New Beginner Digital Photography Class Dates for 2017

Class Dates
McDonough      - Jan 23,30 and Feb 6th- 2017
Peachtree City   - Jan 24,31 and Feb 7th - 2017
Duluth               - Jan 26 and Feb 2,9th - 2017
Locations for PTC and Duluth will be announced when the venue is finalized.

Guess what ?  I am starting a Camera Museum !!!  We want to open in Spring of 2017.  See info here  http://www.facebook.com/CameraMuseums/

Just want to let everyone know that I have officially retired from Wedding Photography after 36 years.  I got to meet cool people.  Go to some very exotic places and made a boat load of money.  Now, just to keep my hand in the wedding business that I love, I officiate weddings as an ordained wedding minister.  See www.artisticminister.com  for all the info.

Happy New Year Everyone !

There are MANY new changes coming to Image Doctor this next year in 2016.  We will be doing more personal appearances than ever.  All over the Southeast.  We will try to remember to post locations and dates here but Facebook has really taken over our social media time and sometimes we just forget about the BLOG.  But we will try to do much better this year !

McDonough Noir

This is the first image from a show I am putting together called McDonough Noir.  It will be 15-30x44 inch black and white prints shot in the Film Noir style of the late 1940s  The subjects are all people that you see out and about on the McDonough nightlife scene. (That is why there is only 15 of them)  I will post details and behind the scenes shots as we do it this Summer.

Portrait Workshop in May

Portrait Workshop

If you are struggling with your budding photography business or thinking of starting one, this workshop is for you.   

This One Day Portrait Workshop will cover the essential subjects that every good portrait photographer should know.  The following topics will be covered:

Exposure,                                            Composition,

 Equipment Selection,                    In and Out of Studio Lighting

 Products you should offer          How to Increase your Print Sales

Advertising                                        Quick Work Flow

Labs and Vendors                            Should you make Photography  a Career?

You will learn from Scott Evans a full time photographer with 35 years of experience.  See his recent work at www.scottevans.com

Class time is from 12-8:30 on May 9, 2015 at Image Doctor in McDonough, Ga.   We will eat lunch while we learn and feel free to bring your own special snacks if needed.  Unlimited bottled water will be provided. This is a ‘Loose” timeline of the day

12-1pm       Exposure, and Composition

1-2pm         Equipment and Studio Lighting

2-3:30pm   Studio Portrait Shoot and Out Door Urban Portrait Live Shoot

3:30-5pm   Workflow, Post Processing, Products to offer and Labs and Vendors

5-6:30         Advertising and Sales

7-8:30         Golden Hour  Outdoor Photo Shoot.

The weather in Ga is unpredictable.  If we have Heavy forecast rain for Saturday we will move this workshop to Sunday at the same time. This decision will be made on Wednesday afternoon May 6^th.

Class space is limited to 10 people.  Get your ticket before your competition does!

Bring all of your camera gear and a GOOD tripod if you have one.          Price is $ 199.99  Get Your Ticket HERE

Facebook Stole My Bloging Time

Wow, has it really been over a year since I posted anything to this Blog?  Guess so. Facebook seems to have killed off a lot of the great blogs that we followed just a few years ago.  I hope to be able to talk about some of my new projects on here soon.  You can see them on the several Facebook pages that I publish, but I think it will be fun to post to this blog again, even if only a few people check it out.  The photo is from last weekends wedding of my former assistant Justin and his lovely bride.

This is a wedding album that I restored at the shop this week.

Not a Lot

What is Scott doing lately?  Well other than shooting some weddings, teaching some classes and running the Image Doctor shop, not much.  And that is just the way I want it.

Just a few more photos from last weekend.  One of them is a 40 second long exposure of two old hippies that I met at around midnight out on the beach.  I call it "Moon Bathers"

Another Long Exposure photograph from this weekend. Thanks for the nice comments everyone. We will be doing a workshop this Fall at Jekyll Island on this type of photography. Send me a message with your e mail address and I will put you on the list of those interested in these workshops. You will not get any spam or junk mail from me , just class information.  E mail me at imagedocmedia@gmail.com

You Can Check Out

Shot this at Midnight on the beach the other night.  The web posting does not really do the colors justice.  Right now I am calling it "You Can Check Out But You Can Never Leave"
Oh, and the scene did not look like this,  this is a 30 second exposure. It was pitch black dark.  I will post more from this adventure later.

