The Click with Nick Photo Session started over lunch and then it was out into the real world to see what we could see—and it was a lot. (photo by Aaron Redman)
My friends at Forever are sending me on the road this year. I’ll be attending several weekend-long Forever Retreats around the country in 2016 and it may be a chance for us—that’s you and me—to meet face-to-face. (Forever, Inc., in case you don’t know, is the ultimate and safest way to store and sort your treasured photographs. Nobody does it better, in my opinion.)
Here are the dates and locations for two Forever Retreats that are fast approaching.
San Diego, CA March 11-13 Forever Retreat
Windsor, Ontario April 1-3 Forever Retreat / Canadian residents
Windsor, Ontario April 1-3 Forever Retreat / U.S. residents
And also the national Forever event this fall:
Nashville, TN September 22-25 Forever Live!
Several more 2016 dates and locations will be announced soon.
The kickoff Forever Retreat in Novi, Michigan in early January, 2016.
Forever is sponsoring open-to-the-public Click with Nick Photo Sessions at these retreats. My four-hour events are part of the weekend long Forever Retreats that will also interest many of you photographers and memory preservers, I’m sure.
Every Click with Nick Photo Session is different and spontaneous, but we initially do a quick review of manual settings (sound familiar?) and then it’s off into the real world to see what we can see—and there’s a lot. We talk about finding that all-important great light, portraiture, directing photo subjects, reflectors, using your ISO settings creatively, bounce flash and artificial lighting, white balance and the color of light, shooting raw, time of day, dealing with squirmy kids, when and when not to use a tripod, and maybe most importantly, learning how to take command your own camera.
Getting together with people like you at these sessions is a wonderful opportunity for me to stretch my teaching muscles. There’s just no substitute for sitting down one-on-one and helping you solve your photographic ailments. The doctor is in.
A couple of weeks ago the first Forever Retreat was launched in Novi, Michigan. I was just one of many speakers; I personally did presentations about making the most of your smart phone camera and photo editing and then I just hung out with and answered questions from the hard-working troops in the “crop room” as they collected, curated, and celebrated their memories with the latest Forever software.
If you can’t deal with having cameras pointed at you, you have no business teaching photography.
The “Crop Room” where folks camped out for the weekend and shared their enthusiasm for preserving and protecting their families memories.
It really does my heart good to watch people instantly grasp photo concepts in a way that they never could through a webinar or a blog post. It’s just different. I’ve found that if I sit down with someone for 10 or 15 minutes and we go over their camera and their camera settings it can permanently transform their relationship not just with their camera, but photography itself. (And critique their photos, of course.)
For those of you in these cities, it’s a great opportunity for you to recharge your photographic batteries—something that is key to photographic success.
The friendship, bonding, and learning at these sessions is palpable. It’s really a beautiful thing.
Whatever it takes to teach photographing action in low light, l always say—even if I have to wheel out that tired, decades old juggling act of mine. (photo by Aaron Redman)
