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Inside the Green Room
In this week’s episode of The Photo Life, Pictage chats with me about the challenges and rewards of building a community in a competitive industry as well as how I manage to balance a life devoted to family, work and personal reflection.
Thank you to all my supporters. Family, friends and associates.
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Lighting for Success: Use Light to Your Advantage
With: Mike Adrian
Info: Feb 12 • Sat • 9:00am-4:00pm • 1 mtg • UHM Krauss 012 (Yukiyoshi Room) • $120
Event ID: L11336
Explore how light works and how to use it creatively to your advantage while on location.
Learn how to control the light by incorporating soft boxes, snoots, reflectors, and bounce techniques, for more professional results. Explore which lighting techniques are best suited to a particular subject and setting. Proper gear and packing techniques for location assignments are also covered.
The morning is dedicated to lectures, demonstrations, and sample ideas; the remainder of the day is spent practicing lighting techniques on location. Participants leave this workshop with confidence in their new lighting skills and the capacity to develop their own lighting techniques and style.
Mike Adrian works with clients to capture their best moments on the wedding day. His work has been featured in national wedding publications, and he has worked and taught alongside some of the industries most talented wedding photographers. Adrian is based in Maui.
Click on the link to register. Limited availability.
http://outreach.hawaii.edu/noncredit/courses/programdetail.aspx?eventsid=1165
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I am getting excited for PartnerCon 2010, November 9-11th in New Orleans, it is literally, just around the corner! PartnerCon was my first photography conference I attended, It was a place where I ventured out of my comfort zone and was happily embraced by the photography community.
In the spirit of community and empowering photographers through education, my good friends at Pictage have generously offered to sponsor one free seat at my photography workshop titled, "shooting for success:: 5 Tips To Put You on Top" in New Orleans on November 11th from 1:00pm-7:00pm at the W Hotel. This workshop will be a turning point for photographers who want to put their businesses on the fast track to success. I look forward to seeing you all in New Orleans soon!
How To Enter?
It's easy. Just submit a comment below in 100 words or less, "Why your business could use this awesome workshop". The submission that best speaks to us will be the chosen winner. Don't forget to enter your business website so we can contact you if you win!
When Is The Deadline?
The deadline to enter is November 7th at Midnight Pacific Standard Time. (That's just a few days away!)
How Will I Know If You Have Won?
We will announce the winner on Monday, November 8th by 5:00pm Pacific Standard Time right here on the blog.
***This contest prize does not include airfare, transporations or hotel accommodations, and may not be exchanged or transfered. This prize has no cash value. The winner of this contest is entitled to one seat at Mike Adrian's November 11th Workshop titled, '5 Tips to put you on Top' in New Orleans.
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Shooting for Success -5 Tips to Put You on Top-
This workshop will cover 5 important photography business topics including:
Controlling your camera
Understanding light
Better business practices
Bigger vision forecasting
Marketing for the right clients
This workshop is for:
All photographers who want to learn proven business practices to build a successful photography business.
Your workshop fee includes:
6 hours business coaching and training with Mike Adrian in a small and supportive environment
Live photo shoot at the W hotel French Quarter
Lunch
Things to bring:
Camera, 1 lens, Pen, Notebook and an open mind - Each photographer will have the opportunity to create images for their personal portfolios
Date:
November 11, 2010
Time:
1:00p.m.-7:00p.m.
Workshop Location:
*Private Suite
W French Quarter
316 Chartres Street
New Orleans, LA 70130
*Final details and information will be emailed to attendees before the event.
Spaces Available:
7
Tuition:
$525.00
Terms:
A non-refundable fee for this workshop will be billed to your credit card by EventBrite. Please double check you calender and dates to make sure there are no conflicts with thisworkshop.
Once you space is billed, no refunds, or exchanges will be allowed.
