Master Your Craft Seminar Update - San Francisco, CA

Hey everyone! David Escalante here, updating you on the last stop of the Master Your Craft tour: San Francisco! The last stop of the tour was filled with fun and excitement as Bob and Mike shared their expertise with the group. The very talented Ron Dawson of Cinematic Studios was on hand to capture some of the day for an upcoming secret project.

A big thank you to everyone who came out to the tour! It was so good to connect with old friends and meet new ones as well. Thank you to our sponsors as well: Apple, Epson, GraphiStudio, PPA, WPPI, Wescott, Calumet, Triple Scoop Music, and LiveBooks.

Mike has released the seats for The Colón Experience IX, a 4 day intensive workshop. This workshop has limited seats and is filling up quickly. The last 4 day intensive was awesome and everyone came away from it with inspiration and new ideas to grow their business! Here is what a few people had to say:

"The workshop is awesome, more than I expected. Mike’s discussions on technique and workflow have been extremely helpful. In just two days I’ve completely changed the way I shoot." - Phillip Glickman

"Wow...that's all I can say :) I have learned more in one day at Mike's workshop than I could have ever dreamed of. It's kind of like a light bulb coming on over your head..." - Courtney Fries

"I cannot say how impressed I am with Mike over the course of the workshop. He really has a genuine interest in teaching other photographers and wanting to help them take their work up to the next level." - Steve Goldhaber

The Colón Experience VIII Student Portfolio

A short display of each student's images ( semi-large file so please be patient )
Each video is also posted to CutFrameTV, so if you have a CutFrame account (it's free to join!), you can bookmark them there.

All in all it was an awesome workshop with a great group of attendees.
Here is what they had to say about The Colón Experience :

"The workshop is awesome, more than I expected. Mike’s discussions on technique and workflow have been extremely helpful. In just two days I’ve completely changed the way I shoot." - Phillip Glickman

"Wow...that's all I can say :) I have learned more in one day at Mike's workshop than I could have ever dreamed of. It's kind of like a light bulb coming on over your head..." - Courtney Fries

"I cannot say how impressed I am with Mike over the course of the workshop. He really has a genuine interest in teaching other photographers and wanting to help them take their work up to the next level." - Steve Goldhaber

In February, Mike Colón and Bob Davis will be partnering together on the 9 city Master Your Craft Tour. If you missed out on attending "The Colón Experience VIII", this is an opportunity you will not want to miss

The Colón Experience VIII Day 3

On day 3, Mike covered marketing strategies and then in the evening we went out on a night shoot. In Orange County it never really rains, however we have had no shortage of rain this week! Kurt from Pictage showed up to drop off some awesome Pictage hat's and Robert De Niro / Tony Blake seemed to like them a lot.

In the marketing session, Mike was covering bridal inquiries and decided to call a couple brides on the spot, so the attendees could observe.

By the time the night shoot rolled around, it was raining pretty hard. We decided to use a parking structure to cover ourselves from the rain and leverage a nice background behind.

The Colón Experience VIII Day 2

We spent the afternoon shooting at the Mission in San Juan Capistrano

The crew (from left to right: John Loyola, Courtney Fries, Phillip Glickman, Justin Wesbrooks, Chris Diset, Steve Goldhaber, Nathan Dang, Dee Dee Dallas, Tony Blake)

(From left to right: Amy Wellenkamp, Tammy Marcelain, Crystal Petersen, Laurie LaRock, Mandy Hanks, David Escalante, Aiden Colón, Mike Colón)

The Colón Experience VIII Day 1

The workshop awesome so far! We have a good mix of photographers from around the globe. Here are just a few images of what the first day was like.

The Colón Experience VIII Prep

The Colón Experience VIII is underway! I've hijacked Mike's blog because he is taking a short break from blogging for this week to focus on the workshop, so I'll be posting photo and video updates giving a short summary of what happens at The Colón Experience. Kenny Kim & I will be handling the blogging here for the remainder of the week & we are excited to share our images with you.

Last night we stayed up late prepping for the workshop and stopped off at Fuji Yama's a little earlier in the evening.

We Did It!

What a day! I'm here at Blue Skies Cinema with Jeff Wright and we just finished the voiceover work for my next big DVD project! I'm so excited about how great this project is coming out! It's the first time I've hired someone to travel with me and film me at work during a live wedding. Jeff did an amazing job shadowing me for the entire day.  His shooting style and editing skills just blow me away!  As most of you know, Jeff is the one who did my promo video for the Grace Ormonde Wedding Style Magazine cover shoot for 2006.  Today, we added in a ton of voiceover to explain everything from camera settings to my thought process behind the images. It's a behind the scenes look at a wedding that posed many challenges due to rain. I'll be making this available to photographers at a very affordable price soon! Stay tuned for pre-order specials coming this week! All pre-orders will ship in time for Christmas!