A Cool Couple and a Truck

I had the pleasure today of working with a cool couple who will be married in Arkansas next year.
This is one of the photos that we will be making into a very large canvas art piece.

Tonight's Wedding

Just a few photos from tonight's wedding 

because I can not sleep.

Hand Coloring Black and White Photos

These 2 photos are from a student of mine who is taking my Basic Photography and Basic Photoshop Elements Class.  She was also in the Macro Photography Class 2 weeks ago.  Anyway, she also took my Hand Coloring Black and White Photos class and just sent me her first work of art.  The original photo is of a back alley behind some row houses in England where she grew up.  I think she did quite well.
I will be doing another Hand Coloring Class this summer.  If you are not on my class mailing list but would like to be, just send me an e mail and I will put you on it.  No Spam just Class info will be sent.

Sober and On Time

You know that has to be what she told him.

Macro Photography Class

These images are from some of the students  who took my Macro Photography Class last Sunday.
The photos were taken in the gardens at Hazlehurst House in McDonough

I think they did very well.

We will do this class again very soon.  Call 770-355-9644or e mail me at imagedocmedia@gmail.com  to get on the class email list !

The Bridal Portrait for Last Weeks Wedding

I just had to share this one.

My Bride Today was a FIREBALL

I had so much fun with her today. We almost lost the veil to a gust of wind on the roof of the Georgian Terrace. Here are just a few photos.

Plans for this years first Wedding Photography School are well under way. Stay tuned for dates and how to sign up. Looks like it will be end of September.

Good night all.

I am going to bed. Another event tomorrow.

A Few from this Months Weddings

It has been above 90 degrees every day here in Georgia for over a month. When I left the shop today the temp in my truck was 117. WHY WHY WHY do people have out door weddings in July in GA ? Lucky for me, only 2 of my July weddings were outside. Here are a few photos.

Also, we are about to announce the dates for Wedding School. 5 Days with Me and several other photographers and speakers on all things wedding photography. Class size will be very limited this year. To get the dates and to register 2 days before the announcement send me an e mail at scott@scottevans.com and I will put you on the advance e mail list.

100 Degrees of Passion

This weekend we had 3 weddings going on the same day. I shot 2 myself and our associate Donnie shot one at The Hazelhurst House. It was 95 degrees by 11am here in Georgia and it only got hotter. I left the first wedding in Atlanta at 4 and raced to the second one out in the country. In this photo, it was 100 degrees and the horse poop in the pasture was starting to make steam.

UBL DEAD

Thanks to the US CIA, Navy Seals, and I'll almost bet the 160th SOAR from Ft Campbell, KY (Seals Taxi Service) I just hope that Obama does not try to take ALL the credit.

Richmond, Va

It is very late (almost 4 am) and I just got back to my hotel after shooting this couple since Friday. It was a trying day to say the least. A whole bunch of people in the wedding party, logistic issues with three different locations at four different times, shuttle buses, 300 guests and an unenthusiastic groom. Those are the not so great points. The good stuff is that the bride was fantastic. Beautiful, cooperative, calm, gracious. Her parents were wonderful as well, so were the grooms parents. All very nice people.

I feel as if this week started on Wednesday with Janet the dogs and I huddled in the hall closet as the worst tornado outbreak in US history decided to take aim directly at my town at 1:30 Thursday morning. I tracked the storms all afternoon on Wed an am glad that I did. Just as the largest tornado was about to hit McDonough it just disappeared, just a half a mile from town.

Thursday Am I jumped in the car and drove to Richmond. Not a short ride at all. Friday was rehearsal at the church and then dinner at Country Club of Virginia (Nice Joint) and then the wedding all over the place today. I have only downloaded one camera card so I will only share one photo. I am going to bed. Thanks for reading.

A Change ?

I am getting rather board with being a "Pillar of the Community"
I think I will give that title up for a while.

Birmingham,Al

What a GREAT time I had at this weekends wedding in Birmingham with a big ole bunch of people and toddlers ! We snuck onto roof tops, drank beer and partied with a fantastic Soul/East coast beach music band with a killer horn section.