Sponsors:
Pictage, ShootDotEdit, and ShootQ
Book Your Seat:
About Mike Adrian:
Mike Adrian is a Destination Wedding Photographer based in Maui, Hawaii. Mike has created success in his business by focusing on the one thing that matters most, his clients. Mike regularly travels throughout Hawaii, California, Mexico, and Canada to capture real, genuine, emotion based images for his clients. Mike teaches photography for the University of Hawaii, Manoa, and along side some of the top wedding photographers in the world. Mike's warm, supportive personality, allow him to connect with others in a genuine and relaxed way.
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Here is a quick video from our recent interview at WPPI 2010. We got to spend some time with Emily Engle Pictage Community Leader, to discuss working with the right clients and setting up your business to reflect your life's priorities.
A special thanks to some awesome companies who helped me make WPPI such a huge success for our business. Pictage, ShootDotEdit, livebooks, Kissbooks.
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Well, the New Year is upon us and the year is looking very bright. 2009 ended up being a challenging year for a lot of photography studios, I think many felt the weight of the sluggish economy and the nominal growth has slowed down the creative fires for many. But with a new year comes new potential, and what a better way to start the year than by investing in your business and fueling up those creative fires.
To help usher in the theme of growth, I will be teaching, and hosting some amazing workshops in 2010.
The first workshop of the year will be with Mike Colon and his 7 Workshop. Mike is a good friend and very talented photographer who has been a leader in the wedding industry for the last decade. I have personally attended Mike's workshops in the past and can say that they were a turning point in my carrer.
Mike's workshop will be offered in Oahu on January 25th, and in Maui on January 28th. You can get Oahu workshop info here, and Maui info here. See you there!
Mike Colon's Advanced Workshop in Maui 2008 Photo by:: Corey Ann
The next workshop on the calender will be the Mike Adrian LightRoom WorkFlow class. This class will be held on Tuesday February 16th in Maui. I will be teaching a complete LightRoom workflow from import to export of final product. This is a must for all levels of photographers looking at understanding LightRoom, and simplifying your workflow. You can get workshop info and book your seat here.
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After talking with so many photographers over the past few weeks, the most time consuming area for many studios is the post production workflow. As Lightroom has become the default image editing software for most Wedding and Portrait photography studios, many photographers find themselves stuck behind the desk editing their life away.
It's time to get your life back! Mike Adrian Workshops is re-releasing the step by step guide to getting your life back! This one day workshop will guide you through a simple LR workflow from import to presentation. Space is limited to 8 photographers to ensure maximum personal attention.
For booking requests please email workshops@mikeadrian.com or contact the studio at 866.271.7466.
Update 12.29.09----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The date of this workshop has been changed to February 16th, 2010 due to a scheduling conflict. Please recheck your calendars to check availability.
Note:: Please make sure you have checked your calender, once booked the event is non refundable.
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The last Week has been nothing but a fun blur of photographers, questions, inspiration, and growth. It started with my own Mike Adrian Photography Workshop in Honolulu. I had a sold out workshop of 25 ready to be inspired photographers. The main focus of the workshop was to teach photographers how to shoot full manual in camera, to create a more simple post production workflow back in the studio. From the photographers comments & feed back the workshop was a success!
After the workshop I hoped on plane back to Maui, where my good friend Dane Sanders was the speaker at our Maui Pictage User Group's monthly meeting. The turnout was great and Dane really inspired all the photographers with a great lecture and talk. Then is was off to South Maui where I hosted Dane's 2 day Fasttrack workshop. If you have ever seen Dane do a presentation or speaking engagement, he is very captivating and really focuses his attention on getting to know the real photographer inside you.
Overall I had a great time getting to meet so many new photographers, and see how inspired they were to grow their businesses to the next level.
Look forward to some more great photography workshops coming to Hawaii in 2010.
Here are a few photos from the workshops.
Mike Adrian Workshop photos by Jana Morgan
When was the last time you laid down in the grass to "get the shot". In my world...daily! Glad to see other photographers getting in on the fun!
This is our Maui Fasttrack group, and yes those are cupcakes in the faces of our neighbors, if you are going to do something commit fully, like sharing your cupcake with your neighbor.
Mark Adams blocking those harmful UV SunRays Maui style!
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