2020 SPRING CLASS HOME PAGE
EVERYTHING YOU NEED RIGHT HEREWOW! WE STARTED OUT AT THE SAME TIME THE PANDEMIC DID, AND WE PUSHED THROUGH TO THE END DESPITE THE LOCKDOWNS, THE SPIKES, THE UNREST, AND THE TURMOIL. AND NOW WE ARE HERE AT THE END. I CANNOT TELL YOU ALL HOW IMPORTANT YOU WERE TO MY WELLBEING THROUGHOUT THIS PAST YEAR+. YOU HAVE. I WILL MISS OUR MORNING AND EVENING MEETINGS.
YOUR LOGINS SHOULD BE ACTIVE IN THIS PROGRAM AS WELL AS THE 2021 SPRING, AND THE 2021 SUMMER (STARTING IN JUNE). YOU ARE OF COURSE WELCOME TO SIT IN AND FOLLOW ALONG WITH ANY CLASS YOU WISH TO. AND OF COURSE THERE WILL BE MORE OPPORTUNITIES TO MEET AS WE GO ALONG.
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU… AND HAVE A GREAT ADVENTURE OUT THERE MAKING GREAT IMAGES!
ANNOUNCING OPENINGS FOR THE MENTORSHIP GROUP.
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Cold call texts
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Brochures for explaining the value of photography (download and customize)
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Promotional ideas
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Business strategies
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Portfolio reviews
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Social media strategies
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Bidding exercises
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Support for answering RFP’s
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Peer support for motivation
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Access to all Project 52 Assignment roster and extras
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… and a hell of a lot more
REGISTRATION HERE:
ALL PROJECT 52 ALUMNI ARE WELCOME.
(PLEASE DO NOT REGISTER IF YOU ARE CURRENTLY IN AN ACTIVE P52 GROUP.)
FILE, UPLOAD, WEBINAR, AND WEEKLY VIDEOS
IMPORTANT VIDEOS
PAINTING WITH LIGHT: AARON JONES METHOD
LIGHT PAINTING WITH A HOSEMASTER BITDSorry, the last video never made it to YouTube. But I think you can get some great ideas from these. We have modern tools like Lume Cubes and Small Rig lights that can help us craft amazing light-painted images. Give it a shot and...
MAKE SURE YOU REQUEST TO BE ADMITTED TO THE FACEBOOK PRIVATE GROUP.
GOOD APPS FOR CREATING MOOD BOARDS:
Pinterest
Mood Board
Milanote
Niice
Canva
Pixieset
THE LIST:
This checklist is a good thing for you print out, laminate and keep with you when shooting. It is a deliberately detailed list of what we should be thinking about before we trip the shutter.
THE BUSINESS BOOK 2020
This is the current version of the Business Book. Finished October 2020.Version 2.0 There may be changes coming up, but not until Q2 of 2021. Download and enjoy.
Spring 2020 UPLOAD FORM
Remember to refresh the page between uploads.
IMAGE SIZE:
1200 pixels on the longest side.
LIGHTROOM:
Images saved at “Medium” JPG / 400K or less.
PHOTOSHOP:
SAVE FOR WEB>MEDIUM>50
NAMING CONVENTION
2020 SPRING Group | spring-2020-first-last-assignmentnumber.jpg *
EXAMPLE: spring-2020-don-giannatti-4.jpg
* assignnumber is numeral
BOTH CLASSES:
USE -a, -b, -c for appending multiple images.
EXAMPLE: spring-2020-don-giannatti-4-a.jpg, spring-2020-don-giannatti-4-b.jpg
THIS IS VITALLY IMPORTANT, SO PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU FOLLOW THESE CONVENTIONS.
PLEASE REVIEW NAMING CONVENTIONS BEFORE UPLOADING!
Our uploader has changed, but this one is very simple. Browse for the file and upload it. If you are not familiar with sizes and naming conventions, please see below.
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GLOBAL WEBINAR LINKS
2020 SPRING GROUP
WEDNESDAY MORNING WEBINAR LINK
8 AM PACIFIC
WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON WEBINAR LINK
5 PM PACIFIC
Saturday Mornings: OFFICE HOUR
6AM Pacific
(make up class) and Photo Business questions
https://zoom.us/j/683949932
Password: F1ndPh0t0N0w
This class is open to you as well as members of P52. Please review it when you have begun to put your book together and look for work. We will refer to it many times in the class, so becoming familiar with what is there is important.
PLANNING A CREATIVE ASSIGNMENT
TWO WEEKS OUT ASSIGNMENT
NEXT WEEK’S ASSIGNMENT
CURRENT ASSIGNMENT
SPRING 2020: 52: ASSIGNMENT FIFTY TWO : COKE REVISITED
NOTE: I HAVE ADDED A LIGHTING TUTORIAL FOR YOU ALL. HERE YOU GO. This will be fun. And challenging. Really challenging. WATCH: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=49&v=UvYuQ4Qyiqc Here is an article with images from the new Coke campaign. COKE...
SPRING 2020: 48: ASSIGNMENT FORTY EIGHT: FREE SHOOT WEEK
THREE OPTIONS FOR FREE SHOOT WEEK: Do something totally original to blow our minds! Redo an assignment you know you can do better now. Do an assignment you may have missed along the way. NO RULES. This is an opportunity to take a breather and cover old ground. Still...
