Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Saturday at the Art Weekend

{read more posts about my experiance going to the art weekend here, here, here, and here.}

Saturday morning I woke up, packed up, and left for the art weekend. I was so sad to be leaving Kristine's place. We hardly had any time together.

(Below are photos of Kristine's cute kitchen.)

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(Above is Nicole, teaching photo 101.)

At the Art Weekend, I took 4 classes. Photoshop 101, Photography 101, Digital Work flow for Photographers, and Tabletop Photography. (each class was 2 hours long)

I started shooting pictures with my first SLR when I was about 14. It was so good for me to learn on film. In Nicole's photo 101 class, she challenged us to go back to film for 6 MONTHS. It forces you to get each shot spot on. (since money is defiantly not on your side)

Most of the classes were more like a review for me except the Tabletop photography class. You can see a photo I took in that class,
here. Still life and food photography is very complex yet, I LOVE it!

All in all, the weekend was exactly what I needed. I feel more confident and excited about my photography. If you are at all interested in photography I suggest that you take a class or attend something like I did. It will teach you so much and excite you about it all.

6 comments:

Sarah Ruth Ritchie said...

Katelyn, I LOVE the new header!!! Very stinkin' cute! The photography class sounds amazing. That is so awesome that you were able to go.

Acacia said...

WOW! What a great learning weekend! Wish I had the time and money to do those. One day...

I first started shooting film when I was 7. It took a long time to let go of it - I continued to shoot with my film camera for almost a year after I got my DSLR. There are conviencenes you get with digital you don't get with film, but I feel like I'm actually creating art with my film. Aren't we blessed to have both technologies available to us now?!

The Boyle's said...

Wow. Looks like you had a ton of fun. I am jealous. i would love to get into photography one day. I love the header too. You and your man are super talented.

nicole hill gerulat said...

6 months!!! not weeks. ;)

glad you could make it!

Kristine said...

I am so glad you could go to this. Now I wish I would've/could've gone. And obviously I loved having you come here. Come again...I have gluten free cereal waiting :)

Fab Five said...

I wish I could go to something like this! It'd be a dream come true! But my mom and I aren't exactly on speaking terms right now so I doubt she'd pay for me to go. And there's no way Reese would let me go either! Maybe someday...