Category: Photography Workshops

I just got back from teaching at a photographic convention in New Orleans.  The event was for After Dark, which is a 3-day conference for professional photographers.

Here are some of the images I created while I was working there.  This first set of images were while I was teaching fashion lighting…

After a couple images, I thought some motion and action would be fun and add some interest.Another photographer, my friend Lori, took this of me while I was photographing this pretty little baby girl. I love this!

And here’s one of the images I took of this little girl.

This is Skye, one of our official models.  Some street musicians were singing on the street, and I borrowed their mic for a quick image, taken on the streets of New Orleans.

During my off time, I continued to see images in my mind and had to get them.  I ended up borrowing a photographer friend of mine, Angelina, and used her as a model for some of these ideas.  These were some of the images I created of her.

I also took some time to walk down to a local cemetery.  All of the graves were above ground because of the water table, and it made a great place to explore and create some art images.

One of me at the cemetery which is fun, because I don’t usually get photographs of me when I travel.

A street portrait of some musicians on their way to a parade.  Photographed with a shift lens (the blur is optical and not Photoshop).

And here’s a street portrait of a preacher.  I really like the hat and how all the shapes come together.

And I even had fun taking images with my iPhone.  Some of us had a little game going on to see who could get the best iPhone image.  Here are a few of mine.

And to finish up, I love this last image.  I love the abstractness, the interaction!  It’s just a cool image of me and Angelina before I flew out of town.

Well thanks for looking, and if you’re a photographer, check out my website for professional photographers, BryCoxWORKSHOPS.com.  There you’ll see my schedule of upcoming workshops in your area.  And please email me if you’d like me to set up something in your area.

And for everyone else, thanks for looking and please browse my main website at BryCox.com (or my blog if you’re reading this in a separate feed reader BryCox.com/blog).

I was recently interviewed over the phone about my upcoming photographic teaching workshop at the US national convention (held this year in Nashville, TN) called ImagingUSA.  I actually spoke two years ago at ImagingUSA when it was in Florida, and that time I was a platform speaker.  This time I’ve been asked to teach a hands-on workshop called Speed Shooting With the Pros.  I will be demonstrating how to create fantastic and great photographs in various on-location environments, with very little equipment, while working very quickly.  It is perfect for wedding photographers or any portrait photographer who works on location and needs to create amazing and emotional photographs of people, and at the same time work within a confined environment.

This interview was done by a group called More Photos.  I’ve included a player here on my blog which should be able to play the interview in its entirety.  The entire interview is only about 5 minutes long.

Photographers wishing to attend need to register special for this class, as the number of attendees is capped.  More info is at the ImagingUSA website.

Here’s the interview:

Yes, as some of you know, I was asked to go back and speak to the photographers in China again!  My last visit a month or so ago was for speaking at an international convention, but this time it was a multi-city road show.  Me and Louis Tonsmeire, Jr (next years PPA President) would speak to a group of photographers for an entire day, then we’d take a taxi to the airport, fly to the next city and arrive at out hotel around midnight, get up and speak all day to a new group of photographers, take a taxi to the airport, and so on from city to city.

It was a very rigorous but exciting schedule.  One of my favorite photo shoots came in Beijing, where I had an absolutely stunning model named Surui.  Normally when groups line up a model for me order for me to do a live demonstration, it tends to be a pretty normal person.   I was very excited to have such a captivating girl as my model.

I had a very limited amount of time to photograph her, and didn’t have the best backgrounds to work with either, and had to really improvise with other areas of the room to create better backgrounds. I’m happy with how these turned out but would have loved to have had more time on this shoot.  😉

Because of the tight schedule, I didn’t get the chance to get out and photograph a lot for myself.  But Louis and I did take one morning to go walking and photographing people for about a half hour after breakfast.  I didn’t get a lot of what most people would consider as art prints, but I did get a lot of very interesting images because everything was so different than what we are used to here in America.

Keep in mind that we were in all of the biggest cities in China too, the smallest having 15 Million people and the largest having 36 Million people.  In comparison, my entire state of Utah has only 2.7 Million people.  So needless to say, these cities were very dense and very dirty.

I really like this old man framed by the public street toilet.  And this next image is very strange!  I found it very interesting all of the things that were just laying on the streets and in such interesting ways too.

And here is a little boy playing outside his house.  I really is interesting to see such vast extremes so close to each other in China.  In each city we stayed in absolutely top of the line hotels.  But literally just across the street would be pure poverty like I’ve never seen before.

This image to me really shows the contrast.  I framed it so that the old and impoverished woman is in the strongest part of the photograph.  Surrounding her on both sides are some young, beautiful mannequins and some fancy stores.  She is actually sitting in front of her home, the little door between the two stores.

The constant extremes were everywhere.

And here is a man working on the street, as most people do there.  He was a cobbler, and would fix and resole shoes.  You can see his sewing machine with a shoe hanging in it.  The little parts of people on the edges of the image are people waiting for their shoes.

There’s a lot more to tell you about China, but I’ll finish it in the next post.