I have just come back from the Dane Sanders Fast Track Photographers course this weekend. Dane is a US based portrait photographer and taught this amazing workshop (which is also his first in the UK). The workshop was very much about the business of photography but focusing on the photographer behind the camera, rather than the technical aspects of photography.

This is very different to many of the other courses out there and was a wake up call for many attending. It was a safe place to explore who we were as photographers by first examining who we are as individuals. Dane made the distinction and taught us to see that we are not just ‘mechanics’ who press the shutter button during a session, but we are much more than that. Our clients pay us for our vision, our service and the total experience the client gets. We are not merely producing a photograph (which anyone can do), for we offer something a lot more intimate and I guess a lot deeper. The images are memories that tell a story in a moment in our lives. It captures something more than ‘just a picture’ to look at that hangs on the wall.

It was a challenging yet empowering course and afterwards I have a much clearer focus and idea on the direction of my photography. It requires a lot of changes from my end as I will be focusing my efforts on portraiture work.

So, keep an eye out, things are about to change, and I believe change is good!

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