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…
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…
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…
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…
If there is one thing in the world I love more than anything else, it is helping people in any way shape or form. I don’t know if this week’s video will be of any help or not, but I sure did try! So today I’m sharing and editing tutorial on two different aspects of my creative process: creating shadows and saving images for print. When I asked online about the top techniques that I could share in a video,…