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Got to hang out with the CreativeLive team during a dry-run for filming Lance Keimig and Ian Norman for their Night Photography week.
As it turned out, this was the night the Chinese rocket booster from Chang Zheng 7 chose to re-enter the atmosphere over CA and NV. Not only were we in one of the darker places in California, but I was with 3 very talented videographers with Sony A7S camera bodies!
This shot was from later that night, but I thought it was appropriate. Videos of the rocket booster re-entry can be seen here (I'm the guy that earned them a NSFW warning)
earthsky.org/human-world/spectacular-rocket-reentry-over-...
Explored! #35 on 28 Oct 2012. I took this photo out of the Canoe Studio window during the live broadcast of Creative Live - NYC. I used the Edge 80 with my FujiFilm X-Pro1 camera!
3 Days of Giveaways for my new CreativeLive class (cr8.lv/fine-art-series) totaling over $3,000! Leave a comment saying if you'd rather be in the audience or on the stage to win a CreativeLive Creator Pass valued at $299 which gives you access to over 1500 classes for one year, including my new one!
Some of you know that I have pretty extreme social anxiety. I've never understood how to interact with people or make friends, how to just have a good time and relax. On a scale of 1-10, I'm usually an 11, bursting with excessive energy - nervous or creative, usually. Teaching has been the single way that I've been able to cultivate community, talk to people, form friendships, and get rid of my nerves. I'd rather talk to a room of 5,000 people rather than have a single conversation. I might be backwards, but to me, connection has always felt most natural when I'm teaching. So thank you for allowing me space and support to cope with life, form bonds with you, and guide you through the education I put out there. I hope it is as valuable to you as it is to me.
Can you please help me celebrate my new class "Creating a Fine Art Series" by doing 2 things? 1) Comment here to enter the giveaway, and 2) Click the link cr8.lv/fine-art-series to RSVP for the FREE premiere of my class on Tuesday at 9am PST. It will replay for free for 24 hours.
Image 1 of 4 of a series of landscape photographs of the setting winter sun over the ocean beach at North Cove, Washington.
Much of this series is about complacency, about being trapped in your circumstances without realizing there is a way out. This image really embodies that for me, particularly in the way that we hold on to what we know even when the world around us is shifting; even when we are upside down and lost. To prefer familiarity rather than outside dangers. To rather rot in comfort than find fear in the unknown.
Or at least, that is my personal fear. That is what I see happening around me. That is what I won't let happen in my life.
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"Circuit"
Model: Christin Purcell @jinxedorchid
Part of the series "Interval" for "Fine Art Photography: The Complete Guide" on Creative Live. To see how each image was made: www.creativelive.com/class/fine-art-photography-the-compl...
A photograph of the southern span of the Deception Pass Bridge looking west at sunrise. I found this vantage point while parked on Pass Island (between the two spans) and hiking down the rocky cliffs just above the waters edge.
...Back to sharing the series "Interval" from my Creative Live class!
Sand. The passing of time. Becoming dust.
"Becoming dust is no threat to the phoenix born from the ash.”
― Curtis Tyrone Jones
Thank you Creative Live crew for the enormous effort of getting hundreds of pounds of sand into this little room, and then, fast as could be, getting it back out and then again when you donated it to a playground. The whole of it made me so happy. Seeing this scene come to life thrilled me. And I challenged myself, too, to use this little room with such direct light. I'm so glad I did.
"Fragments"
Model: Christin Purcell @jinxedorchid
Watch this being made in "Fine Art Photography: The Complete Guide" www.creativelive.com/class/fine-art-photography-the-compl...
We sawed the bed in half and brought it to the abandoned house I was shooting in with the intent of propping it up on a wall. I quickly realized there were no walls big enough for the bed, so I had to come up with a plan B immediately to keep the filming day moving along at pace. I decided to do this shoot outside instead of inside, making it the only outdoor image of the series.
These moments are the best for an artist, where you are forced to think deeply about your message and adjust your plans to best deliver your intention. The field provided a natural, clean backdrop for the bed and followed in line with nature taking over these man-made things. It also gave me a different angle to play with, and gave our model room to explore her pose. Though simple, I ended up quite fond of this image <3
"Cardinal"
Model: Rachel Randall @duostraightup
To see how it was made: www.creativelive.com/class/fine-art-photography-the-compl...
Another photo from the time travel series. I finished a Joel Grimes workshop and I am applying what I learned.
I totally missed #WorldPhotographyDay yesterday, but I'm remedying that today with this celebration. For the sake of uplifting on such an important day for so many of us, please tag someone you admire in the photography field.
Photography has been my life for a decade. From the first time I took a self-portrait in a small apartment in Philadelphia to now, still taking self-portraits in my more comfortable home in Arizona, I have loved each second of how photography has transformed me.
Photography gave me a clear voice - not just a voice, because that I already had - but it sharpened my voice like a knife's edge. It gave me a community of weirdos - is there any better kind? And it gave me a path that led me to wonders I hadn't dreamed of.
