{"id":2075,"date":"2011-09-09T04:54:17","date_gmt":"2011-09-09T04:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wonderland-photography.com\/blog\/?p=2075"},"modified":"2011-09-09T07:50:14","modified_gmt":"2011-09-09T07:50:14","slug":"capture-your-kid-photography-workshop-for-parents-%e2%80%a2-august-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wonderland-photography.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/09\/capture-your-kid-photography-workshop-for-parents-%e2%80%a2-august-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"capture your kid! photography workshop for parents \u2022 august 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had a blast teaching my first ever “Capture Your Kid! Photography Workshop for Parents” this August! I put this workshop together as a response to the frequent conversations I’ve had with moms & dads that tell me, “We got a fancy camera to take pictures of the kids, & I wish I knew how to use it!” I really wanted to help parents learn some techniques & gain the creative confidence to be able to make visually interesting, aesthetically pleasing photographs that would really capture their children’s essence–& tell the story of their family. I know that parents want to make more than “snapshots” if they are shelling out the big bucks to buy a DSLR or even an advanced point-&-shoot (which are very sophisticated & can cost as much as a DSLR these days).<\/p>\n

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I also know how much logistical maneuvering it requires for a parent to carve out an afternoon away from the family, so I really wanted to offer a course that would provide them with valuable tools & information, presented in a digestible format in a short amount of time. And I wanted it to be challenging & intellectually & artistically stimulating, because if you’re a parent, you don’t often get to stretch your brain in new, uncharted ways; our days are filled with lots of routine & manual labor & not a lot of time left for pondering art & science & anything beyond what to serve for the next meal. Hopefully, I was putting together a workshop that would be like a little vacation from the usual, from which parents could return to their family life with little nuggets of photographic ideas as souvenirs to share with their spouses & kids.<\/p>\n

I organized my workshop into five sections: Light, Composition, Bonding With Your Camera, Working With Kids, & Guided Shooting. I wanted to cover as much as I could\u00a0 with the basics–without doing so much that it was overwhelming. I crammed in about a semester’s worth of photo technique–as well as at least five year’s worth of anecdotal experience shooting kids & families. And there were some great “a-ha” moments as we talked about types of light, not always putting your subject in the center, & the key points of what to do if you want your kid to really smile (ya have to actually be fun & funny!<\/em>).<\/p>\n

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And how rewarding it has been to see everyone’s photographs from the guided shooting & from the days after the workshop! All the photos in this post are the lovely samples of “real parents” photographing their kids–armed with a few new tricks & some inspiration…More to come in another post!<\/p>\n

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I had a blast teaching my first ever “Capture Your Kid! Photography Workshop for Parents” this August! I put this workshop together as a response to the frequent conversations I’ve had with moms & dads that tell me, “We got a fancy camera to take pictures of the kids, & I wish I knew how…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6,3],"tags":[33,71,34,110,12,26,109,108,70],"class_list":["post-2075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-babies-children","category-family-session","category-workshops","tag-black-white","tag-capture-your-kid","tag-colour","tag-babies-children","tag-natural","tag-on-location","tag-outdoors","tag-family-session","tag-workshop"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wonderland-photography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wonderland-photography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wonderland-photography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wonderland-photography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wonderland-photography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2075"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.wonderland-photography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2098,"href":"https:\/\/www.wonderland-photography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2075\/revisions\/2098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wonderland-photography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wonderland-photography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wonderland-photography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}