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If you had one wish…

July 28, 2020

This sum­mer, I have been work­ing hard on tak­ing Images by Dena to the next lev­el. I’ve been reflect­ing a lot. Look­ing back on where I start­ed and where I want to go, and in that reflec­tion, I’ve thought about you. If you had one wish, one pho­tog­ra­phy wish, what would it be?

I was very frus­trat­ed when I was start­ing out in photography…the con­fu­sion, the dis­ap­point­ment. All that I want­ed to do was take some great pho­tos, and for the life of me, I could­n’t do it, and I was scared! Scared that I had this incred­i­ble cam­era and had no idea how to use it.

Are you feel­ing scared? Scared to take your cam­era off auto mode? Not sure how to even begin? Are you tired of tak­ing out of focus, aver­age look­ing pic­tures? I was there as well, and I know just how frus­trat­ing it can be. Once at the very begin­ning there was a pho­to of my hus­band that I was try­ing to take. I would snap the pic­ture over and over, print the pic­ture-Yes; I’m old!!! And when I got them back, they were the same blur­ry mess in every sin­gle one! I can’t tell you how many times I drug him back to that same spot to re-cre­ate that pic­ture, and in the I just switched my cam­era back to auto, to guar­an­tee that I cap­tured what I want­ed! Oh, what I wouldn’ have giv­en for a fairy godmother…and one wish. As a result of that frus­tra­tion, I pushed myself to learn!

I know oth­er’s have felt the same way that I did, the same way that you do. Just read what my stu­den­t’s have said.

Take a look at what they have to say…

Lisa M…

Lisa had a brand new cam­era, a very nice one at that, and did­n’t have a clue of what to do with it…Dena is a great instruc­tor! I learned so much in this 4‑week “Let go of Auto” pho­tog­ra­phy class and it was fun and inter­est­ing. I am hap­py to report that I now get asked to take pho­tos for friends and fam­i­ly. Recent­ly I took my god-daugh­ters senior pho­tos and every­one was super hap­py with the results. I could not have done it with­out this class!

Shannon K…

Like­wise, Shan­non want­ed to learn how to take bet­ter pho­tos with her phone…Over the past years, there have been a num­ber of tal­ents I wish I had the oppor­tu­ni­ty to learn. At the very top was the abil­i­ty to learn how to take a beau­ti­ful pho­to­graph. Specif­i­cal­ly, what are the ele­ments that make one pho­to so much stronger than the oth­er? I always say I wish the iPhone was around when my chil­dren were young to be able to quick­ly cap­ture the moment, as I did not always have my cam­era ready. Over the years, I spoke to my friend Dena if she would be able to help me learn the basics of what a pro­fes­sion­al sees in their lens that I tru­ly am miss­ing in mine. 

When she announced that she had cre­at­ed a course and that it was made for iPhone users like myself, I was in. She chal­lenged us to watch, lis­ten, learn, and then apply her tools with straight­for­ward week­ly home­work. I began this course right as we were begin­ning to quar­an­tine for a world­wide pan­dem­ic. In nor­mal times, I would have dri­ven to my favorite places to cap­ture the per­fect pho­to. What I real­ized was I could pho­to­graph the sim­plest of objects and tru­ly apply what I learned. By pho­tograph­ing the inside con­tents of my refrig­er­a­tor, I learned the rules of “Fill­ing The Frame”. Nor­mal­ly I would have found a much more inter­est­ing sub­ject, how­ev­er, I tru­ly learned the rules by cre­ative­ly apply­ing Dena’s teaching.

You can do it…

To sum it up, what­ev­er you do, what­ev­er you are using to take your pho­tos, DO NOT give up…You will get through this! And I am here to sup­port you every step of the way. In no time, you will be able to take amaz­ing pho­tos! If you are a new­bie pho­tog­ra­ph­er just learn­ing to use your cam­era or phone or are a pho­tog­ra­ph­er who’s stepped away because you could­n’t get the images you want­ed, shoot me an email and answer one ques­tion for me…If you could wave a mag­ic wand and get one result in your pho­tographs, what would it be?

Send an email with your answers, and let’s see if we can grant that wish! And don’t for­get to join my Face­book group, to grab some amaz­ing tips and tricks! 

I look for­ward to hear­ing from you!!

Dena

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