Documentary Wedding and Lifestyle Portrait Photography - Seattle Tacoma Olympia Portland » Education http://www.billcawley.com/Wordpress Tue, 22 Jul 2008 23:30:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 en Business Bootcamp - Seattle http://www.billcawley.com/Wordpress/2008/01/31/business-bootcamp-seattle/ http://www.billcawley.com/Wordpress/2008/01/31/business-bootcamp-seattle/#comments Thu, 31 Jan 2008 17:56:13 +0000 BillCawley http://www.billcawley.com/Wordpress/2008/01/31/business-bootcamp-seattle/ Erin and I spent the last 3 days in class learning all about the business of photography from Liana Lehman. Liana is certified by the PPA (Professional Photographers of America) to teach accounting and business skills to photographers… not an easy task, teaching business skills to artists is something akin to herding cats into an orderly formation… We spent 22 hours in class in two days and I found myself constantly thinking “Can’t we just go take some pictures now?”

So yesterday, on day 3, as a reward, we did just that. Here are few quick images of our new friends: classmates, teacher, and the resident dog Kiesha…

Liana Lehman - BBC instructor

Liana glances up from her computer…

BBC Seattle group picture - looking over Liana’s shoulder

The whole group looking over Liana’s shoulder as she edits some images and shows off her famously simple workflow. :-)

Kristin smiling - close up fun headshot

Kristin smiling as I sneak a headshot with the long lens.

Taking pictures of the group participants

We all took turns getting headshots taken by Liana. Erin and I got ours done together too, I can’t wait to see those and post them in the bio section!

capturing the moments around us

A crazy scene with a bunch of cooped up photographers shooting each other… ;-)

Julie is so fun and expressive - a joy to be around :)

Erin and I both hit it off with Julie Watts, she’s able to talk motherhood with Erin and old cars with me (we both own quirky Porsches).  I got a bunch of good pictures of her, she’s expressive and fun so it was easy… ;-)

Pictures always tell a story, sometimes they lieJulie taking a picture of the groupa well lit headshota three quarter length portrait with nice window lightlaughing spontaniously

On Tuesday night the whole group went out to dinner at Jai Thai in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Seattle. We had a blast…

Allison having a drink and smilingErin giving me the ‘don’t point that thing at me’ look.Great food and new friends :-)Wine and good fooddeep fried spring rolls and sweet and sour saucepeaking over the menuTracy in black and white

Just a few more of the group, I wish we’d had better weather and more time so we could have gone outside and done some more, but it was cold/rainy and several people had to leave quickly to go to the airport and/or beat the traffic home. Erin and I decided to spend the rest of the afternoon in Seattle shopping and hanging out, so we didn’t beat the traffic, but that’s OK. ;-)

Allison watching Liana workDinea close up with the wide lensvertical headshot of Kristin smiling

And last but not least, Kiesha, the dog that made sure we all stayed awake by running around the house and barking loudly at random intervals… ;-)

Kiesha the dog showing me her belly

I’m so glad we both went, it was money and time well spent… ;-)

~Bill

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