Chris and I have been working and planning for an exciting workshop!! It's a workshop for YOU! This is not for professional photographers, but for moms & dads and those that love to capture life as it happens. Those that want to know how to control their cameras so that their photos look like what they had envisioned in their head, when they clicked the shutter!

Over the last several months we have had more and more people calling, emailing, facebooking, and twittering us with questions about their new cameras. These questions have come from Moms & Dads who bought a Digital SLR, in the hopes of recording those spontaneous moments in their lives beautifully. (An SLR is one of those big fancy cameras, that you can change the lenses on; for those that don't know what that term means).

We can't be at your home 24/7, photographing you and your family, and many of those special moments happen without warning, first steps, dad falling asleep with the kids reading bedtime stories, etc. We will still be here to photograph your family photos, and edit them and print them professionally. Because let's face it, you still need photos with all of you together.  The kids need photos with you in FRONT of the camera instead of behind it! ;) This workshop is for those moments between photo sessions, those moments that are unplanned, but just as special!

As many of you know, I began my journey down the road to becoming a Sacramento portrait photographer as nothing more than a mom with a camera, wanting to make my day to day photos of my kids look as beautiful and awesome as I could. 

I wanted those special moments to be recorded as they happen, in the spontaneous moments of life, just as beautifully as I remembered them.  I taught myself through reading every book/manual/online forum I could get my hands on. It was a constant process of trial and error.  I would look at magazines and books and try and figure out how those photos were achieved.  I would try out what I thought would give my photo that look, use a whole roll of film and wait for it to come back from being developed and see if what I tried was successful.  (remember the old days of waiting!?!?!)

My passion in professional photography has always been to provide other's that same gift.  Photos that convey that passion, moment, spontaneous laugh or tear as they happen.  Photos that serve as a visual memory of our lives.

And that is why we are going to be offering this workshop!  We want to help all of our friends, and clients who want to capture life through photos, between their photo sessions. 

We are planning for the first workshop to be on a Saturday in January.  If you are interested in more information about the workshop,please send us an email at the address below.  We will have more information on the workshop rolling out in the next few weeks and want those of you interested, to be the firtst to know!!

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact us.  You can email us at workshops@jenstewartphotography.com