Fall in Love Workshop with Special Guest Speaker Sarah Rhoads! {March 31 + April 1}

January’s Fall in Love Workshop was a huge success! I had such an amazing experience teaching, inspiring and encouraging people in the pursuit of their passion and dreams. So much so that I can't wait to do it again!!!

After asking last workshop’s attendees what I could do to improve, most of them agreed that they would LOVE another day. So, we are throwing one more day at you for only $500 more! That means extra one-on-one time to help you learn what you need; whether it's shooting technique, marketing, interacting with couples, or profuse business skills.

The workshop will be held at the Flying Caballos Ranch in San Luis Obispo on March 31st and April 1st with a welcome party on the eve of the 30th! We are offering a 2 night stay on the ranch; March 30th + 31st.

Register here!

Here are a few topics we will be covering and teaching:
-Identifying your dream
-Finding your voice
-Branding + marketing
-Building a business to last
-Magazine + blog submissions
-Working with your spouse
-Shooting in RAW using natural light
-How to creatively collaborate and direct couples so that they don't look posed
-Live engagement photo shoot
-Post processing in Adobe Lightroom
-Image review + critique from photo shoot

I'm thrilled to have some amazingly talented friends guest speak at our next Fall in Love Workshop; Sarah + Chris Rhoads! This dynamic duo lives in Seattle and are not only awesome photographers, but are such awesome people. Sarah is setting a creative pace in the photography industry. She is inspiring hundreds of people by just operating in her gifts with a genuine and passionate heart. I seriously LOVE these guys and can't wait to have them come alongside me to inspire and teach some of you. Check them out!






Details:
-Welcome party Monday night March 30th
-2 Workshop Days: March 31st + April 1st
-Meals included
-Bring camera gear for engagement shoot
-$1,250 per person. Business partner rate: $2,000
-Spaces are limited to a small group (12 people or businesses)
-Up to 5 rooms available in Ranch House for a 2 night stay
-2 additional rooms available in separate house
-1 studio apartment available

So what are you waiting for? Register here!

There are options to add a business partner/spouse as well as the opportunity to stay on the Ranch. Staying there just adds amazingness to the experience. You will be inspired, relaxed and refreshed by the serene countryside and good company of almost a dozen other photographers!

I hope to meet some of you soon! Much love!

Check out the video from our last workshop:
Cameron Ingalls Photography: Fall in Love Workshop from Ben Potter & Drew Barefoot on Vimeo.

Jose Villa’s Film {Fall in Love Workshop}

I am constantly blown away by Jose Villa’s breathtaking images. It was an amazing experience having him join us at January’s Fall in Love Workshop. He demonstrated photographing a portrait session of my beautiful Anna and Asher right in the living room we used to lecture. Later during our engagement shoot he took the couple for about 20 minutes and shared his style of directing the couple in such a way that produces natural and stunningly beautiful images. Jose is a great friend and such an amazing teacher. We were so fortunate to have him as our guest speaker!

Fall in Love Workshop {January 30th San Luis Obispo}

I’m still floating a bit from the amazing time I had with everyone at the Fall in Love Workshop this past weekend! I’m humbled and honored that people would fly across the country and world to spend a couple of days allowing me to teach about my passion for wedding photography. It’s true that I could talk for days about what I do because I love it that much.

This wasn’t just a photography-nerd-shop. It was a retreat, it was a party, it was a vacation, it was a time of introspection, inspiration and redefinition.

We hosted the workshop in my hometown. I really wanted people to get immersed in the natural beauty and peacefulness of San Luis Obispo. People came from as far as Nevada, Colorado, North Dakota, Michigan, and even Italy! Flying Caballos Ranch was the perfect venue! It’s this amazing century old 5 bedroom Victorian ranch house in the middle of a grassy meadow. The moment we all stepped onto the property we felt like we had been transported to another time.

World Class wedding photographer Jose Villa joined us to teach and share. Having him was the icing on the cake! He is such an incredibly talented photographer and a phenomenal teacher. He demonstrated some in door portrait photography with Asher and Anna and then taught about how he directs couples during our engagement shoot.

Brynn and Daniel were kind enough to model for us and were amazing in front of the camera; all 14 of them! Seriously, a big thanks to them for being so full of energy and love. It’s a crazy thing to have that many people photograph you for over an hour, but they handled it like pros. We are all excited for your wedding and wish we could all be there. ;)

Loads of friends and sponsors came together to support the success of the workshop. My assistant Alex Creswell was an amazing help; we couldn’t have done it without her. Amanda lent us some of her hand made vintage inspired accessories from Untamed Petals. Sunnie Brook from Married on a Monday rocked the hair and make-up department stunningly as usual! Adornments supplied the lovely flowers and bouquet. Mama’s Meatball catered and kept us fed and happy with the communal flavors of Italy. Andrew Barefoot from Cana VP shot a rad little video which you have to see at the end of this post!

The students were thrilled to receive generous give aways from our sponsors. Thank you!
RedCart
Pro DPI
Renaissance Albums
Albums Inc.
Presetopia

I got an amazing response from one of the students just a couple days after the workshop. Amazing that this weekend was a life changing experience!

"What happened this weekend was something past inspiration for us. It was more like teleportation to a different planet that we loved. Thank you so much for putting yourself out there for us and for providing the conduit for the Lord to work so powerfully and in such a life changing way.”
-Lloyd Baggs

Jose demonstrating the beauty of shooting in window light.



Together we photographed a real engaged couple. A big part of what we shared was how to connect with couples and help them become comfortable in front of the camera and especially the photographer.










Watch this to get a glimpse into all of the fun!


Cameron Ingalls Photography: Fall in Love Workshop from Ben Potter & Drew Barefoot on Vimeo.

We are already planning our next workshop for April. We have another amazing surprise guest speaker! I should be announcing all of the details within the week. Email us to sign up on the waiting list! fallinlove@cameroningalls.com

Fall in Love… Workshop! with special guest speaker Jose Villa

I’m thrilled to announce my 2nd workshop for January 30, 2010 here in San Luis Obispo, CA!

I love watching people live their dreams; whatever they may be. I’m a big advocate for faith leaping. For leaving the mediocre and boring life behind. For risking all you’ve got to live the life you were meant to live. I guess it’s because I was once a dream filled young man who believed with trembling faith that I could maybe -just maybe live out the dream that God put in my heart to be a wedding photographer. Almost 7 years later looking back at all that I’ve accomplished, all the people I’ve met and fallen in love with, all of the weddings I’ve had the honor of photographing, it is safe to say that I have been living my dreams. And what an amazing adventure it has been!

In just 2 months we will host a one day wedding photography workshop here in beautiful San Luis Obispo, California. Everybody is welcome, but space is limited to keep it intimate. We will share our hearts, our lives and our business with 12 people/businesses. We are going to encourage, inspire and teach our attendees to build a successful business that will last.

Here are a few topics we will be covering and teaching:
-Branding + marketing
-Shooting in RAW using natural light
-Adobe Lightroom
-Finding your voice
-Blog + magazine submissions
-Album design
-Working with your spouse
-Building a business to last
-How to creatively collaborate and direct couples so that they don't look posed.

I will lead an afternoon engagement shoot at for a REAL couple that is madly in love and getting married later this year.

Special Guest Speaker Jose Villa will share about his passion for fine art wedding photography and his successful career. His work has been featured in many prominent magazines and he regularly travels the globe shooting high end destination weddings. He was recently named one of the top ten wedding photographers in the world by Photo District News.

Jose is a great friend and someone I have learned so much from over the years. The way he sees beauty and translates it with a camera is awe-inspiring. Last year I had the honor of being his guest speaker for The Mexico Workshop, and was both challenged and changed by watching him work.



Details:
-Welcome cocktail party Friday night January 29th
-January 30, 2010 {Workshop Day}
-Workshop meals included
-Bring camera gear for afternoon engagement shoot
-$750 per person. Business partner rate: $1,200.
-Spaces are limited to a small group (12 people or businesses).
-Up to 8 Rooms available for Friday and/or Saturday night.
-To register simply sign up here.

