Here is my third and final post of a series on Me Ra Koh‘s Discovery Workshop. If you want to catch up, you can read Part One and Part Two.
Day One left me rather raw, but determined. Day Two saw me deflated. Day Three was a turning point.
We met again at scenic Cavallo Point, in the San Francisco Bay Area, CA. At the beginning of the day, we broke up into smaller groups to work on individual topics of our choice. I chose the flash bounce session and the marketing and branding session. Brian Tausend showed me the handy little flash exposure compensation button on top of my camera. Hey, where has this thing been all my life?? No…
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If you read Part One of this series of posts about Me Ra Koh‘s Discovery Workshop, then you know that Day One was huge on a personal level. It was rough. It lead me to know more about myself.
Day Two was just as rough and challenging. On this day, we delved into portrait-making with Rick Chapman. He spent some time talking about how he made some of his portraits in various projects, from his portraits of pro athletes to his images of the human form in decayed industrial settings to his personal work of his wife and family. He would ask his subjects to talk about the photo that they had always wanted taken of…
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It has been about 2 weeks since I came back from Me Ra Koh‘s Discovery Workshop. It took me this long to process what I learned there and then some more time to figure out how I was going to write about my experience in a way that would do it justice.
If I could sum up my experience of the workshop in a very succinct way, I would say that I felt uncomfortable and challenged, yet welcomed.
The experience was like getting squeezed and churned through a meat grinder and then spit back out. At the other end of the grinder, I came out resembling myself, but changed. On more than one occasion, I wondered if I and the 21 other women…
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