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 need a photo AND the BTS shot.
See you on the show.
NOVEMBER 2021
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...
SUMMER 2022: 43: ASSIGNMENT FORTY THREE: THREE BOTTLE WINE SHOOT WITH SEPARATE ITEMS
This week we turn back to the three wine bottle shoot of a few weeks ago, but now instead of shooting one (or two) images to capture the scene, we are going to shoot all the items separately and assemble them in Photoshop. First, it will be important for us to...
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HOW TO GET AN EFFECTIVE PROMPT FOR GPT
SEO Strategies for Product Photographers in Memphis, TN 1. Keyword Research Identify relevant keywords and phrases that middle-sized businesses in Memphis, TN, are likely to search for when looking for commercial, tabletop, food, and beverage photography services....
LEARN TO USE CANVA
CANVA is becoming one of the major creative tools. These videos are very robust and well done. PLEASEPLEASEPLEASE START PLAYING WITH CANVA (Alternate tool is Adobe Express, and we will be looking at it as well.)
2022 SPRING: 52: ASSIGNMENT FIFTY TWO: “PLAY BALL”
"THE BOYS OF SUMMER" Baseball… played the world over, this game is one of heroes and villains, intrigue, and skill. “The Boys of Summer” is a term used for baseball players, and I think a play or movie too. No matter, we are using it as the title of this assignment....
2022 SPRING: 25: ASSIGNMENT FIFTY ONE: “LIGHT IS LIGHT IS LIGHT”
When we are going into this assignment we want to think about LIGHT. This is an image-story about light. Not just lighting, but light itself. The subject matter may be whatever you want it to be, but the idea of light, the capabilities of light, the structure and...
WATCH: I MAKE A SHOT IN THE STUDIO TWELVE YEARS AGO
Small studio shooting, what we used to call ‘tabletop’ is a favorite of mine. This is a very simple shoot with only one studio light on a boom. The subject is a decanter from the kitchen and some “ice chips” that we use for drink shots for a ‘crushed ice’ look. These...
2022 SPRING: 50: ASSIGNMENT FIFTY: WE DONE LOST OUR MARBLES
No, I haven’t lost mine… I want a shot of marbles. Easy to find, and easy to shoot… well, they are easy to find anyway. This is part still life, part concept. The article that is being illustrated is headlined: “We Haven’t Lost Our Marbles… Yet” - and it is a tech...
2022 SPRING: 49: ASSIGNMENT FORTY NINE: SPORTS DRINK AD
SPORTS DRINKS. All the rage and a multi-billion dollar business. And so many terrible ads... sigh. The creative team "I know what we'll do, we'll just put the bottle on a white background cause that's all we need to do and we aren't feeling all that creative today -...
2022 SPRING: 44: ASSIGNMENT FORTY FOUR: WET
IT IS TIME TO PREPARE YOUR PORTFOLIO AND YOUR BUSINESS TO GET STARTED. Below are links to the first two modules of Find Photo Clients NOW. The password is below the left link. Please take some time to work on these two very important modules. We will be referencing...
2022 SPRING: 40: ASSIGNMENT FORTY: CREATING AND PRODUCING A NARRATIVE USING PHOTOGRAPHY
THE NARRATIVE PHOTOGRAPH DUE NOVEMBER 15, 2022 FROM WIKIPEDIA Narrative photography is the idea that photographs can be used to tell a story. Allen Feldman stated that "the event is not what happens. The event is that which can be narrated". Because photography...