2010 had been a crazy travel year for us and our last adventure of the year took us to Asia!

A few months back, we got an invitation from Yu-Hsin of TinyDot Photography in Singapore to do a 2-day workshop for a small group of photographers in Asia. We instantly said yes!

In front of a great group of photographers from Singapore, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Brunei, Australia, and London; we discussed our approach, inspirations, and the philosophies of what we do, starting from photojournalism to portraits. Of course, there’s a short shooting session with a gorgeous real couple despite the rain. And as a bonus for Top Chef fans, our awesome venue is GardenAsia where the last season’s finale was filmed!

We had a great experience and made many new friends. Thank you, TinyDot for being such a great host! Totally worth the twenty hours of traveling! :)

Wanna learn?  We have two awesome workshops that would guarantee to get you thinking about your photos:  

The intense 2ON1, or the soon scheduled Photo 102 for amateurs.  Drop us an email through our contact form and indicate which types of workshops you would be interested in!


Below are some pics from TinyDot:

And our resulting images:

I was lucky enough to be invited by my good friend, the talented Vinicius Matos (the genius behind the photography school in Belo Horizonte, Escola de Imagem) to do a small workshop for his students. Brazil is an amazing place, filled with really friendly people. Probably one of the nicest group of people I’ve ever met. The workshop was an intense 2-day workshop translated in Portuguese (which I think is a really beautiful language, but sooooo very difficult language to learn, phonetically).

We talked about the philosophies of wedding images, starting from photojournalism to portraits and all things photography, and we had an awesome time photographing a couple of models in a nearby indoor market.  Weather was sketchy (it was raining really hard almost everyday) but we managed to get lucky and successfully did the shoot.  Here are some of the shots from the workshop by my new friend, Henrique Ribas as well as some of mine from the photoshoot.

Who else is interested for a workshop?  We have two awesome workshops that would guarantee to get you thinking about your photos:  The intense 2ON1, or the soon scheduled Photo 102 for amateurs.  Contact us through our contact form and indicate which types of workshops you would be interested in!

Now, time for shots! (The following 4 shots by Henrique Ribas)  Model: Luh Montini

And now here are some of the results:

That’s right folks! We’d like to invite you to spend two days with us in Singapore to talk, eat, and breathe photography. Our friends from Tiny Dot Photography is kind enough to start the whole thing and offered to host the workshop in their country and we couldn’t be more excited!



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What are you going to talk about?
How to get the right moments
How to shoot based on your clients’ personalities
Live shoot
Live critiques
Post production and workflow
Anything goes!!


When?
December 6-7, 2010. But, we advise that you arrive a couple of days early to battle jetlag, and hangout afterwards to enjoy what Singapore has to offer. Hint: their street foods are to die for!


How much?
$980 Singapore Dollar per student (about $715)


How do I sign up for this?
Click Here!

HURRY & SIGN UP NOW. SPACES ARE LIMITED!

See you in Singapore!!

Another set from our 3rd 2ON1 Private Workshop live shoot!


The 2ON1 Private Workshop is designed to get the highest amount of learning catered to your needs based on your current photography level. It’s like two workshops in one! Learn from Ray + Erwin, an award-winning team of photographers that shoot with different views but focusing on effective story telling through capturing emotions. It will be a full-throttle 2-day workshop that is designed to get you thinking, not to tell you how to do things. No hype, no BS.


Want in?  Please email us at info@aperturaphoto.com with “2ON1″ as the subject.

Nightingale & Johnny drove all the way from Central California to volunteer for our 2nd 2ON1 Workshop.  The day was focused on the use of single directional light and using low light situations to create good portraits.  Here are some of our favorites: