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Everyday Magic

Everyday Magic Course
Everyday Magic Photograpy Class

$29.00

This course is a photographic guide to finding and capturing the delight and wonder of your ordinary life. Through the course of the lessons and content included in this class, I will show you how to find the places where science and magic meet. And I will teach how to capture the magic by demystifying the photographic process.

COURSE CONTENTS

This course includes a refresher on exposure and has six lessons on the following subjects:

  • The Golden Hour
  • Bokeh
  • Macro Photography
  • Winged Wonders
  • Shadows and Light
  • Reflections

In addition, each lesson in the course contains the following:

  1. Main Presentation – This is where we will dig deep into the lesson content. I will share detailed explanations of the topic as well as my inspiration and approach for capturing the subject in that lesson.
  2. Shooting Demonstration – For each lesson I have filmed a short, real-time shooting demonstration where I share my gear and my camera settings, as well as tips and techniques for the subject of that lesson.
  3. Lightroom Editing Tutorial – I believe that post-processing can enhance the magical effects in an image and help reinforce the story I am trying to tell, so each lesson will also include a start-to-finish Lightroom editing tutorial. (Please note that post-processing completely optional and Lightroom is absolutely not a requirement for this class.)
  4. Materials – In addition to this main course content, every lesson also includes a PDF handout as well as a Lightroom preset that you can download for your own personal use.

So join me and let’s explore ways of using our DSLR cameras to capture the magic and wonder of the world around us!

 

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  1. kelly says

    April 1, 2020 at 1:00 pm

    Terri I added you to the class manually – let me know if this doesn’t work for you!

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Hi There! I’m Kelly. I am a wife, mom, light seeker, homemaker, and storyteller. From an empty nest to an abundant life, all it took was a little time, a lot of faith, and the courage to see my life differently.

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For the past couple of weeks, every night after dinner I grab my gloves, shovel, and cart and head out to the backyard to work in my flowerbeds. 

In one flowerbed I divided some perennials and moved a few things around. This week I worked on staking my snapdragons. Most of the work though (in terms of time and labor) has been cleaning out the weeds that had gotten completely out of control.

Each night I come inside covered in dirt and drenched in sweat. And man…it feels so good. As someone who works at a desk inside in the air conditioning, there just isn’t much opportunity for me to get that dirty. So it makes me smile when I hop in the shower before bed and watch as the dirt washes off my body and down the drain.

I share a lot of photo of pretty flowers, so today I wanted to share a behind the scenes photo that honors the work that goes into growing and tending to them. This isn’t the kind of stylized photo that the algorithm loves, but this is what gardening in my real life looks like. 

And I am really proud of the work that goes into it.
Even though, technically speaking, it’s not offi Even though, technically speaking, it’s not officially summer yet, here in my neck of the woods, I can tell that we’ve turned the corner so to speak. The spring winds have died down and in their place the thick, humid summer haze has taken up residence. I can see it my garden too… we’ve gone from daffodils to daylilies.

Summer is here. And I absolutely love it.

It’s usually around this time of year when I start to see lots of summer bucket lists and manifestos. Which is great (I would say especially so if you have little ones to keep entertained and/or engaged for summer). But the problem for me is that they always seem to morph into an utterly impossible and in-achievable agenda. 

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Turns out…it’s quite simple actually. 

I want a summer that is grace-filled. Joy-full. I want connection and laughter. Freedom and adventure. Whimsy and light. And while I am so looking forward to some of the fun things my family has planned, I would also like to create some margin and space for the unexpected. For the impromptu. For the spontaneous.

Funny thing is, my intention for the summer is really just the same as for the rest of the year. Which is to be fully present in my own life. To not be thinking two hours ahead or three tasks ahead. To see with new eyes and an open heart. To just be present in each moment whatever that may be...because regardless of the season, that's where the magic lies.
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