Kingman, AZ Photography Class

 

Hello friends!

Charlsie Oliverson Photography and I are combing forces to offer locals a chance to get some hands on experience in improving their photography and getting to know your camera. Whether you are a beginner wanting to know basics of using your camera in manual or you are comfortable with your camera and want some creative ideas and tips on how to improve your photography, these courses will be right up your alley.

Four Week Course Schedule $135

October 16th, 2013 10AM-12PM

October 23rd, 2013 10AM-12PM

October  30th,2013 10AM-12PM

November 6th, 2013 10AM-12PM

Workshop $135 (NOTE THE CHANGE IN DATE!!)

November 16th, 2013 8AM-4PM

Enroll HERE

Single class options are also available if you don’t have time to attend the workshop or all 4 weeks email me and I will give you the outline for each individual class. Enrollment per class is $35. If you are interested in learning more about photography but these options don’t fit your schedule or you want to focus on a different topic please email charlsieoliverson@gmail.com or chelseas_attic@yahoo.com.  We schedule our photography classes according to demand. Chances are you aren’t the only one with a different request.  Let us know and we will try to plan for you in the future.

Hope to see you there!

Refreshing

Hello friends. I just returned from this magical place, pictured above. It's my Grammy's house in Rhode Island on Yawgoo Pond. Which is actually a lake. There was a family reunion on her side of the family to celebrate her 80th year on this earth and I was fortunate enough to have a myriad of wonderful people help me so I could make it there to the reunion. I can't capture the magic of this place in words, or even photos, but suffice it to say I've been recharged. It was wonderful!

While I was there I was able to fly under the wing of my uncle, Tim Brown, who has had a passion for photography far longer than I've been alive. I grew up around his pictures. I remember hours spent in his studio air spraying glass to package frames ready to sell for some summer cash. He had an art studio open with my Dad in downtown Salida,CO for a while. I remember wandering the walls, listening to the Buena Vista Social Club and escaping the heat with their giant swamp cooler and studying and pouring over his work hung all over the shop. You really get taken to the places he's been. If there is anyone I'd say has continually inspired me to stretch and go further and try harder at my work, it is him.

While there we took his kids and my sister to a few places that any photographer would get an electric charge out of. While watching him and interacting with him, I took some of my own work in the process. It was heaven. 

So here's to being recharged. Pushing my limits. Go big or go home. Hallelujah.

First ever workshop!

I am super excited about this!

This has been a while in the making because I keep thinking about what I want to focus on and what would be most helpful to people. In the end I decided that I want to structure this around the things that I find the most enjoyment in getting a great image- hopefully it will be for you too!
So without further ado, I am announcing my first ever super-casual-low-key-bring-what-you-have-and-learn-what-you-want workshop!! Here are the deets:

• You don't have to have a super nice DSLR camera- bring whatever you have! While I will be covering a few tips on camera settings, I don't want to focus a lot of time on this so it would be helpful if you have a basic understanding of your camera. I will help how I can at the workshop, but want to focus on what I feel is more valuable to your photography education. :-)
• I will be zoning in on a couple of things in particular: working with kids and editing. Or, in essence, how to get good portraits of your kids (or someone else's kids). Half of the shoot will be outside at a specified location and the other half will be back at my house and I will show you step by step what I do in Lightroom and Photoshop to edit my photos (or in otherwords, but I get from the "before" picture to the "after" picture, as shown above) using the images from our shoot. 
• There will be door prizes and freebies!
• Please register early so I know who to plan for- the more people who sign up, the more fun things we can do. If we get overbooked, I will schedule another class so everyone has an opportunity. 

You can register by calling me (970-978-8315), messaging me on facebook, or emailing me at chelseas_attic@yahoo.com. If you have any further questions, let me know! Hope to see you there!
Hope this Monday is not too brutal on you, and enjoy that extra hour of sun at night! :-)

I Heart Faces Challenge: ORANGE!

November is my most favorite month out of the year.
The day after I celebrated my 21st birthday, my husband and I welcomed our first precious child into the world on November 17th. What a wonderful birthday gift. She was chubby and blonde and beautifully perfect in every way. Craig had to leave me in the hospital one night on my own and I spend the entire night bonding with her. I remember how serene I felt, and also lost and completely terrified of how to be the best mom for this precious little gift, and I shed tears of gratitude and love.
November is a great month.
This month that same beautiful girl we brought into the world is a bashing blonde beauty, and a girl after my own heart. Of our three kids I think she looks, and acts, the most like me. Same glasses, same blue eyes, same heart shaped face and rosy cheeks, same clumsiness, same spaciness, and same love for imagination and creativity. I always have this inner sense of understanding that we will always be good friends. It's just a given.
Here is my little girl in her natural setting. I think she would have sat here and stared at the trees and the river all day. These are the things I hope she remembers about being a kid. :-) Can't beat those orange and yellow leaves too...

I really dig the color orange.
Find some more of it over at I Heart Faces!
 

Going Places

Oh I am WAY behind in blogging.
Sheesh.
I still love this blog with all of my dearest little heart, and can I tell you that redesigning again was SO easy with some of the new features that blogger has on their template designer? Much less code. Much more fun. So I am trying to reconnect myself so that I can fulfill all of my blogging dreams on here. Or something like that.
This lady was on FIRE the whole shoot. So easy going. Such a beauty. Made my job a breeze! And I am so totally envious of her wardrobe and style- her shoes were amazing, let me just say that. And earrings. And..well, everything.
And she's so totally on top of everything and talented, wishing her the best of luck in all of her college applying adventures! She certainly is going places.

 

Something Orange

This shoot was basically amazing.

I got the sunflare action from Flourish Emporium, but the beauty of the photo is obviously on the chair. :-) Orange is my favorite fall flavor.
Check out some other lovely lovely Orange photos at www.rocktheshotforum.com.
I know that's what I'm doing some more of right now.
And watching Once Upon a Time with the hubs.
Don't judge.

 

Moving up and on with life

Class. Ease. This friend had such a natural relaxed nature about him, this shoot was a breeze. It was like he knew what I was asking him before I asked him and just did it. I knew that working with him would be fun, but I had one of those get-the-chills-cause-I-know-these-shots-are-going-to-look-amazing moments through the whole time we were bombing around town. 
PS. I love shooting seniors. BOOK ME.