SPRING 2020: ASSIGNMENT FORTY SEVEN: “THE ROOTS OF POWER”
A LARGE POINT OF PURCHASE DISPLAY VISUAL It means many things to a lot of people. From politics to personal to some sort of allegory for anything they like or dislike. For us it means… Gardening. For us, the “roots of power” is a garden shot in your style. It is to be...
LIGHTING CLASS MODULES: APRIL 2020
CURRENT ASSIGNMENT INFO
Assignments are posted on Saturday mornings, usually by Noon, Pacific. You have two weeks to create the image and submit it on the upload form. PLEASE CHECK the date of the assignment so you will know if you have enough time to do the current assignment, or go to the next assignment listed below that makes more sense for your time frame.
I look forward to seeing what you do with these real-world assignments.
Tips:
- Allow enough time to do the assignment correctly.
- If you are having some creative challenges, ask for help on the FB community.
- Search Google for examples of what you are trying to do.
- Sketch with pen and paper, or camera to find your image.
- Gather all of your props and styling tools before you begin the shoot.
- If possible, make sure you can leave your set up until after you have received some feedback from the Facebook group, or you know you got the shot.
- Sketch/photograph and measure your set – you must remember to do a behind the scenes shot (BTS) so you can upload it with your image. BTS shots are a big part of the success we have at P52.
USE THESE PRODUCTION SHEETS FOR MANAGING YOUR WORK.
“What I’ve Learned So Far”
My book on a life in photography is ready for you to download and enjoy. Just click the link and save it to your desktop.
Stories, information, opinion, and more about the creative life and how to deal with many of the distractions that arise.
What I’ve Learned So Far (soon to have a new name… this one is not working.)
HOW THIS ALL WORKS
HOW TO SHOOT AN ASSIGNMENT
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES:
THE BASICS OF LIGHTING
This set of blog posts are the basics of understanding light in a way that you may not be thinking about now. I call it Subject Centric Lighting, and it means that we think about the way subjects deal with the light by reflecting it back to the camera. Go here.
IF YOU ARE NOT COMFORTABLE WITH YOUR LIGHTING, THIS SET OF 9 CLASSES WILL HELP YOU IMMENSELY
SUBJECT CENTRIC LIGHTING
LIGHTING COURSES AT UDEMY (NO COST)
These courses are free and will really help you to learn some lighting and how to use a lightmeter.
THE BUSINESS BOOK
This book will guide you through a lot of self-awareness and business-related challenges. It is yours with this class. Please do not distribute the book to anyone.
THE TWELVE DAYS OF PROJECT 52: PLEASE READ
12 Days of P52: Day One
We begin our journey soon. Delve into these posts with an open mind and a desire to prepare. Project 52 Pro is an amazing journey - this is sort of heping you create a roadmap for your work. Today's discussion is on what it means to be a commercial photographer. Many...
12 Days of P52: Day Two
Let's talk gear for a few minutes. Photographers and camera gear are inseparable. The cameras, lenses, lights and stands we use are the tools of our profession. And we need to be able to trust them to deliver our vision the way we want it to be seen. s commercial...
12 Days of P52: Day Three
My Critique Style and Why I Think It Works. I am not a blustering academic who takes delight in running down student works. We know the type. "I cannot believe this drivel was turned in. The photograph is a jumble of terrible east coast aesthetic mixed with a terribly...
12 Days of P52: Day Four
Important Websites for Your Bookmarks There are a lot of websites out there for consumer shooters, and a lot of sites by those wanting to sell you stuff. This is a list of Professional Photography sites that are for commercial and editorial photographers. Some are...
12 Days of P52: Day Five
< HOME < Being Deliberate in Making Images One of the biggest differences between what we do as commercial photographers and hobbyists, PJ's. consumer shooters and others is that we are far more deliberate. A single shot may take all day... or longer - to...
12 Days of P52: Day Six
Sketch / Notebooks I am a big believer in sketching out image ideas. And you don't have to be an artist to do so. Remember, these notes are for your eyes an brain to scan and understand, not for hanging on gallery walls. From concept preparation to lists of props...
12 Days of P52: Day Seven
How to Approach the Assignments This is a very important part of this process. You are assigned an image to do every week, but you will have two weeks to produce the image. Our first assignment comes out on September 4, 2016, and it will not be reviewed for two weeks....
12 Days of P52: Day Eight
What Is Your Style? We all hear so much about photographer's styles, and how important it is to develop one. And it really is important. However, I don't think we 'develop' a style going forward, we find our style looking back. Let me explain. Trying to 'develop' a...
12 Days of P52: Day Nine
Info on the Advanced Class NEW CLASSES DISREGARD THIS PAGE. MORE INFO ON THIS CLASS WILL BE AT THE END OF YOUR YEAR.
12 Days of P52: Day Ten
On Inspiration Being inspired to create work is a magnificent state of cognitive excitement. There is simply nothing like it. The adrenaline flows, the synapses fire, and the world seems to be infinitely exciting. It is the stuff of our most creative dreams. But it...
12 Days of P52: Day Eleven
WEBINARS AND WEBINAR ETIQUETTE. We use ZOOM because it is the easiest and best across all platforms. It also allows me to record and save the video / audio components. Rules for best usage: Built-in Mics sort of suck unless you have a fairly new computer with noise...
12 Days of P52: Day Twelve
And here we are at the beginning. A group of people bound by a love of imagery, design, processes, art, communication, visuals, cameras, gear, and the idea that working for ourselves may actually be something valuable in this place in time. I have been self-employed...