I had a wonderful time this past Maryland with a dozen photographers, working on The Art of Pregnancy and Newborn. This weekend - April 24th and 25th we have another Pure Posing workshop in my Tustin studio.
Here are some favs:
Workshops
April 22, 2009
March 04, 2009
Online Workshop
Our online workshop is in full swing...you can still join us at www.b--studio.com/online ....
Current vendor prizes include, Books from Sarah Gourdie - Skins from Marta Locklear and Album Viewers from Flash Palette.
August 17, 2008
Last Workshop of the Year
Here we go…last workshop of the year…don’t wait…NOW is the time! Come join me!
September 25th-27th, 2008
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER and to view pricing
Overview of things you will learn - or discuss….
Pricing Pricing Pricing….sessions, baby plans, packages, frames, books, collages and more.
Live model sessions for studio pregnancy, studio newborn and a beach pregnancy session.
Projection- let’s show it and get an overview on Pro Select, client ordering and book making.
Get a 15 min lesson framing - so simple - everything you need to know!
Wrapping -using clients clothing, materials, wraps, mamaThredz and anything else we can get our hands on.
Newborns - the art of the fold - posing the families and all the tricks
Lighting - studio lighting, silhouettes and beach lighting
and more….detailed days below…
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Begins - Thursday, September 25th 5:30pm - Dinner is served and let’s get to know each other. Followed by discussion on how I grew my business in the Pregnancy and Newborn area. Open Q&A and discussion of the next two days.
Friday - September 26th 10am - Let’s get to work! Morning discussion includes:
Anatomy of a Pregnancy Session - all students will receive our latest Inspirations Vol 2 set in preparation for afternoon photographing of the pregnant models. We will discuss my best selling pregnancy products, showing you actual client book samples as well as demonstration of creating pregnancy books. We will go over pricing for all products, packages, books, frames and more.
Lunch - Vendor Discussion - We will bring in a vendor to discuss latest products and what are best sellers.
Photographing the Models -Time to break up in teams and bring out your cameras. Our pregnant models will be in for the afternoon and we will work on wrapping, use our mamaThredz and show you how to work with our studio lights. We will finish with silhouettes. We will review the afternoons images in preparation for a slideshow on Saturday morning.
Saturday - September 27th - Time to rise and shine. We meet at 9am sharp to see a slideshow of your images from Friday. We will use ProSelect and projection to review your images, as well as enhance them and leave you with marketable images to use when you return home. We then review the newborn. We will discuss baby plans, storyboards - collages, the best products to market to newborns and more. Followed by a quick vendor lunch - giveaways - more new products and then ready for our newborn session, Our model will come in for the newborn session and we will get to work. After that, we will head to the beach for a sunset photo session with a pregnant model. We will end with dinner at a local diner at the beach to review images, get warm and discuss remaining Q&A.
To learn more about me - visit the following sites:
http://bstudioblog.typepad.com
Image above: Gerard Wiseman
May 18, 2008
Online Workshop Begins May 21st.
It's coming...our new online workshop series begins May 21s. If you want to join us, now is the time to signup. Go to www.b--studio.com/online. We will be showing video, providing live chats, having guest speakers and lessons to keep you learning. If you want to increase your pregnancy/newborn business, come and join us!
April 27, 2008
Online Workshops
Well after the many emails that we get from all over the world - Australia, Spain, Canada and others - we decided to launch our online workshops again. Not to be replaced with our studio worshops, in which we think personal interaction with each other and models is very important - these online workshops will help reach others arond the world. For those that are registered or are registering for our May and August workshops - they can attend our online workshop for free!
Our new online workshops will be unlike anything we have done before. We will be having guest speakers - live chats using Skype - and live videos to show you how to work with pregnant woman and newborns.
To find out the schedule - online classes start May 21st - join us at www.b--studio.com/online.
Hope to see you there!
March 26, 2008
Two Workshop Dates
It's back! The Art of Pregnancy and Newborn live is back for two dates.
The Art of Pregnancy and Newborn: LIVE
A HANDS ON 2 AND A HALF DAY WORKSHOP DEDICATED TO THE PREGNANCY AND NEWBORN IMAGERY
Current Available Dates:
May 15-17th, 2008
Aug 7-9th, 2008
Location: Our studio in Tustin, California
Price: $600.00
Sponsors: Albums Inc, Art Leather, Excel Picture Frames, Simply Splash is also giving away a Splash page and a Blog header!
Click the month below to view our student's sample images
(January)
Details: This workshop will be a two and a half day workshop. The Event begins on Thursday evening, with drinks and dinner and discussion of what is to come for the next two days. We will begin by discussing marketing and how to build /expand your pregnancy/newborn business.
