One on One Photography Workshops

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I'll be presenting Next Monday, 20th May, 6.45pm for 7.00pm start, to support the Redlands Camera Club. It's just $3.00 😮👍

Come along and support their great club, you don't have to be a member

Details and address in the link.

Redlands Camera Club Redlands Uniting Churches Camera Club, Queensland, Australia

Four months after my double hip replacement, and five months after left elbow, wrist, palm, and fingers operations, and today, finally back shooting. That's 11 months since I was commissioned to shoot anything. Today it was shooting the extraordinary office suites, on level 33 of the amazing One One One building in Eagle Street, Brisbane CBD. Have to admit to being a bit tired, but happy to be behind the camera again 😀.

Working on a new series 2022. Designed to be printed big, so FB might kill off the detail. The original is 112 centimetres or 44 inches square. I'm interested to receive responses/reactions :)

2021/2022 One On One Photographic Workshops
All the information, description and pricing.

Mentoring, Inspiring, and Motivating

“Creating Camera Craft &/Or The Business of Photography”

Do you need to take better photographs in your line of work, or just want to surprise a loved one with a beautifully crafted shot taken by yourself?
Have you ever wished someone would teach you exactly what you need to learn - and show you new tips you didn’t know existed?
Do you want expert tuition without the fancy price and overheads?
Do you prefer personal attention to sitting in a class?
Are you seeking to elevate your professional expertise with an understanding mentor?
Then these workshops are for you – tailored specifically to your needs.

Your Camera Craft and Business of Photography workshop will be completely customised. Whether you’re a photography professional of many decades experience, student, absolute beginner or recreational photographer – you’ll learn new techniques or you're seeking help with the business of photography, that can be accomplished in a relaxed, comfortable and – most importantly – hands on environment
Using your equipment – and also demonstrated on professional equipment – you’ll enhance your expertise, “see the light” and learn ‘camera craft’ in a way that suits your personal learning style.

Your fully customised workshop will be a day where you’ll experience new ideas, new approaches, planned for your desired outcomes. Prior to your workshop experience I will have interviewed you, assessed your current folio, sought what you specifically need, in order to produce the best photographic workshop experience .

2021/22 Workshop Costs (all based in Brisbane)
If you can't attend in person, many workshops are taken via the phone, and computer using Zoom and/or Team Viewer.

One On One Workshops
Our fully customised Extraordinary One on One Workshops are amazing value.

You will be learning from one of Australia’s best professional photographers.

Choose from a half day, a full day, or two day mentoring session:

Folio/Awards/Work assessment – 2 hours -
topics of your choice $595

Choose from a half day, a full day, or two day mentoring session:

Folio/Awards/Work assessment – 2 hours -
topics of your choice $595

Half Day – 4 hours - topics of your choice – from $895

Full Day - 8 hours consecutive
topics of your choice – from $1695

2 Days – 2 x 8 hours consecutive
topics of your choice – from $2295

All prices are for single One on One individual sessions
(please call for multiple people Workshop prices)

Special Offer – On going sessions
Six full day Workshops for 5 – must be taken within 6 months
All prices are for single One on One individual sessions
(please call for multiple people Workshop prices)c

2021/22 One On One Photographic Workshops
All the information, description and pricing.

Mentoring, Inspiring, and Motivating

“CREATING CAMERA CRAFT” - ABOUT THE EXTRAORDINARY ONE ON ONE WORKSHOPS
Do you need to take better photographs in your line of work, or just want to surprise a loved one with a beautifully crafted shot taken by yourself?
Have you ever wished someone would teach you exactly what you need to learn - and show you new tips you didn’t know existed?
Do you want expert tuition without the fancy price and overheads?
Do you prefer personal attention to sitting in a class?
Are you seeking to elevate your professional expertise with an understanding mentor?
Then these workshops are for you – tailored specifically to your needs.

Your Camera Craft workshop will be completely customised. Whether you’re a photography professional of many decades experience, student, absolute beginner or recreational photographer – you’ll learn new techniques in a relaxed, comfortable and – most importantly – hands on environment.
Using your equipment – and also demonstrated on professional equipment – you’ll enhance your expertise, “see the light” and learn ‘camera craft’ in a way that suits your personal learning style.

Your fully customised workshop will be a day where you’ll experience new ideas, new approaches, planned for your desired outcomes. Prior to your workshop experience I will have interviewed you, assessed your current folio , in order to produce the best photographic workshop experience .

2021/22 Workshop Costs (all based in Brisbane)
If you can't attend in person, some workshops are taken via the phone, and computer using Team Viewer programme

One On One Workshops
Our fully customised Extraordinary One on One Workshops are amazing value.

You will be learning from one of Australia’s best professional photographers.

