{"id":690,"date":"2010-04-13T20:22:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-14T00:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amysalerno.com\/blog\/?p=690"},"modified":"2010-04-13T20:24:15","modified_gmt":"2010-04-14T00:24:15","slug":"model-shoot-with-david-beckstead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amysalerno.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/13\/model-shoot-with-david-beckstead\/","title":{"rendered":"Model Shoot with David Beckstead"},"content":{"rendered":"

Worried that the start of wedding season was fast approaching and that I might be stuck in a creative rut, I signed up for a workshop with the uber-talented David Beckstead<\/a>.\u00a0 He’s well-known throughout the industry as a dynamic and unique photographer.\u00a0 His Shoot with Beckstead<\/a> workshops are usually three day events, but his one day stop in Maine was sponsored by the Maine Professional Photographers Association (MPPA<\/a>).\u00a0 Not only did I get a seat at the workshop, but I also received membership to the MPPA.\u00a0 Sweet deal.<\/p>\n

It was cold and rainy the day of the shoot.\u00a0 Definitely not ideal conditions for a model shoot.\u00a0 We gathered early Friday morning at Russel Caron<\/a>‘s place in Falmouth, unsure of what to expect from David and from each other.\u00a0 The room was filled to capacity — thirty photographers and I only knew two — but thankfully the coffee was caffeinated and hot.\u00a0 David launched a slideshow with a driving techno sound track.\u00a0 We all watched, toes tapping and eyes wide, amazed by the striking compositions and posing.\u00a0 The lesson of the day was about going beyond our “safe zone.”\u00a0 That’s the place where we know how to get the shot that everyone will like, that the bride and groom will frame.\u00a0 The goal was to create powerful images by paying attention to composition and not just emotion.\u00a0 To say the anticipation for the hands-on part was growing would be an understatement.<\/p>\n

Because of the wet weather, we found ourselves shooting at Fort Andross in Brunswick, ME.\u00a0 We lunched at Frontier Cafe<\/a> and then got to work.\u00a0 David would set up a shot, explain his reason for it, click off a few frames and we would all crowd around his camera to see what he saw.\u00a0 To see the world through David Beckstead’s eyes…\u00a0 wow.\u00a0 Because of the weather and large group, it was a bit of a grueling shoot that went on until almost\u00a0 7 PM when we all started dropping like flies.\u00a0 Credit to the models for never losing steam and for holding their poses for what must have seemed like an eternity while the thirty of us tried to get the shot.\u00a0 I believe David would have continued to find ways to shoot in that space for hours had we all been up for it.\u00a0 The guy never stops.<\/p>\n

Thanks go out to David for coming up to Maine and sharing his talent, skill, and endless enthusiasm with us.\u00a0 Big shout out to Russ Caron for hosting us all at his awesome studio.\u00a0 I had a lot of fun meeting everyone and stretching my limits with you all!<\/p>\n

Below are some of my images from the day.\u00a0 Check out this slideshow<\/a> to see more.<\/p>\n

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Worried that the start of wedding season was fast approaching and that I might be stuck in a creative rut, I signed up for a workshop with the uber-talented David Beckstead.\u00a0 He’s well-known throughout the industry as a dynamic and unique photographer.\u00a0 His Shoot with Beckstead workshops are usually three day events, but his one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[45,13,49],"class_list":["post-690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-maine-weddings","tag-maine-model-shoot","tag-maine-wedding-photography","tag-shoot-with-beckstead"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amysalerno.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amysalerno.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amysalerno.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amysalerno.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amysalerno.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=690"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.amysalerno.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":710,"href":"https:\/\/www.amysalerno.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690\/revisions\/710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amysalerno.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amysalerno.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amysalerno.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}