Friday - The Day of the Pregnancy - We will begin the day by covering pricing, books, frames, collages and more. Everything after a pregnancy session. The second half of the day will be all shooting, so bring your gear. With live models, you will wrap and unwrap our pregnant models. You will twist and turn them, turn off a light or two and really learn how to work with woman of any shape. There will be at least two models. We will break up into teams and with Ana's guidance, all will have a chance to photograph the models.
Saturday -We will begin the day by having a slideshow and critique of the previous days images. Learn the art of cropping and working with your images to make them amazing. Then we are onto the Day of the Newborn. We will be discussing the baby plan and review Ana's actual client baby files and go over what is working in her plans. We will also discuss baby books and more pricing. How to add extra options, such as creative canvases, watercolor prints, announcements and more. We will then photograph a newborn baby. By the end of the weekend, we will make sure you are comfortable with pregnancy and newborns.
This course is for people (men and woman) of all ages and experiences. Remember - It's NOT What YOU Know - It's What I Know! We will also touch on networking with stores/ob offices/ultrasound studios and more. There will be challenges along the way as well as personal challenges. You will also receive: lots of goodies!
This is a workshop that I have put my heart and soul into! I will be limiting this workshop to only 10 photographers. I want to make this an intimate workshop in which everyone can have time photographing our models. In addition, to all my students, you will always have private mentoring available by me for as long as you need it.
So that's the deal!
Hope you see you there.
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SIGN ME UP!
REGISTRATION IS LIMITED TO TEN PHOTOGRAPHERS ONLY
May 15-17th, 2008
$600.00
Includes lunches for Friday and Saturday.
Upon signup you will receive an itinerary, as well as travel suggestions.
Aug 7-9th, 2008
$600.00
Our last workshops students were as follows:
Lorie Graupman
Liz Chalmers
Donna Ratham
February 15, 2008
February 10, 2008
Workshop Wrap Up
Well it was another wonderful retreat with 10 photographers this past month for our second workshop - based on my book - The Art of Pregnancy and Newborn. We were blessed with four models throughout the weekend and we are still going through all of the images. The 8 new photographers that came in from England, Pennsylvania, Texas and all other areas of the world, were amazing. I felt like I was on a first date with all of them. They were great, and I am sure you will be seeing their names somewhere in the world!
I am working on a slideshow of all of their images, but it will take some time - because we did lots of shooting! Here are some of my pics - I was able to snag a few during the weekend. Thanks to our wonderful models, who endured hours of being photographed!
Next up for now - is Texas in July. I will be speaking at the Children and Family Photographers of America conference.
Click here for details - http://www.cfpamerica.com/index-2.html
We have lots more in store for you. Our Spring line for Baby Thredz is being finalized as se speak, as well as new templates for your photography business.
Lastly, we are working on our forum, to make it bigger and better and our new eBook on marketing is being turned into a workbook... so Stay tuned!
January 02, 2008
November 18, 2007
Workshop Update
Well it was a whirlwind of a few days, but on recently I was able to spend some much needed quality time with 9 photographers from all over the U.S. for our first ever workshop - The Art of Pregnancy and Newborn: Live. We will be posting a slideshow of their 5 favs from the workshop soon. In the meantime, I thought I would post Teri Yover's testimonial and some of her favs. I presented the team with several challenges over the few days as well as a personal challenge. I am looking forward to following them all in the upcoming months to see how they are all doing. They were all so very talented and I am proud to have been in their company! And a note from Teri:
Ana’s workshop is the best workshop I have ever attended. One of the reasons I think it was the best was that it was small. There were only 9 women and we all received individual attention. I have been to other workshops that I learned a ton from but this one I actually got to experience everything. Ana worked with each one of us individually to find out were we were in our photography careers. She then took that information and made sure to address those needs.. There were many different skill levels at our workshop but no one was excluded. We worked with studio lights, pocket wizards, clothing choices for babies, pregnant women, families, and posing of all the above. She also touched on the emotional part of photography. How many times do you get to experience all of that in one workshop?
Ana is obviously very talented and wants the very best for her clients. She offers frames, albums, and custom made pieces. Some of these topics, such as framing were not included in the workshop but she was willing to go over anything anyone wanted. I asked about framing and she took the time to show us how to frame a piece. We could ask any question and she was very willing to share her knowledge.
The workshop ended in Tustin on Saturday evening but it was not really over. Ana has not forgotten one thing she has promised us. She gave each person an individualized challenge and she expects us to follow through and show her the assignment. She also gave us challenges as a group. I have been home for almost two weeks now and I am still working on the homework that Ana gave us. I came away energized and totally inspired.
If you are interested in pregnant women, babies, children or just studio work I would highly recommend this workshop.
Teri
Next workshop is in January 31st- come join us - space is limited!
