Nicole’s Classes Photo 101 Book
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In the photography world there are great photographers and there are great photographers who help others to be great photographers. An amazing talent, popular blogger and creative teacher, Nicole Hill Gerulat has made quite a name for herself not only because of her stunning photography but because of her willingness to share secrets and tips to making great photos. Since 2007, Nicole has shared her talents through teaching classes around the world and soon she’ll launch Nicole’s Online Classes so stay tuned.
Aside from Ms. Gerulat’s classes those who are interested in learning more about photography now have a new tool they can use to sharpen their skills: Nicole’s Textbooks. Photography 101, Photoshop 101 and Illustrator 101 are the newest additions to Nicole’s lineup and can be used alone or along side classes for extra help. The books are a perfect 7×7″ size so you can carry them along in your camera bag. Photography 101 is shipping now and covers the same topics discussed in her live classes: manual exposures, composition, lenses, white balance, posing and natural lighting.
I love my camera because it fuels my creative fire and ignites a love for learning and enjoying the world around me. There is something different about this world and the people in it through a great lens. That is why I love photography.
I have always loved pictures and the art of photography. But it became a clear passion of mine when my (now 10 yr old) was diagnosed with autism and I took a black and white photography class. I learned to develop film, the basics of photography and that I really could leave the weight of the world aside for awhile and escape into the world of photography. It’s been a full on love affair ever since (8 yrs ago). It’s my happy place. ;)
I love Nicole’s work- I’d love to get my hands on her book. Thanks!
I’ve always loved taking pictures, even as a child. And now that I have combined the proper camera and a bit of technical knowledge, my results are that much more lovely and creative. I’d love the chance to learn more, more, more!!
goodness where do I even start!! I have ALWAYS had a camera with me ever since I was little….there are moments to catch and I am always prepared! Photography is so wonderful because it is like an inspiration journal it is everything that you find beautiful it expresses you and what you find intriguing, exciting and is a way to show expression and communication but you don’t need to say a word.
Oh my! I need this book! I have a DSLR and no clue how to use it.
I do well enough with my point-and-shoot, though, as long as the natural light is helpful. I think the thing I love about photography is that it’s not necessarily the easiest form of art, but it is the most accessible…nearly everyone has a camera. With a little help and practice, we can all become proficient. We won’t all be masters, but we can all make something we’re proud of with a camera in our hands.
My favorite type of camera to use is an instant polaroid. With the film costing as much as it does, every photo has to be carefully thought out. And then when everything is perfect, you click and wait and pray that it will turn out like you imagined. And when it does, high fives and cheers ensue.
The best part about my camera is that it captures moments I don’t want to forget. With this book I think I’ll learn how to use it better… I would love to be a wedding photographer one day, and capture moments that others don’t want to forget. :)
i love being able to take photos of my family that I’ll cherish forever. My family is the most important thing in the world to me so I love to capture our special moments together.
In photography, your picture doesn’t have to look the way you originally wanted it to look. There are no such things as mistakes, unless you accidentally set the shutter speed to 40 seconds in daylight (which I’ve done). If you did something slightly off, your result might surprise you. You’re not making something from scratch, you’re capturing what you see. It all depends on your point-of-view. If you think your subject looks good, then it looks good in a photograph, too.
And that’s why I heart photography. <3
Just like everyone else, photography is simply capturing a memory that produces a story. And I do love a good story.
I love my camera and photography because my daughter is growing up too fast!
Because I want to remember every fleeting moment of my baby’s life. She just turned 1-year-old, and I can’t hardly believe that this is the same tiny girl I brought home from the hospital. I’m so thankful for each picture I have capturing her first year, and wish I knew how to use my camera better so that the pictures were that much better. I’ve got big hopes for year 2!
I have loved Nicole’s blog for a long time and would love to win this book! I love my camera because everytime I stand behind it I capture a small moment that reminds me to cherish this time while my kids are small.
Because no person will ever stand where I am standing at this exact moment and I was to remember how special that is.
Photography transformed me. It’s what I eat, sleep & breathe…aside from my marriage and children. You see, I’m working on making it my second career after a life in the theatre. I NEVER thought in a million years that I would find something as satisfying as working on stage. So, for that, I am grateful and totally in love with my camera!
