Today the seminar schedule is similar to yesterday.
We are/there is:
left to our own devices for the “dawn” shoot.
left to our own devices for breakfast.
an “artistic” presentation for an hour.
a 15 minute break.
a “technical” presentation for an hour.
left to our own devices for lunch for 90 minutes.
another artistic presentation for an hour.
a 15 minute break.
another “technical” presentation for an hour.
left to our own devices for an evening shoot.
left to our own devices for dinner
a 90 minute image development workshop with access to the presenters.
The seminar is organised and partially presented by Alain Briot who despite living in the U.S. for some 20 years or more is still very much a Frenchman and conducts the seminar at a very leisurely European pace. His American wife however, who organises all the logistics, is one of the most uptight people on the planet!
It is a very difficult format to feel you are getting your monies worth. There is lots of time where you can do “your own thing” but there is very little field organisation with regard to photography. Because there are attendees from all over the world as well as Americans from what feels like every state there is an incredible clash of cultures and it turns out that you have to be a very squeaky wheel to get any attention. It’s not really our style.
Despite this we manage to get some good technical information.
For the evening shoot we drive to the end of the valley and walk the Narrows trail ... there has to be 100 photographers out here. I don’t think I’ve seen a single person without a camera. There are several seminars running out here and it’s hard to take a picture without another photographer in it or avoid being in someone else’s photo. It’s incredible the range of attitudes with regard to consideration that you run into.
We don’t have all that long so we only manage a few shots
I am sure that mine will provide a serious challenge to the presenters with regard to fixing them ...
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