I had been looking forward to this workshop for about a year. Since the day I first saw the artistry in Scott photos I have wanted to learn how to shoot like that. My first workshop was learning about light in December in Pasadena. This workshop stretched me in a lot of was as a photographer. I felt like I was somewhat of the rookie of the group because there was so much I needed to learn, about off camera flash, posing models, locations etc.. But, I did learn with Scott's hands on help, we all stretched our abilities and came away much improved in our photography skills.

If you're into photography and want to get better at your craft, I can highly recommend attending one or more of Scott's Next Level Workshops... I have been to two so far and because I like to strive for excellence, I'll be back for more!

Another cool thing, you'll get to meet others from around the world who love photography as much as you do. We had a great group of people in the workshop and each of them are fine photographers that are getting better and better under Scott's instruction.

I really want to thanks our Models, Nina Nguyen and Vanessa Tsang from the UK, and our photography students/models Peggy Leung, Amber Hughes from Canada, plus Sarah Dawson and Janna Michelman from N. CA.

These are the ladies you see in the pictures below.

Peggy Leung










Amber Hughes






Nina Nguyen














Sarah Dawson










Jenna Michelman

Here is an explanation video of the content that will follow!



We were told to leave our cameras back at the Compassion school. So, I left my big Canon behind and snuck out my small FlipVideo camera. It's pretty shakey because I was trying to hide it and film while walking thus giving it that "Dateline" hidden camera feel. This was a pretty intimidating walk because our safety had to be negotiated with the drug lords of the area and we were told they couldn't gaurantee our safety if we were still there after the sun went down. We were still walking back at dusk.