Choose from a half day, a full day, or two day mentoring session:

Folio/Awards/Work assessment – 2 hours -
topics of your choice $595

Half Day – 4 hours - topics of your choice – from $795
Full Day - 8 hours consecutive
topics of your choice – from $1695
2 Days – 2 x 8 hours consecutive
topics of your choice – from $2295
All prices are for single One on One individual sessions
(please call for multiple people Workshop prices)

Special Offer – On going sessions
Six full day Workshops for 5 – must be taken within 6 months
All prices are for single One on One individual sessions
(please call for multiple people Workshop prices)

In this time of Zoom conferences, Team Viewer, remote screen sharing, etc, now is a great time to book your One on One Workshops with me 👍

Canterbury Cathedral Ceiling. October 2019. Nikon Z7 & 14-30mm lens. F20@ 0.5 sec Shutter speed, Tripod mounted. Single exposure. Cropped from full frame.

One on one post production Workshops available now 👍

Cardiff Castle, Wales, UK. The Arab Room. Shot with a Nikon Z7, 14-30mm lens (@ 14mm), 20 secs @ F16. Single Capture.

I probably need to stress that this is NOT a composite, or an abstract, but a single capture/photograph of the amazing ceiling.

I wrote this for another group, but as it turned into a mini novel I thought it would be worth sharing it here too.



I've been a judge on many photo competitions and I am the PhotoWatchDog, a service that no one has ever tried to supply (one that lobbies photo competitions to produce fair competitions for entrants and to give away freely my time and energy to photo competition organisers providing them with fair terms and conditions)

OK lets get one thing straight. Photography is subjective. Even the most experienced and creative photographers will disagree on how an image is scored, or judged. Competitions rely on judges, and if you, the entrant think that when your images aren't received as well as you, your friends, your mentors think you should have scored, been awarded, then attacking the system or the judges in general is in my view unacceptable.

I've been a great advocate of putting some form of defence system within the terms and conditions to protect judges.
Is it that necessary ? After 24 years of judging anything from APPA, and AIPP state awards, to Luminous Awards, Creative Asia Awards, Epson Pano Awards and the Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize; I've received a fair amount of thanks but an inordinate amount of negative/hostile feedback. On several occasions that feedback has transgressed from slightly hostile to actual death threats, where the police have been called into knock on the door of the upset interstate entrant.

Like many I'm asked to contribute my time because of my experience within the industry.

I've also been a state chair of jurors and national deputy chair of jurors, which relies on selecting judges and putting together teams of people with varying degrees of experience, balancing gender, and opposing and wide range of views.

Recently I put my own images into National APPA's after I'd entered them at State, they didnt do as well as I'd hope, but I probably had unrealistic goals and expectations. Yes I complained to some of my nearest and dearest, but after a couple of days, I had to remind myself of what I tell everyone else; judging an image is not a mathematical equation. It's not something you can rely on it being judged the same from one panel to the other. There is no system in the world that can do that.

So when you enter a competition, you accept the outcome of the judging - it says that in all the terms and conditions of entry. And these days it also says that you shouldnt go on to social media and bag the judging out. We've all done it at some point, myself included. But here's why we shouldn't do it, and that is because it relies on people to judge it.

If we slam the judging (after it has followed an acceptable and described process prior to entry), then more and more people who accept, (normally at their own cost) to judge a competition, will begin to decline those invitations.

I assure you that it is happening. I am deeply concerned that more and more people are saying no thanks to judging because of social media posts. I won't call them attacks, because I'm sure that many of you here wouldn't think that they are, but when you've been part of a judging panel and then the social media world lights up because Fred has a much better picture (but didn't enter it - not to self, you can't win it if you're not in it), or Felicity didn't get the score she was assured from her friends that she deserved, that feels like an attack.

Sit down all day for four to five days, judging images approximately one every minute, for ten hours a day, with a short time off every 45-60 minutes. Not every one of your calls is going to be correct. If your image is judged after a series of uninspiring images, then you have a luck on your side. If your image follows a series of amazing images that all score golds, then yours just might be dismissed fairly quickly. The good news is that most systems rely on many different arrangements of multiple judges.

And that's when the "feedback" comes into play. Now this is a very personal view, but after a print has been judged with a score is the absolute worst time to gain feedback. It's when the olympic ice dancer couple have completed their dance, it's subjectively viewed and scored by a panel of judges. Some judges see the best part and score if highly and some see the faults and score it low. Their score is announced. Hoorah or tears. Then a judge is selected that is sitting somewhere in the middle, ie they were not decisive, they played safe, and they're the ones who are asked to add a comment. Why? Who is interested in their view I'd ask. I want to hear from the judges who saw the faults, or ask why it didnt appeal to them. But the horse has bolted, they've gone, they're no longer there. Comments and feedback is required prior to entering these things. Ice Dancers like almost anyone have coaches or trainers.

