Mark Wallace and the fine folks at Adorama have interviewed me for their “How’d They do That” series.

Check it out, HERE I think it came out great. Thanks Mark and Adorama.

Please check back in the next few days for a big announcement concerning a workshop RETREAT myself and Kelli Trontell are holding in beautiful Whitefish Lake in Montana. This is not a workshop, but rather a retreat that will not just educate but empower you to be the absolute best photographer and creative soul you can be.

This blog post is a little late but it’s one that I’m very excited to post. A few months ago a good friend of mine, Kelli Trontell and I started a new venture. It called Tabor Jean and it’s a unique wedding photography business. The name comes from our middle names (Kelli’s is Jean and mine is Tabor.)

The aim of Tabor Jean is to approach wedding photography from a new, fresh lifestyle perspective. I am not stopping what I do with my normal photography and neither is Kelli. Tabor Jean is a separate entity independent of our other businesses.

We have a web site up with some select images from weddings we have done so far. Our goal is not to shoot 30-40 weddings a year like most wedding photography businesses, but rather a few select ones that makes sense for us and the couple.

I seriously hope you enjoy what you see, the best is yet to come.

www.taborjean.com

I taught my Light & Commerce workshop last year and it went extremely well. The feedback was amazing. I’ve stopped them for now. I’m honestly tired of teaching the same thing over and over (it’s not you, it’s me.) I’ve thought about Light & Commerce 2.0 but I don’t really feel like it would be much different.

I absolutely love teaching. I do private one-on-one workshops for people all the time and I mentor in various other ways at my studio and online. I was even told by someone who came to both a L&C workshop and a private one, that he came from a family of educators and thought I had a real gift for it. That really, really inspired me that what I do does help people achieve their goals.

I mention all of this to say that I am really itching to do another day or two of educational learning, but I really want it to be something where the curriculum is driven by the people attending.

I don’t want to pretend to know what aspiring photographers need to learn. I have my clues but the industry is changing so fast, there seems to be a new thing to learn every day.

So with that in mind, I am introducing a yet-to-be-named workshop where you the attendees choose what gets taught. No photography-related subject is off-topic. Pre-production, post-production, workflow, lighting, business are all pretty vague.

Be specific about what you would like to learn. Do you want to go on location, be in the studio, both? Work with models, musicians? No idea is a bad one.

Leave comments below about anything you would like to see covered. If I can get a good curriculum that meets the needs of everyone and can be put together in a cohesive way, I will introduce one soon.

Everyone who submits an idea below will receive $50 off the price when it does launch.

Mark Wallace is bring his PocketWizard sponsored Meetup Tour to Nashville on January 11. It will be hosted at my studio and PocketWizard has asked me to join Mark on this leg to help answer any questions people have regarding anything photography related.

Details are HERE

The event is FREE and there are currently 3 tickets left and you can get them HERE

I get a lot of requests for internships and it’s something I’ve done loosely in the past without much structure. This time around I am going to do it in a way that’s not only more structured, but more beneficial to both parties.

This is an unpaid internship but you will learn enormous amounts of information both on and off the set. I’m an open book and I have no secrets. I have a mentoring heart and operate a business with the utmost integrity. You will also be given full usage of my studio to shoot in. It normally rents for $550 a day.

What I’m looking for is someone to do the following:
- Assist on photo shoots
- Digital asset management
- Backing up files and catalogs
- Photoshop & Lightroom work
- Behind the scenes & misc. video shooting
- Very light video editing (iMovie is fine)

As for personality qualities the ideal person would; have a love of photography, know and own a Mac, be hard working, prompt, have a sense of humor, not be a diva or artsy fartsy.

If this is something that sounds up your alley, email Kelli. We’ll go through the emails and set up interviews so we can meet and find the right person. As of now we are only looking for one person but that may change in the future.

I am selling the camera that I use as a backup (which means I don’t use it all that much.) It is a Canon 1Ds Mark II, not to be confused with the cheaper 1D Mark II. This was Canon’s top of the line camera when it came out and is the now the second best in it’s line (it was replaced by the 1Ds Mark III.)

This is a 16.7 megapixel camera with 45 AF points, a weather-sealed pro body, strong construction and takes amazing images!

I paid $8,000 for it brand new. I am asking $3,100 for it and I’m including a second battery (these batteries are amazing and last a full day.)

Anyone interested please contact me. I have the original box, manuals, cables, etc. I am very anal about my equipment and it has been taken good care of.

WELCOME to the newest version of my site. I’m pretty pumped as the old site has been up for 3 years. The guys at Contraflage did an amazing job. This site is fast, clean and looks & works the exact same on an iPhone. I couldn’t be happier with the job they did.

Keep an eye on this blog for all sorts of updates, behind the scenes clips and who knows what else.

Thanks, David