Jasmine Star, a Orange County Wedding Photographer, has been a great inspiration for my wedding photography for a long time. 
Early this year, she did an photo session for Joe and I : Anytime Session with Jasmine Star , and I loved the way she interacts with her clients, and her upbeat energy makes the session very easy yet relaxed. So when I heard that she started doing wedding photography workshops, I was thrilled. I wanted to attend, but so are many of her photography blog readers.
Six months has passed since Jasmine Star’s first Orange County Wedding Photographer workshop, one morning, I woke up to an email, that says Jasmine’s workshop is open for registration, I wasn’t going to let this one pass… And I am so glad that I didn’t. I walked away with tremendous amount of information.
Wedding Photography workshops are continuing education for wedding photographers . Since wedding photography is a very trendy business, we as wedding photographers need to be up to date with the current photography trend and what couple’s are looking for these days. Jasmine’s workshop touched on topics in all aspects of wedding photography, from natural light to branding, there were a lot of good information given at the wedding photography workshop.
The morning of the workshop, I woke up long before the alarm went off. One of my dogs, Moochi, who likes to sleep on my pillow, lifted up his head and opened one of his eyes to see why I was tossing and turning and woke him up from his beauty sleep. But I couldn’t help it. Mix emotions of excitement and nervousness makes it hard to go back to bed. Soon after, I got up, got a cup of hazelnut coffee and got on my way.
Everyone at the workshop received a hand written note from Jasmine, also included are a notepad and a pen.
The whole morning were lectures in all aspects of wedding photography, emphasize on working smarter, more efficient and client relations, categorized by what Jasmine called eight components of branding. What really stuck with me was the idea that a wedding photographer can take the best photo when the photographer and the clients are completely comfortable with each other.
Shortly after lunch, we walk around for an outdoor photo session with the fabulous duo, Vern and Melinda.
Make up and hair are by Vivian Tran from All Made Up Team
By this time, it felt like 100 degrees outside. It was HOT! Vivian Tran from the All made up team was there to touch up Vern and Melinda’s faces, and our couple are great sports, didn’t compliant at all, and kept going until the end.
Jasmine made sure all of our questions are answered and wrapped up the day with awesome photoshop post processing techniques and explained her work flow. I walked away with wealth of information that will probably take me three weeks to digest and process. It was an awesome experience !
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great stuff Jenny! And I love the new look and site!
Beautiful Jenny!!!! You did a great job!
great stuff jenny!
Beautiful work, Jenny! I’m sure it was a fantastic workshop. -Mike
jenny i love how you did a great job at story telling here. you started with the gates open and went for it. I love the input you had during the workshop. As usual you are full of great advice and fun to hang with. Your photos are lovely as usual
Okay, again jealous!!! Jasmin is my ALL time favorite!!! You not only had your pictures done by her but also attended her workshop!!!!! Wow! I love your work and maybe someday I can meet you at one of these workshops.
Jasmine star’s work is nice, glad you have fun.
Each time I visit your site, I’m amazed !
I like what you do with the lighting. It’s so hard to get it right.