I have a tumultuous love affair with my camera, sometimes I conquer it and make images that capture what I want, what I see, what I want to see, how I feel. Other times it beats me to submission saying “You need to learn more about me before you press my buttons!”
I love my camera because it helps me capture the beauty that is all around me from nature to architecture to the moments in life that no one wants to forget.
Taking pictures makes me happy! I love photography because I get to capture things that are beautiful to me.
My love affair stems on the fact that I can get lost in my own world looking through that lens as I love to capture the small moments & views of our fast paced life not everyone takes the time to stop & notice. What isn’t so great about photography!?!? :) Love it all!
Knowing that my children will have memories for every stage of their lives, every trip, every birthday party, every fun evening at home. I wish I had the same from my childhood.
I have a love affair with my camera because it is a way for me to connect with people. I believe that everyone has a unique life story and through taking pictures I get to be a small part of that story and try to capture the essence of who each person is; that is what’s great about photography.
I love my camera because while I’ve always been a shutterbug – I never really had the ability to experiment until I saved up for my Nikon D70. I love learning with it now!! I should have taken a photography class in college but there was no money for anything outside of my major – and in those days even film was too great an expense to tinker with. Compared to today, I have months of my life where I never took a picture because it was a shame to waste film. Imagine such nonsense!!! Photography is priceless!!!!!!
I love photography – especially children and infant portraiture because it gives the ability to freeze a beautiful moment and make it a memory.
because photography moves people. and it completely changed the world as we know it. most people would be oblivious to life beyond themselves without photography.
i am a perfectionist who longs to be an artist. photography seems to be the most literal capturing of life in art form. i love the way life looks through my lens and what i learn when i am behind it.
I love how photography captures the sweetest moments of my little babe so I can always remember them!
Why do you have a love-affair with your camera? because it’s hot and has a great body!
What is so great about photography? what better way to document life than with pictures. plus, you can be super creative, and who wouldn’t love that! pictures are the way that i remember.
It’s a challenge and with so many photography styles out there it’s an every day changing process of finding your OWN (not somebody else’s!), going with it and developing your skill with your camera technically and creatively.
I have a love affair with my camera, because it is still such a huge mystery to me. Every time I use it, I learn more about it.
I’ve always loved art but I’m not as talented as I’d like. Photography captures beauty and all you have to do is click a button and have an eye for what looks good.
i adore my camera because all those tangled messes of ideas floating around in my head can be shared with the people i love. photography is an amazing outlet for emotion & passion and i love, love, love that the journey is never over, you have never learned everything. there is always something new and amazing to be discovered.
Oh goodness, the love affair with my camera grows stronger every day. Just like you fall in love with someone for showing you great, beautiful, and often new things, you can fall in love with a camera for the same reasons. My camera goes places with me like a an old pal and can even make some of the strangest things, like toe jam, beautiful if I want it to. By the way, my cameras name is benjamin. Sometimes like a “Mr. Benjamin”.
I love to capture the moments that mean something to me. I also love to find the beauty in everyday things, and think that my camera does that very well :)
My camera is my best friend (as long as I keep the batteries charged). I love discovering what my camera can do–more recently, I learned how to catch star patterns. Love it!
Photos capture a moment in time that allows the viewer to travel even further with memories associated with the pictorial recored.
I am obsessed with my camera because it allows for a different perspective. Each lens is a fresh look at something you might walk past every day and never think twice about. But once you capture it through your camera…then it becomes art. The possibilities and options within the realm of photography are endless, really. Capturing moments, fragments of time, and things you love just as they are…it’s truly a gift.
to capture a memory and illustrate a history.
to create something that exists nowhere else.
to push myself to pay attention to the little things.
because life is beautiful.
I love my camera, because it can capture the connection between people. Make long-lasting memories. My brain is not able to do that.. :(
my camera allows me to capture and preserve a moment in time impregnated with feeling and emotion – life! with photographs i am able to highlight seemingly mundane or insignificant events and remind the world (and myself) how beautiful these moments are and how important they are. i love taking photographs of people. i feel a deep connection, unusual and profound, to the subjects in my pictures – especially if i don’t know them. as if their spirit is captured in my photograph, and it’s tangible.
