Mike Mastered His Craft

Mike was able to go down to Hartford, CT today for Mike Co

lón & Bob Davis's Master Your Craft National Tour. I was a little sad to have to stay home, but I was also a little too pregnant to really want to sit at a seminar for 8 hours...not to mention the three hours of trave

l in the car...oh, and we would have had to bring Emmie too since everyone who could possibly watch her was working today...ok, enough from me.

Here is the proof....that he really did get to go and spend the day with two photographers that are not only highly admired by the world at large, but also by MKD Photography in gene

ral!

The highlight of the day (excluding Mike and Bob) was getting to hold Mike Colón's D3 with a 200mm F2...

Can you tell he is a little bit excited to hold this piece of equipment? Nothing like $10,000 worth of camera to put a smile on your face!

It all makes so much more sense when you are holding an imaginary camera to your face! This was during the capture section of the seminar...they covered things like aperture, shooting in manual mode, auto-focus...setting and getting the right white balance. Bob was great shooting

images with Wi-Fi so that we could see exactly what he was talking about in real time. He also went over a lot of the different ways you can capture the best light while using a flash...my favorite part was about the RGB histograms...I always love it when I can come away from a seminar with a completely new to me concept that I can immediately put to use--so that you for that!

Here is Mike Colón showing off his camera...but also taking some pictures of Bob while he was covering "flash" all while playing with off-camera lighting. His topics were more on natural lighting and how best to capture it. The second half of the day was focused on marketing and business which is what we're really honing in on this year as we're looking to make the jump from doing this as an additional income to a primary way to make a living...we think it will make all of our brides a lot happier that we can invest that much more time in you...and it will make us happier because we will no longer be stretching the rubber band out in 3 different directions and can focus on what we love best--capturing your day as unobtrusively as possible while giving you and all of your future yous (kids, grandkids, great-grandkids) a complete picture of your wedding day!

Just another fun image of Bob doing a lighting sequence...

Overall a good day was had by all, not only did Mike get to listen to Bob and Mike talk about what they are most passionate about, he also came home with a pocket full of business cards from the new friends he made...now I'm off to check out their sites and add them to my Google Reader so I can keep up with them on my iGoogle!! Have a good night, folks!