Interested in future workshops? Send me an email at fallinlove@cameroningalls.com to let me know.

Check out the beautiful results from my first Fall in Love… Workshop back in May.



Here is what Ellie Grover (pictured above) said about her experience at the Fall in Love… Workshop:

“For the past 3 years prior to your workshop I had been building my photography business and finally felt like I had hit a wall. I wasn’t sure where I was going in my business and if I had what it took to keep it up. I had been admiring your photography from the sidelines ever since you photographed my own sisters wedding several years back – I absolutely jumped at the chance to learn from you as soon as you announced your first workshop! I went in not knowing what to expect, and I came out with exactly what I needed, a renewed sense of purpose in my business and confidence in my passion to create art. Thanks for being real and personal with each one of us! I also know that I walked away with a new friend, and with that, an ever-flowing resource of knowledge. ☺ You are not only an inspiring story in and of yourself, but a person with the true desire to help others find that story for themselves. I feel so much more confident in where I am going and I can’t thank you enough for all you do!”


This is the lovely ranch in the heart of San Luis Obispo where the workshop will be held. Attendees from out of town (or in town) have the option to stay for up to 2 nights in this historic 100 year old farm house. The entire workshop will be hosted here. Viewing and photographing the venue made me so excited for the inspiring experience that we will have together in January!

Marisa + Pelt {Fall in Love… Workshop!}

My first one day workshop was a success! We had 7 photographers with one of them being a husband and wife team, so we had a total of 8 students. It was wonderful to have the group small so that we had ample time for discussion and questions. All of the photographers that came were amazing people full of love for weddings, photography and people. My aim was to inspire, encourage, enrich and teach. I talked a lot about what it takes to run a business for the long haul. How to find your voice as a photographer, and how to work with ‘ordinary’ people to capture both real and extraordinary images. I really tried my best to make the workshop about the students journey rather than about my own. As I shared my story we took breaks for them to reflect on the gifts they have been given, what their dreams are and how they define success and failure. My hope was to challenge and encourage them to overcome any obstacles that blocked the road to their success and to give them some tools to grow their gifts.

Discussion time was held in the beautiful offices of the 805 Collective. Cana VP + Samuel Potter Photography were generous enough to lend us their meeting space. While we had lunch on the back deck of Novo, Sunnie Brooke Jones was doing hair and makeup for our afternoon engagement shoot. Instead of hiring models we used Marisa + Pelt, a real couple who’s wedding I am shooting this summer. I wanted to demonstrate how to take an actual nervous couple, who claims not to be photogenic, and get the most real and beautiful images possible. It turned out to be easier than I expected because Marisa just lit up in front of the cameras; all 9 of them! Because of this, I had greater difficulty explaining to the class how I help my clients overcome awkwardness and insecurity. Thanks Marisa! ;) Pelt said during the shoot that she has been studying my work for so long that it was no wonder she knew exactly what to do.












Jen Slot working it; nice form!
Ellie Grover getting up-close and personal.
I unleashed the wolves…
We had lots of incredible support from some great friends and vendors to make this workshop all that it was. These people offered their time, resources and products to the students and to me. A big fat THANK YOU is in order. You guys rock!

Models: Marisa + Pelt
Hair + Makeup: Sunnie Brooke Jones
Print Lab: Pro DPI
Web + Design: 805 Collective
Mobile Websites: Mobile Digs
Meeting Space: Cana VP + Samuel Potter Photography
Wedding Photography Unveiled: Jose Villa
Flowers: Adornments
Engagement Session Venue: Holland Ranch
Operations Coordinator (A.K.A. Hot Assistant!): Anna Ingalls

The class from left to right. Click on their links to see their shots from the workshop. Jen Slot (+ husband Antoine), Samantha Gardner, Me, Pelt + Marisa, Katie Scott, Terilee Dawn, Ellie Grover, (bottom row) Emily Perello, and Lori Chambless.

What an amazing group of photographers you all are. Thanks so much for sharing your day, your hearts and your lives with me. I hope that you were as challenged and encouraged as I was. May you continue to fall deeper in love with people, photography and weddings and may your business be blessed for many years to come!