Kevin Kubota Photography Boot Camp|Oregon

In May, I was fortunate enough to attend  Kevin Kubota’s Boot Camp in Sister’s Oregon.  It was a  5 day intense workshop on photography held at the Five Pine Lodge in Sisters, Oregon. We started early and ended late and it was an amazing experience!  At times, I felt that my head was going to explode with all of the information we were given regarding, photography, lighting, Light Room, Photoshop, posing and setting up and organizing a photography business.  I was pushed creatively as well as technically!  There were 20 or so other photographers from all over the U.S. and Canada and by the end of the week, we had become quite a close group!

Kevin was a wealth of information and I can barely lift the notebook of information that he sent home with us.   Two other photographers were also available to  inspire and educate us!

Craig Strong, the inspiration behind Lens Baby, shared much information about his own photography journey.  We had the opportunity to play with and experience Lens Baby’s and most of us now have new lenses in our bag of tricks.  I am loving mine and will share images in the future. I encourage you to take a look at these, I promise that they will open up a whole new world of photography creativity!  Oh yes, and I might add, Craig is from Portland, Oregon!  We do have such talented people in Oregon…..LOL

Vicki Taufer and Jed Taufer of  V Gallery spent the week with us as well.  This was a very special bonus for me, as Vicki has very successfully incorporated pet photography  into V Gallery.  I learned much from her and am hoping to start implementing it into my own pet photography business…..stay tuned!  Her husband Jed was frequently surrounded by groups of campers learning various techniques in photoshop.  My favorite was taking three images and incorporating them into one…..I have tried this in the past, but I know have several new secrets up my sleeve!

There were also several awesome people from Kevin’s staff, ready at the raising of a hand to rescue us when we got stuck or confused!   The food was fabulous,  Happy Hour was greatly appreciated, and the accommodations were perfect!  We even had a fun game to play all week.  It is called the Lying Down Game!  It was a great stress release as well as a fun and creative challenge!  You have to do something crazy at camp….don’t you???  I unfortunately  did not take any of the Lying Down images, but did participate!  The rules are simple….take an image of the person lying face down with arms at their side……The fun part is to find creative places to do this!

We also had opportunities to photograph models at Camp.  Shooting in a large group always creates a challenge, but I was pleased with what I captured!

In case you are wondering about the photograph at the top of the page………..prior to photographing our models, I happend to catch  Kevin polishing his gorgeous red Mustang, which we later used as a major prop in our images!  I must explain the gnome in his front seat though!  We were all told in advance that we would be submitting images for  a slide show on the last day. Some of our group members came up with the fun idea to all insert this gnome into one or two of our slides as a joke for Kevin…..thus the driving gnome!  LOL!!!

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