Comments on: Promoting Passion Video Blog: Create Your Own Magic

By: Innocents Abroad part 7 – Working with Nothing | Phil Ryan Photography

Thu, 27 Mar 2014 21:43:21 +0000

[…] into a snow storm. Rather than trying to describe it, you can see a demonstration on her blog “Promoting Passion.” We also played with using flour to create a smoke or mist effect. Fun, messy, and the poor […]

By: Heather K McManamy

Heather K McManamy — Fri, 14 Mar 2014 17:34:01 +0000

I wouldn’t normally comment, but after purchasing this Creative Live workshop, and having struggled for so long trying to find meaning in what I’m doing, it hit me in a flash of insight and I find it more than coincidental. I actually wrote a blog post about it, risking complete alienation from my peers:

“It occurred to me, and I wish I could remember what the trigger was, that I am a practitioner of magic. I am the one who journeys into another world and draws a door on the barrier to that world so that others might walk through, too. I’m a sorceress that just happens to break down barriers between worlds by finding the doors, the in-between spaces, using the magic of beauty and the skill of intuition. Yay! So fun!

Although, while I provide the space for casting the spell, you actually do the magic. It’s your brain that sees the image and creates the neurological link between standing in Reality-Land and being transported to the time and place of the image. In reality, it’s just chemicals and electricity, but therein lies the magic: your brain doesn’t know the difference between being there and looking at an image of being there. For all it knows, for all you know, you are there and that is reality. Magic!”

By: carmen carcamo

carmen carcamo — Fri, 14 Mar 2014 04:10:40 +0000

Just so you know i became a fan of your work like less than a year. And every time i am in need of some inspiration i turn to your Facebook page! I have learn so much through creative live in like 4 months ago. When i come to your page i love watching the videos bcs theres always something i learn from your process and is very much alike to my way of using photoshop!. and for that thank you!!! you have seriously giving me a way of thinking about teaching once i graduate graduate from graphic design! thank you for inspiring us with your work! 🙂

By: Tara Eveland

Tara Eveland — Wed, 12 Mar 2014 21:38:59 +0000

I love watching you work! So crazy that Andrea was right there, then gone haha! love this finished piece!

By: Jody McNary

Jody McNary — Tue, 11 Mar 2014 15:50:46 +0000

Oh wow this amazing to watch. Love it!!

By: Yavel

Yavel — Tue, 11 Mar 2014 10:20:09 +0000

Oh Shaden I would never thank you enough for inspiring me this much. Thanks to you I started with conceptual photography and fine art and since then i just cant stop learning and feeling passion about it. I love your work xx

By: Maria

Maria — Tue, 11 Mar 2014 09:54:43 +0000

To create my own magic I use diferent props or place some usual object in an unusual place.

It all starts with an inspiration, that comes with my life impressions, freams, film, music and people around.

It is so wonderful to realize a concept that has been in your head. In this respect, I feel like the world I imagine my self become a bit closer to me.

By: Izzy

Izzy — Mon, 10 Mar 2014 23:21:29 +0000

I love your photography, and it is so incredibly inspiring. I am consistently blown away by your surreal images.
I have a question: I’ve noticed that many photographers that shoot fine art primarily use Canons. Is there a reason why you prefer Canons to Nikons? Do you think that using one or the other drastically effects one’s photography?

By: Daniel Boga

Daniel Boga — Mon, 10 Mar 2014 20:52:15 +0000

OMG! This is how I feel when I was I little kid (and sometimes I still feel this way), daydreaming. I have many “magic worlds” like that, that I visited when escape from reality was needed to me. Brooke, you always speaks deeply with me with your work because is true and sincere, and show us that every one has a portion of magic inside.

By: Melanie

Melanie — Mon, 10 Mar 2014 20:12:17 +0000

I think my magic starts in my head. I see pictures all the time and sometimes they inspire me enough to want to create them in real life. Last weekend I created this (http://www.mmhewittphotography.com/blog/2014/3/6/brave) using your technique for shooting multiple images in a single setting that you shared a little bit ago, and it took me to a place that was completely about the world inside of me. I’m not the greatest at photoshop but that which I see in my head these days requires it of me. So I guess my noggin’ and photoshop is how I create my magic.

Thank you so much, Brooke, for helping the rest of us figure ourselves out with these inspiring exercises.