The One Day workshop will never be the same. John Michael Cooper a.k.a. "the godfather of dress trashing" along with Dalisa Cooper of altF will attempt to reinvent and change what is to be expected out of the one day photography workshop. John Michael will take his approach of busting paradigms in wedding photography and apply it to this "not for the faint of heart" one day workshop altF style.

For 32 days John and Dalisa Cooper will travel via an RV across the country and back to visit and teach their brand of business, art, and style in 6 cities and one small town.
F.A.Q.'s

Q: What will be taught at the workshop?
A: Though most of the format will be very flexible to adjust to the environment we will be teaching in at each city, we will be going over in detail, our simple, untraditional posing method along with our use of natural and very unnatural lighting techniques. Time will also be spent shooting and photoshopping.

Q: What will the workshop be like?
A: Each day 9 am to 5 pm will be limited to only 15 participants and will be hosted in each city at either a photographers home or studio. The limited number of attendees will allow us to be very hands on and allow for a lot of one on one instruction. We will be totally accessible for questions and extra help before, during and after each 9 to 5 session.

Q: What's the cost?
A: Tuition is $425 per person.

Q: Will there be models to shoot?
A: Yes, we will have live models to shoot.

Q: Who are you?
A: John Michael Cooper, 21 year photography veteran shooting things his own damn way. From high volume Vegas style weddings to high end events across the country, John first came to national attention because of his unconventional approach along with a dress unfriendly conceptual art that inspired the current Trash the Dress craze that is sweeping the world.

Dalisa Cooper, with her many years of experience in the publishing and marketing end of the wedding industry, is the business end of altF. Dalisa also needs to be there to keep John focused and somewhat in line. John and Dalisa Cooper are also co-founders of the highly coveted antiworshops.

Q: Should i ask my mommy for permission?
A: No, absolutely not. Face it, your mom doesn't like us because of our reputation for mayhem. If she new you wanted to be a bad ass wedding photographer, you would be grounded.

Q: Will there be any Dress Trashing?
A: Dress unfriendly, unconventional posing, and non-traditional environments are just a natural extension of most of our sessions.

Q: Tell us more about the Locations of the workshops.

(*****JUST ADDED****)
Dallas, Texas is our first stop where we will be hosted by JVS and Anne of jvspictures.com


Austin, Texas our 2nd stop where we will be hosted by antiworkshop alumni Eric Doggett of doggettstudios.com.

Our 3rd Stop will be Memphis, TN where antiworkshop alumni Jake Morrow of Studio J will be our host.

4th City will be Atlanta, GA where our host will be the very cool Zack Arias of used film studio. Zack also has his own workshop series - the very popular One Light Workshops.

After Atlanta we are going to cruise up to Lancaster, PA where we will be hosted by the uber cool Wiebners, Joel and Rita of theweibners.com. The Wiebners are also the creators of The Traveling Shovel.

Our 6th stop will be just outside of Boston hosted by the "supah insane" jeff newum of jeffnewcum.com.

From Boston we will head back across the country to park ourselves smack in the middle where we will be host - in my parents small home town of Athens, IL.

2nd to the last stop will be Kansas City, MO where we will be hosted by yet another cool anti alumni Jason Domingues of www.dominguesphotography.com

The last stop we hope will be Denver, CO.
Details coming soon.