On my way to the banquet hall @ The Ritz-Carlton Hotel and I was trying to hold in my excitement.
Registration of participants
The workshop started with a brief welcome by the workshop organizer. In Malaysia for the first time, Nigel Barker had been brought in by Epic Voyage to share his expertise and experience in photography.
There he is! The multi-talented Nigel Barker, a judge and photographer on reality TV show America's Next Top Model!
I must say Nigel Barker is a really nice guy and funny, definitely not a typical ‘Model - Photographer’ type of person one would stereotypically expect him to be. He always seems to crack up ‘one liners’ that would make the audience that listen to him burst into laughter and immediately feel at ease by his presence.
This was a one-day workshop with in-class tutorials and group practical sessions. Pick up tips on Nigel Barker's shooting mystique, his art of provocative aesthetics and timeless photography. However, it's impossible for me to effectively share about everything I've learned in one mere blog post.
Basically, there were 4 sessions in the programme.
Session 1:
Introduction to workshop
Lighting Techniques In studio and On Location
*coffee break*
The coffee break area outside the banquet hall
Session 2:
Landscape photography & Photojournalism
*lunch*
We had our buffet lunch at Shook!, Starhill Gallery.
"Portraiture" with practical session
Session 3:
"Image Making"
*coffee break*
Session 4:
The Art of Advertising Photography
The Business Behind The Image
Q&A wrap up
*workshop ends*
Nigel Barker professes that the most inspiring iconic photograph is ultimately photographs of real people and real lives. “It was their lives that really moved you, not necessarily their faces. When I think about my favorite pictures, it was never because the person in the photograph was pretty or good looking but because the person was a good person,” says Nigel Barker.
I truly enjoyed the whole experience a lot! He is a photographer who works with compassion and heart that gives his photography soul and meaning, an inspiration and has touched so many hearts, and definitely has touched mine.
An autographed copy of Nigel Barker's new book, “Beauty Equation”
Nigel Barker's book guides readers through a series of self portrait and journaling challenges which help its readers to discover their inner beauty through self confidence and self esteem.
My certificate of participation signed by Nigel Barker
Oh, and of course there's also...
a picture of me and the towering 192cm celebrity photographer, Nigel Barker!
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