I have a love affair with my camera because it allows me to freeze precious moments in time and remember them forever.
Everyone has a beautiful answer, it seems, but mine is pretty simple. I started crazy amounts of photography when our first daughter was born. I think the beauty of a child is like a gateway into the beauty of the world. Soon I had a new rule – take at least three photos every day. Since then, it’s practical, tangible things that motivate me to photograph – this past fall it was bees. I had a door phase too.
For me, photographing is a way of being mindful and of loving life – but that happens in a daily, small way – one photo at a time.
My love affair with my camera is complicated. We just don’t jive. I keep breaking up with it then finding ways to get back together. I see other people with their beautiful composition and their eye for light and color, and I get so jealous. I want my camera and I to have the same relationship. I want to be able to capture the beauty around me through a lens. I want to translate perfect soft light on my children’s smiling faces to a glossy piece of paper, but it always comes through flat and blah. I wonder sometimes if I just don’t understand my camera and maybe never will. Is there hope for us? I’d like to think so.
My love affair with the camera starts with my ability to capture the uniqueness of each memory and to have access to that memory forever.
My love affair with my camera started the first time that I was able to capture my daughter’s image in a way that perfectly expressed her. The crisp blue eyes, the delicate blush on her cheek, and that impossibly adorable baby smile. But really what is so great about all of this??? Nothing except that photography has allowed me to see and experience my children and my life in a new more suble, more agreeable, more appreciative way. I try to achieve this everytime I take a picture.
Great questions!
I feel that my love affair with camera started when I realized that camera can catch actual moments in your life. I don’t have many pictures of myself and family growing up and absolutely not one picture of my mother and I when I was in high school.
My mother passed away my senior year and I hated that I will never have a picture of us together when I was a teenager. So since the realization of how important a single photograph can be, I picked up a camera and I try to catch almost every event/weekend in a photograph.
Every time a take a photograph and look through my pictures I feel that they show who I am and who I was at the time. WIth all my pictures I am trying to my photograph books, so I can sit down with my children one day and show them who I am. And if there is a moment when I can’t be with my family/husband/children, they will always have these photographs to remember me and who I was!
i love my camera because it forces me to look at things in a different way – what looks good in real life may not translate into an amazing photography, and vice versa. having said that, i’m still learning to really be willing to walk around taking lots of pictures of the everyday in hopes of coming out with one really amazing one.
having all these photographs as a record of my life allows me to look back on certain days, even if nothing special happened then, and relive that moment to a certain extent.
…Because, let’s face it: everyday life can sometimes be cold and harsh. But see, I’m a romantic. I like to believe that under sepia skies…or atop super-saturated beds of flowers…or on black and white winding water-slicked roads, the world is one of unexpected romance, imagination and possibility.
To escape from every-day life consisting of footing ledgers, balancing books, and meeting deadlines to a place where time stops and each angle I gaze at becomes a potentially mystifying experience– this is what I live for. It’s my own time, and it’s opportunity for me to have something I never could–a creator. My life has always been filled with resolving acceptance that I was the left-brained child while my siblings surpassed me in their love of music, drawing, beauty, art of every shape and form. I longed to participate but always thought it wasn’t “in me”. I’m still an amateur, but I believe the beauty of photography is that to begin is what brings you joy, along with every other step along the way.
People don’t see what I see, until I put it in a box and show it to them. Then we smile, because we understand each other, finally.
OMgoodness! I’ve never had a love affair with cameras. They’ve always frustrated me, in fact. But I have kids, and I have an Etsy shop, and I find myself taking lots of pictures. I use the easy settings on my point-and-shoot to take pictures of everything, and what I have found is that I have a love of composition and color, and of capturing a mood. It’s inspired me to learn more about the camera as a tool, and I’d love an opportunity to do so from reading these books!
I have been in love with photography for almost 10 years now. I love the freedom of being able to stop time and capture any moment you see. I also love escaping to the darkroom and making the pictures come alive. For me, there is not greater satisfaction than watching my photo slowly appear in the developer solution.