Faye and I thoroughly enjoyed our 2 days as guest speakers from Venice Albums in London and Manchester. Despite the 3 flights and the early start on Monday, I never knew that 3.45am existed, we met some wonderful people at both venues and I even have my own small fan club in the North West it seems. As they are 3 girls I am thinking of calling them ‘Trevor’s Angels”

Thanks must go to Francesco and Bruno from VA and also to Steve from the Guild of Photographers who arranged the 2 events. One thing that did become clear to me was the need to take our many years of experience, the Power Point on the Business of Weddings, expand on it slightly more and produce a book that can be used as a reference for photographers. We did think about a DVD or video download but neither were attractive to us for several reasons the most important one was a book can be taken and read anywhere you do not need to be at a screen or online. Also a book can be referred to time and time again, I know you can replay a DVD or a download but somehow I feel that words written in black and white are more accessible and people react more positively to them. The other options require you to write down ideas or tips or remember them and that is not the object of what we want to do. We want to help photographers by making available our vast knowledge of the wedding industry built up over the years. The book will cover Business Strategy, Marketing, Branding and Promotion and much, much more. It will be illustrated with some of our work.  Publication date will be mid/end of August but will be in a better position by next week to announce dates and price.

Dates for our next series of workshops will be announced over the next few days. Lighting & Posing, Boudoir Academy, Marketing & Promotions and of course our last SHOOT IN THE CITY for 2011.

So if you would like to know how to light and make a portrait like this then our Lighting & Posing workshop is for you and with only 4 delegates per workshop you get plenty of one2one tuition. Early Bird discounts will apply for all places reserved before the 31st July.

We now only have 1 place available on our next Art Nude workshop which will take place here at Claremont – EH47 oJY on Sunday the 10th of July with one of our favourite art nude models. On location, ruined mansion, woods, stables etc. etc. For more details email trevor@yerburygallery.com

This image is another from Monday’s art nude workshop @ Muansel House

Those of you reading this post and who were @ Loxley’s on Monday will recall that later in the day, and to prove a point that you can produce a good portrait in an unassuming location on a very dull day, I press ganged 2 very surprised member of the audience to appear in front of my camera as the subjects. Both ladies, and please forgive me but I have forgotten your names, were reluctant as this was a complete surprise, not only to appear as models but in front of the other 38 delegates was quite a daunting prospect but both girls were wonderful and followed my guidance faultlessly. I only made about 6 exposures of each and these are my 2 selected images. I do hope the volunteers like the result? As with the previous images what little natural daylight we had on the day and Faye is holding a small reflector to camera left.

Another image from our Monday seminar @ Loxley Colour. In this image Faye has used one of her wigs on Jenny to  create a sharper more defined look. This works well on clients as it gives them a totally different look and occasionally they love the look so much they go and buy the wig and bring it back to Faye for her to cut into the style they liked. I posed Jenny at the same window space as I had done previously with Rebecca and Jilly is holding a reflector to camera left. A very simple shot making use of the small amount of natural daylight and then processed for a warm black and white finish. If you were at this seminar you will recall that I ‘persuaded’ 2 members of the audience to come to this window space where I created portraits of them both. These will be here on the blog later today.

Faye and I had a wonderful day yesterday as we were joined by a sell out audience of 40 delegate’s from all over the UK, Ireland and Spain. We were assisted by our PA, Jilly and our 2 wonderful models, Rebecca and Jenny. Remember these were created within the confines of the Loxley lecture theatre, some shot with simple daylight and some using the BOWENS beauty dish in front of a Bowens 500Gemini  head, and some with just our favourite BOWENS Fresnel lens.  This is first of several images that we will post over the next couple of days.

The mail-out from Loxley’s announcing this seminar was sent out this morning and already half of the 40 places have been taken so if you want to reserve a place then give us a call as soon as possible so you are not disappointed.

BOUDOIR WORKSHOP.  MANOR HOUSE, GUILDFORD  18th April 2011

We  have just one place left on this exciting workshop where we will be working with two beautiful models.

Contact trevor@yerburystudio.com

Yesterday, Sunday, we held one of our boutique workshops here at Claremont. A small group of photographers all wanting to advance their knowledge in lighting and posing techniques. In the morning we had Chloe and her younger brother Liam as our 2 models. We demonstrated how we used the various light modifiers in our small studio, soft box, beauty dish, gridded reflector and of course the Fresnel spotlight.  All lighting equipment provided by our favourite sponsors BOWENS. After one of Faye’s wonderful buffet lunches, with apple pie and cream, we had the pleasure of working with one of our favourite models, Fredau. I was not aware that when we first booked Fredau as a model over a year ago it was only her second job, she has come quite a way in such a very short time. We used several lighting techniques in the afternoon, including daylight and I have already places an image from that session on Facebook. I was so pleased with the daylight images that we had done with the group that after they had left we went back into the studio and spent 10 minutes creating some more images in the same style but slightly more evocative.  Faye will be posting some more images on her FB page and more will appear on here later this week. Don’t forget that we will be at FOCUS next week, appearing on the BOWENS stand on the Monday and Tuesday @ 11.30am and again on the SWPP stand in the afternoon. Stop by and say hello.