Fearless Class 2024
"Moments Moments Moments" is back!
We want to share our experience and knowledge with you to help you become better wedding photographers in an intensive 2-day class. This "Moments Moments Moments" class focuses on documentary wedding photography, but it offers much more. We blend life philosophies with essential photography techniques, blending fragmented teachings into a cohesive perspective. Our goal is to help you improve and become your best. Some of the topics that we will examine in this intimate, intense, and sharing class of two days are: - Understanding the fundamentals of light, composition, and moment - Challenging conventional wedding photography norms - Becoming a complete photographer - Viewing photographs with a critical mind - Evaluating without judgment - Cultivating useful photographic instincts - Thinking like a photojournalist - Using both the head and the heart - Taking risks - Harnessing creativity - Resisting imitation - Aligning life with photography - Striving for balance - Being honest with ourselves - Making profound changes - Chasing dreams - Attaining goals - Discovering your Fearless heart - Accepting vulnerability - Fighting insecurities - Communicating with clients What the class will not cover: - Demonstrating how to photograph pretty models - Post-processing techniques - Anything related to SEO - Magical photo tips and tricks We'll bring humor, wit, and innovative teaching methods, ensuring an engaging learning experience. We're committed to answering all your questions with honesty and openness. We will work extensively with your photos in exercises and intense photo critiques because this class is about you and your work. This Fearless Class is the class that we wish we had the opportunity to take early on in my career had it been offered. We hope it will equip you with the insights needed to embark on your path to constant learning and improvements. Let's begin this journey.UTRECHT
The class will be from 9:30 - 5:00 pm on October 8-9, 2024 at Kunstkamer Utrecht https://www.kunstkamerutrecht.nl/ Class is limited to 20 students and will be conducted in English.895€
The price covers only the class and does not include travel, or lodging. While some meals may be provided, they are not guaranteed. We do not charge tax or VAT. Tickets are non-refundable, but you may transfer your ticket to another student if you notify us. If the workshop is canceled for reasons beyond our control, you will receive a refund for the amount paid for the ticket.Huy and Tyler have been teaching classes and workshops together for many many years. Here are some words from their recent students:
"You and Tyler spoke about something that for me is very very important about the ethic in photography. I really enjoyed to see how I consider my self in the spectrum of this and it has been very useful for me because after this class I had two weddings and I forced my self to stay in my spectrum and tried to resist at reflections and to keep my 'photographer hat' rather to switch with my 'wedding photographer hat'. The experiment was so funny and helpful! Such an inspiring day. I never been so inspired for too many time! I had a lot of fears, I had a lot issues and right now I've decided to step out and fight it! I need it to do it so for my family!
Thank you again Huy for your words! I do really hope to meet you as soon as possible. Say a huge thank you to Tyler too! That guys is really awesome as a man and as a photographer!"
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"Finally after about two weeks I was able to absorb the psychological blow of the Fearless Class. These were two intense and fantastic days that I will carry forever in my heart. I watched you while you were explaining, I saw in you the joy and the love for what you do ... Fearless * without fear * a term that after your lesson made me realize that it is precisely the fear of opening up that limits my shots ...the fear of letting me go that does not make me express as I want ... My not connecting the mind to the heart, not thinking before shooting. Things that I will try to correct from now on...Taking a picture means seizing a moment with the emotions associated with it that will not come back ... I did and I still do a lot of mistakes and I'll want to do it again for the chance to correct... I hope to see you again soon! Thank you for what you and Tyler have given us."
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"Two things that were eye-openers for me and were truly brilliant. The critique session. By comparing your images with everyone else top 100! It's upping the level by crazy. I looked at my own photos in a new light, and for that, I am truly grateful. I kind of feel ashamed of the way I payed so little attention to my own work and know I have a world of improvement. Only that was totally worth the trip. Finally, I saw the Huy I thought I expected. You care. I know you care. You might be a bit stricter as a person than I thought, but in your core, you truly want to help others.... I'm not you. I'm not a special photographer. But my heart is true. I need to be patient, learn more, improve, I need to, in order to have the chance to help others.
To sum it up; It was subtle. It wasn't mind-blowing like some Fearless speeches are. But it goes so much deeper. It brings us all back to the core. To the basics. To our love of photography. Thank you Huy."
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"-you and Tyler together: professionals, very giving, friendly and authentic
-the workshop was really focused on the topic
-the class was small and intimate
-the feeling was a family feeling
I think it was a great workshop Huy - I felt lucky and grateful to be there with all of you, and I mean it."
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"I have never experienced this kinda intimate workshop. Even though I thought I would be overwhelmed, I ended up being calm and responsive. I liked intimate atmosphere, I liked we all went to lunch and gotten a chance to hang up. Your hosts also did fantastic job, big thumb up. I felt secure, confident, hearing lots of stuff I've already heard/known before, stuff I've already felt, stuff I'm already doing but wasn't aware of it... So it can never be bad to shake it all once again, you always take/make something new. And it can never the same, because we're never the same, like a river, floating, changing.
