teach about and I’d love to know what you would like to learn.
The first to launch this summer will be Surface School. You’ll learn to break out of boredom with your photography surfaces in a way that will allow you to create photos that are specific to your style and brand.
More soon!
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