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Promoting Passion Week 81: Storytelling Collaboration, Week 1

Promoting Passion Week 81: Storytelling Collaboration, Week 1

Let’s collaborate on an art project! This is WEEK 1, so jump right in! Here is how it works.   WEEK 1 Write a story, true or not, in roughly one-two paragraphs. From those stories I will choose one for us to be inspired by, and the following week, we will all create an image (or any art!) based on that story. WEEK 2 Create art based on the chosen story. Submit it in the comments of my blog after…

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Promoting Passion Week 80: Technology and Imagination

Promoting Passion Week 80: Technology and Imagination

My dear friend Dave Brosha invited me to his house to speak at his inaugural event Land & See, combining landscape and portrait photography lessons laced with inspiration. It was fantastically awesome. Before I left for Prince Edward Island (I totally get why people vacation there!) I received an email about participating in Photo Plus this year in New York City. One thing that the email mentioned was that they were looking for bold images rich with color and that…

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Distraction-Free Editing

Distraction-Free Editing

Since I took my first picture when I decided I wanted to be a photographer until now, my ideas required image compositing. I’m a very no-fuss type of person, so I try to find the simplest methods of creating imagery that work for me. I love watching other artist’s processes because it shows insight into how they work, yet I rarely find myself implementing someone else’s workflow into my own. The reason is because I found a method that I…

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Promoting Passion Week 79: How to Make a Video

Promoting Passion Week 79: How to Make a Video

I decided to start creating video content about a year and a half ago when I realized a deep desire I had to connect more personally with my community. I had always loved writing back and forth with people on blogs or Facebook and the like, but I had never really broken that boundary of face to face communication. While creating videos and posting them on Youtube isn’t exactly face to face, it is still a way of showing who…

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Promoting Passion Week 78: Creating “The Weight of a Feather”

Promoting Passion Week 78: Creating “The Weight of a Feather”

The STORY A year ago I traveled to France to shoot in the most spectacular location I had ever seen. I got there, concepts planned, props in hand, and I shot all day long, for hours and hours straight. I took the images home, proud of what I had done, and yet I had no desire to edit them. The longer I waited the more I came to terms with the fact that I would never edit them. They had…

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