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"Thanks again for a great workshop.  I definitely learned a great deal from you and the CD that you provided was fantastic.   Please let me know when you have additional workshops scheduled, I would love to attend.  Also, if it wouldn’t be a bother I’d like to come down on a weekend or two and talk to you a bit more and maybe watch you shoot - I’d like to learn a little bit more on posing and lighting, plus you can get some free labor from me. "
Thanks,
-- Lamont

"Don Giannatti is a consummate photographer who knows the business of making his subjects look good from both sides on the lens. His decades of experience and straight forward approach make his workshop experience well worth the investment.

Don doesn't tell you how to shoot, he teaches you how to create, how to see the light...how to compose the photograph...how to work with a subject in order to capture just the right moment. His enthusiasm is contagious and his methods are proven. He wants his workshop participants to share what he has learned over many years -- how to make a great photograph and have fun doing it!"

Steve Dreiseszun
Principal
Viewpoint Photographers

"Don is without a doubt the best Fashion/Glamour photographer to work in the Valley. One look a his images and you quickly realize the quality of work he produces.

Anyone attending this workshop will leave excited about applying the new techniques they have learned.

Besides being a great person, Don has the ability to teach what he knows. This workshop is a must for anyone wanting to learn how to take great people shots.

Steve Burger
ProDigitalImage (site)
Photoshop Guru and Photographer

So You Would Like to Host a
Workshop in Your Part of
the World? Here's How...

We are a different Kind of workshop. not kinder or gentler, but hard hitting and funI love to travel and I love to teach. I am so excited to be able to come to your town and do a workshop for the local and regional photographers. I look forward to working with the sponsors to create a fantastic workshop experience for everyone.

If you are interested in getting a workshop in your area, you should contact me about being a sponsor. There is mno financial obligation for the sponsor, but there are some duties that must be done well to insure a great workshop.

A sponsor will do the following:

  1. Find and secure a shooting space big enough for 10-11 attendees, 3 models, me and gear. Most of the time a conference room or meeting space is fine, but a cool location with some windows or a studio is best.
  2. Arrange a place for a meetup the evening before. It is really great when traveling so far to have a chance to meet and greet the workshop folks and get to know them a little bit before the next big day. Saves us time in introductions as well and gives us more time to do what we need to do on workshop time.
  3. Find a good restaurant close to the workshop that isn't too dang expensive nor is it fast food. Simple and fast is best, but also a place where we can all sit and chat.
  4. Review and meet the models and make sure they are up to speed on the workshop. I also have paperwork for them and the photographers that makes sure they all know what is allowed and not allowed.
  5. The attendees pay a deposit upon signing up, the balance is to be sent to you for the workshop. This is a comfort level for the attendees to know that the bulk of the money will not be cashed or paid out until the workshop itself. I also allow them to pay me by PayPal the week of the workshop. It is up to them.
  6. Make any other arrangements that would have to be done (permits for shooting in a park or such)
  7. Be the chief cheerleader for the workshop
  8. Identify any additional advertising spaces there to make the registration easier. I have posters and flyers and those kinds of things, but you may have to print a few at your location.
  9. Find me a good place to stay. Close enough to the workshop and not the most expensive around. I have rather spartan needs and prefer ambience to flash.

If you would like to host in your area, get ahold of me by email and let's discuss. Some areas I would personally like to visit are Vancouver / Seattle, Denver, Houston, Atlanta, Cincinnati, hey... I love every place.

I would like to put together a European workshop tour as well. Ireland, UK, Portugal, Spain and Italy. If we could arrange consecutive weekend, it could be really cool. I would like to meet and shoot with as many photographers as I can while there. Any takers... hahaha...

Cheers everyone, and thanks for making the workshop series a big hit.