Overall impressions are wow, and wow with longterm release. I appreciate humor in general and resonate with both of your sense of humor. Most impressive was a statement that we're not there to photograph but to think. Boring angle is something so perfectly described, it explains me why some of my shots don't work. My aforementioned personal fight is being rewarded with fact that without any pretension this workshop helped me realize those stars that you're admiring up high are in fact not that far away from you, not unreachable. Especially when you've slowly decided to leave your rocky shell and dared to dream big. It showed me we're all sometimes insecure and vulnerable, make bad decisions, fall down. It helped me with my freedom of expression, breaking my walls, accepting which kinda freak I am, loving and appreciating who I am, and all that jazz. I think that is something money cannot pay. :) Thank you for your communication, I hope this group will rise more and more and I'm looking forward to all the moments to be born out of it."
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"At the beginning I had no idea what to expect so I decided to have no expectations which I believe it's the best to do if you want to open your mind. And what I received in return from this class was so much and even so much more compared to what I could have ever imagined.
The class was masterfully well balanced between the experiences of Huy and Tyler, was actually like watching a perfect dance. The content arrived straight to the point. The way you explained how to report "moments" and also how actually compose them in a photo was great. The examples you showed were perfect. The sense of what means to be Fearless that I could feel for the entire workshop made me think a lot."
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"This is a workshop which is worth the money in total and even more. It triggered me in many many ways and its easy and simple explained and directly applicable."
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"I flew across the ocean to go to Tyler and Huy's Fearless Class in Rotterdam. It was worth it. This class got me out of a photography rut I'd been in. I felt as if I'd been at the same level for several years and was doing quite well in business, but hadn't been advancing in skill or style. Somehow, Tyler and Huy were able to give me a confidence boost that I am good at a lot of things, while firmly but nicely teaching me what I needed to improve upon. The next wedding I shot after the Fearless Class I felt like my brain worked completely differently. I noticed a huge difference in my images right away and I'm so happy I'll be able to capture more incredible, real moments for my clients."
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"When I heard that we were going to sit in a class for hours I thought "Oh no ! I thought a workshop was suppose to be both listening & practicing ! I don't have that much concentration when there is no action.... " The thing is.... how could you learn about the moment if the moment was fake, created only for the workshop? so of course there was NOT going to be any photos taken of a fake wedding. Instead we got real constructive informations, real analysis of who we are as a photographer (and person) and who we want to be, real photos to learn from, real experience from our teachers. Real Learning about real moments photography.
If you are ready to take a step back and look at your work, and improve the way you see / do things. You'll be at the right place. I was stuck for the last 2-3 years, my work was good, my clients never complained but I wasn't happy. My work became a routine. Weddings were still fun... but they were stressful and redundant. I now already have done 5 weddings since the workshop.... the 2 first ones were "better" but I was still a lot on my old habits / autopilot. Then....the magic started to happened. The last 3 weddings I tried a lot more to apply what I have learned and just to be aware of that was already a lot. You won't change the way you work from A to Z in 5 weddings, but your work will improve and you'll think of wedding as fun again and creative ! That is what it did to me anyways.
Thank you so much Huy & Tyler for your time , knowledge, energy, authenticity & fearless hearts!"
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"The class goes so far beyond superficiality as to rewire your own perception of beauty. After the class you will have a whole new appreciation of what defines a moment, and how identifying it will help you create the most meaningful photographs for your clients.
You can ask anything, there are no big egos, and there is a genuine desire from the educators to help you grow. They know one class won't see a complete change overnight, but they provide you with the tools to mature and become the photographer you want to be. They are teaching for the long-term gains."
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"Super high quality and recommend, I leaned thousands things from thousands ways from them. They have the skill to transfer their experience and understanding of wedding photography to you, depending on moments moments moments, but not only...After the class I think more about pure core of wedding photography, review my own work try to figure out a way to be better, not a better person of anybody else, just a better person of myself. I started to rethink the reason which make me stand out, maybe that's not the reason which would have the ability to drive me longer, deeper and higher, I need to do something more. They don't teach you how to use flash light, they teach you how to use your mind. They are the super combination mixed well with professional ,wisdom, enthusiasm and most important is they are really true. If there is that kind of workshop or class you have to take once in your life, it is!"
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"Looking to improve my real moments in my wedding photography, the Fearless class in Rotterdam happened at just the right time for me. I have attended several workshops and conferences and usually people teach "the same" stuff and a lot of the content is something you have heard before. But Huy and Tyler helped me to open up my photojournalistic approach even more than I thought.
The group setting was very nice. Everyone got several of their photos critiqued and we did many exercises in smaller groups that taught me to be even more aware of stuff that I thought I was very aware of from before.I left the workshop with a better mindset to approach a wedding day with and I'm super pumped to already having improved my work in the weddings I have photographed since."
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"I don't know how can I thank you enough about the Workshop. Thank you for everything Huy, for making the class happen, for accepting me at the last minute, for the wonderful experience, for working so hard to improve the class' quality even when its happening. I believe all of us can see how tired you are and understand how hard you try to make us a better photographer in just days. As Tyler said, the class is not about photography, you cant imagine how much the class change my mind, about everything. Now I know what i need to do. Thank you Huy for LIGHT UP our passion !!!"
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"I want to say thank you!! I learned so much in Texas about how to look to pictures. I understand better what good pictures are! We really took my time to look to all my pictures back home. Last year I did not have any believe in my pictures anymore, but now I feel my pictures again."
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"The workshop I attended in Florence has taught me to distinguish a good photo from an impacting photo. And especially changed the way I look at my own work. I still have a long road to follow to become the photographer I want to be, but what I have learned from being a Fearless Photographer is that to have fun while working hard and to enjoy the journey."