Back on the road again with workshops — kicking off the summer in San Juan, PR on May 18. Lighting, vision, philosophy. The whole thing.
Workshops in photography aren’t some new concept. They’ve been around for about as long as we’ve had the medium itself. But it’s a different world now, and the way photographers learn — and what they come to in-person workshops for — has shifted pretty dramatically. Most of us aren’t here trying to figure out how to use a camera for the first time. There’s a million YouTube videos on exposure triangles and shutter speed nuances and whatever else. And they’re great. Truly. You can sit on your couch and learn the basics of just about anything technical.
But what you can’t get from that screen is how someone thinks. Why they shoot that way. Why they light it like that. Why that expression, why that composition, why that subtle choice over this flashy one. That’s why people still come to real workshops, and that’s where my focus is.
I don’t teach “how to use your camera.” I think we’re past that, culturally. Instead, I offer something closer to a co-study — a sort of shared space where I walk you through how I think about light, form, tone, tension, timing. How I plan, how I improvise. Yes, we go over the tech. The lights, the modifiers, the settings — of course we do. But more than that, I try to open up how my brain processes a shoot from top to bottom.
So if you're looking for a class on what ISO is, this probably ain’t it. But if you want to step inside the perspective I’ve developed over the last 16+ years — to see not just how I shoot but why — then I think we’ll get along just fine.
San Juan is the beginning of another new chapter for these workshops, and I’m excited to keep evolving how I teach, just as much as how I shoot.
Let’s go, friends. #artisnotdead