My second day in San Diego was Day One with Wendy and Tyler of Blue Lily. We started off the day learning about posing couples and families. We were rolling as Tyler told us how we can teach a man to sit.
And how to stand.
Just before sunset, we drove out to the beach to practice catching catchlights in each other's eyes before the model family arrived.
I always love the long piers found at beaches!
Wendy and Tyler photographed the family first, showing us how they typically run a photoshoot. Then they let us have a turn. As you can see, there were people in front of me. I'm not very good at telling strangers to move out of the way and let me take a turn, so I paid more attention to the lighting and positioning of people/cameras to learn what Wendy and Tyler were teaching us.
It was a fun first day. I had been very worried that I would be one of the least knowledgeable photographers in the workshop, as it was geared towards teaching amateurs how to make the jump to shooting professionally. This day was a major confidence booster in realizing just how much I had learned about my camera over the past year since I started shooting in manual mode.
After this shoot, we went out for dinner at the In n' Out burger restaurant. I tried to stay up and hang out with everyone back at the house after dinner, but I ended up slinking down to my room to go to bed before 8:30pm PST. Traveling across three time zones is tough!
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