My past career was as a Principal Ballet Dancer with a leading company that performed all over the world. Applause at the end of the show was one way of knowing that you'd done a good job. If there was none, then you would hear a deafening silence. If it was the last chance to perform that role, I would received zero feedback from my Artistic Director, Ballet Master, Coaches, Trainers or Partners, there was no point! Their job was to coach, mentor me, extract the best out of me. If you're entering competitions for feedback you're doing it for the wrong thing and you're approaching it from the wrong way. Get that feedback before you enter.

Yes I cant argue with how many people want feedback from judging, but just because a lot of people who don't know how a system works asks for something doesn't mean that it's the right thing to do. Personally I try and educate as many as I can about how to go about entering into competitions

I've coached many photographers for both their work and entering competitions and I've explained to them things that are important -
READ THE RULES,
READ THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS,
READ THE BRIEF or CATEGORY DESCRIPTION

I've mentored totally new photographers to very very experienced, and also taking that range, I've mentored or coached in one on one situations and those people have as first time entrants not just scored highly but taken out the main titles.

And very importantly, understand how the image will be judged; what the lighting conditions will be or will it be judged digitally, on calibrated high end monitors (so if you're viewing yours on a cheap monitor or on an calibrated screen).

There is a wealth of new competitions on the market and most are run on a commercial basis, they almost have to be. There are very few that are not. But most still rely on a large amount of volunteers. So what some will see as "such a small thing", others, including me see that as a fairly large issue. And I'm as welcome to that honest view as the original author is of those words. BTW, I'm not a n**i and by disagreeing with you, I'm being as honest as I would be face to face. ( What I won't ever do is use the term N**i, that is without debate highly offensive, and I would ask that people please decline from using it)

That's my view based as an entrant, as a judge and as a photographer who chooses to shoot to push myself regardless of how long I've been doing it for.

How should I charge for commercial photography? A question often asked. I responded today to a photographer asking a related question.

I've included this analogy in some of my presentations.

How do I charge ?

I get the job done. With the aim to exceed my clients expectations. How long I'm there for is essentially not relevant.

I learnt a lot about charging after an epiphany experience when I was renovating my house.

I commissioned one contractor who charged by the hour - results were that the job took a long time and it was poor work.

A second contractor ( a plumber) was asked to quote. Supply and refit a mixer tap in the main kitchen. $250 (that's 15 years ago). Average price for a decent mixer tap was $100. He did the job in 10 mins from arrival to taking out all the contents under the sink cupboard, changing the tap, and replacing all the contents. Perfect job, very professional. Never had an issue with it for a further 10 years. Did I pay for ten minutes work, or did I pay to get the job done and exceed my expectations ( I expected to clear up after the "mess") ?

The job was done. It was based on his hourly rate, and the time to get the tap, be prepared with the right tools to complete the job took not just planning but experience.

That's how I quote. Based on my preparation, time, experience and worth.

The sooner commercial photographers step away from justifying per minute on site, the better off they will be 😉

Would you be interested in a photography mentor on call that can support you, answer your questions, provide sound and proven business advice, provide creative photographic tutoring ?

I've been trialling an idea with a few people which is different to my usual One on One Day Workshops.

It works like this. That I don't have to meet you in person ( many of my One on Ones are remote as I mentor people all over Australia and abroad) and we chat over the phone and go through your work online. It's like having a business and photographic mentor on call, with a maximum amount of time per month of say two hours overall. ( so far I've never had anyone go over that time, or felt that I should say when someone has )

The cost we've been trialling is $95 per month. There would be a min of 6 months contract

I will also be launching a closed fb group where people can share their concerns and help each other as well as get great advice from me. I will be checking that group on a daily basis. So far I have yet to launch that group as it's just a concept at the moment. Once we have enough people interested then I'll launch that group

So in short its photo manager/mentor on call with a monthly subscription.

As this is a concept in progress, we're working on it to include any subscriber being eligible for substantial discounts on any One on One Workshop normal pricing

Would that interest you ?

Don't Miss This - I'm currently in Yeppoon for the next week, and I have a very special offer for anyone interested in One on One Photographic Workshops.

Thanks to the support of PHOTO INK PROFESSIONAL I am available to offer for the next week only - week beginning 28th August 2017 -my One on One Full Day Photographic Workshops at $ 995 instead of $1595 per day or half day at $695 instead of $795 - in Yeppoon.

My workshops are just you and me. One on One. About what YOU need help, support, advice and assistance with.

Contact me ASAP - first in best dressed - 0418 980 021

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2013 AIPP Australian Professional Commercial Photographer of the Year | Brisbane Photographer