Married 80 Years

I just got back to a computer after tonight's wedding.
You know how at some weddings they do a dance where they call out "If you have been married less than x amount of years please leave the dance floor". And then it whittles down to the couple that has been married the longest. Well tonight we had a couple that has been married 80 Years. They were married in 1930. AND THEY WERE STILL MOVING AROUND !
My parents have been married for 60 years and I though that was really something.
Oh and my bride and groom were 68 and 70 years old.
Git It !

Wonderful Night

No Wedding tonight for the first time in a while. Yesterday afternoon a young lady from way over in Western Alabama drove over to the shop for her Bridal Portrait Photo Session. Lets just say that it was not the best day for that. An hour and a half before we were supposed to start shooting she calls from the other side of Birmingham to say that they were running over an hour late.

The "Other Side of Birmingham" to most Georgians is like saying 1950. If you want to go back in time, you just go to The Other Side of Birmingham. I think that folks in Alabama say something similar about Georgia and they probably have a right to because they scored way higher on SAT scores than many Georgians did last year, but hey, we beat South Carolina !

ANYWAY, 10 min before she and her mom got to the shop it was raining and sleet was falling at times. The wind was blowing and she was in a strapless dress in 45 degree weather. But what a TROOPER. She hauled that dress all around our silly little town and met most of the population while being photographed.

We went over to Hazlehurst House and shot a few photos as well as in the alley behind my studio. I also did some in studio stuff that is quite rare for me. The theme for her wedding is white on white. White dress, flowers, decor ect. So we shot some all white stuff on a white background in my studio. I would have some of it ready to show you right now but I lost my glasses while on the shoot and I really do not like to work on the computer editing photos without my glasses so I only have these two photos to show you.

The other two photos are from tonight. My favorite band "Rough Draft" was playing my favorite place to eat "Fatt Matt's Rib Shack" in Atlanta so the kids and I went to the show.

I have been taking my kids Marah and Garen to Fatt Matt's since they were ages 2 and 4. They are now 18 and 20 and they have watched Rough Draft with me the whole time. We got older and so did the band, But tonight was the best 3 set show we have ever seen from them. They have not played together for a full year and tonight was the first time they have even seen each other. They walked in , plugged up and flat tore the house down.

Photos are of the photo shoot yesterday and Marah and Garen and Fatt Matt's my step son Chris was also there and we all had a great time.

New Product for my High School Seniors

I call this the POP Quad.
Inspired by a Beatles album cover, the Jimi Hendrix album I am listening to right now and that classic Kodak Tri-X overexposed heavy grain look I remember so much from when I was in High School.
This will be sold as a 32x32 in a black frame. No changes. It is what it is.

The Way I Like A Wedding Album

Finally, someone gets it !
Not to diss any of my other couples out there who's wedding I have had the pleasure of photographing, but LauraAnn gets it. What is IT ?

It, is that a Wedding Album, Story Book, Collection or whatever else you want to call it to sound trendy, does not have to have 300 photos in it to feel like you got your moneys worth.

Laura Ann picked her photos for her wedding album yesterday and there are only about 40 of them. At first I thought that there was a page missing from the order form, but then I looked at her selections and I saw what she was trying to put together. What she was doing was creating a very artful collection of photographs that captured the EMOTION of the day rather than a documentary.

I just can not wait to start the design on this book. But that will have to wait until Tuesday, it is 1:30 am right now and I still have to open the shop at 10am and then a double header starting at 5 tomorrow and if they are winning, they will be playing on Sunday evening as well.

Photos are some of LauraAnn's picks.

Wild Day

So today I had two High School Senior photo shoots. Both done just for fun because they were my son's friends. Brook dated Garen for a long time when they were 15 and 16 and Alex was a pitcher and a 3rd baseman on many of the baseball teams Garen played on over the years. Brook and my daughter are also friends, so I was very happy to be able to photograph these fine young adults with very bright years to come. As well as the Sr shoots, the former Miss Georgia came in and drooped off 21 VHS-C video tapes to be converted to DVD and several big Photo Restoration jobs came in .

Because of all of this, here I sit editing images in my office at home at midnight. My buddy Chip turned me on to Pandora Internet Radio about a year ago and I have downloaded the app for my desktop. You can make your own radio channel that only plays the kind of music you like. Tonight it is the Jimi Hendrix channel. My new workstation at home has the best bad ass speaker system I could find, and my end of the house is shaking! What a way to get the creative energy just a flowing. Photos are from today.