All of this not without help. This #worldphotographyday I celebrate the people who have been there for me consistently to say "who you are and what you do is important, even when it doesn't feel like it". Some of them are companies that feel more like family who took a chance to help launch and sustain my career, like: CreativeLive that took a chance on me to teach their first fine art class that went on to reach thousands upon thousands in our community. Like Sony who took a chance on me to represent fine art in their Artisan lineup to make all the weirdo creators feel like they had someone like themselves represented in the industry.
Like White House Custom Colour who from day 1 told me that no matter what I ever do for them, whether it be absolutely nothing or everything, they simply want to support someone who stood for something good in the world.
Thank you for recognizing me as a leader in the photographic arts - I re-stake my claim that I am a curious beginner soul and I vow to keep learning.
And to the individuals, too many to list, who have held me up in my art and in my doubts, in my fear and in my triumphs...for it takes a person who holds you up in all those circumstances to be considered real and lasting...you have been my photography heroes, even those of you who aren't photographers. Really, I mean YOU, this community, my beacon and light in dark times. I wish I could tell you what you mean to me. It's everything. We are everything.
The look you get when you want to take pictures too close to dinner time.
Watched some of the Scott Robert Lim "Real World Lighting" class on Creative Live today and had to play around with some of the ideas, apparently a little to close to dinner time for my model.
www.creativelive.com/courses/real-world-lighting-advanced...
At the end of my Creative Live class when I finished making this series, I printed each image for a segment we filmed about how to print your images. During the wrap party, I gifted a print to each student and central crew member as a thank you for all the hard work that was put in. To my surprise, each person wanted a different print. No two people asked for the same one. It was a great lesson in seeing how different people are impacted by different things; how the smallest detail can draw someone in, how our experiences contribute hugely to how we interpret art.
I had felt a little down on this image, like it wasn't a big enough concept, or maybe like it fell flat in some way. But when I gifted it to Sarit, an in-studio audience member / friend, I saw it through her eyes. I saw why she loved it and it made me love it, too. Our art only contains one story if we keep it to ourselves. When we give our art to others it becomes imbued with their stories too, and what a gift that is. To see the world through someone else's experience - that is why I love sharing what I do.
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"Gossamer"
Model: Christin Purcell @jinxedorchid
Part of the series "Interval" shot for my CL class: "Fine Art Photography: The Complete Guide" www.creativelive.com/class/fine-art-photography-the-compl...
"There is, one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath..." - Herman Mellvile .
Taking self portraits with people around can be a bit awkward 😯 I'm in a long flowy dress, barefoot and making weird poses next to this boat - they must think in crazy, I thought to myself 😂😆 but taking these photos was one of the highlights of our trip! There's just something about this part of the creating process that I love 😊 💙 getting my feet muddy and my dress wet, what could be more fun 😂
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Thanks to @stevierayrosario for your help! 😁 .
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This image is my entry for the August challenge for the Facebook [fa] Fine Art Photography group titled 'Innocence'. www.facebook.com/groups/FAPinspiredbyBrookeShaden
The theme is “New Beginnings”. I knew exactly the type of image I wanted to create. You can read all about how this image was created over on my blog
I really wanted this image to convey the fragility and fear of innocence. In brief, I bought the nest in a craft shop, then polystyrene eggs, we painted them pale brown then speckled them with a toothbrush. It was messy! Then the cat, nest and flowers we photographed together, then Sam was added afterwards. For the wings I bought individual feathers and photographed them one by one against a black backdrop, holding them with two sets of tweezers. I then masked them using an awesome new technique that I recently learnt at a CreativeLive class with Aaron Nace. I had several attempts at the wings and I am happiest with these.
You can watch my behind the scenes speed edit of this image and see how the wings were made here.. youtu.be/A_pl1sgcm6U
Have an inspired day!
I had an absolute blast creating this picture - first shooting it on CreativeLive and then editing it for a video that I'll be releasing tomorrow. Lately I've been overcome with inspiration, seeing it everywhere I go, and I can't help but believe in inspiration as a state of mind more than anything else. For me, it is an openness to all life experiences and a willingness to invest time in why they are special to you. I hope everyone has a beautifully inspired day!
To grow so comfortable in your space that you don't notice the decay around you; to be so unwilling to move that you grow into your dormancy.
This idea for moss was one of the first I had for the series, but on our setup day I realized the moss wouldn't stay on the wall long enough to set up ahead of time. On the shooting day, we didn't have more than 15 minutes allotted to any given shoot, so I didn't have time to tape the moss to the wall. The in-studio audience, my new forever friends, went to work taping moss to the wall and in no time my imagination came to life thanks to their capable hands.
Being rendered immobile by slow-creeping, quiet, delicate nature has to be one of my favorite things - my imagination just goes wild for it. There is so much eerie beauty in the conflict between softness and destruction.
"Dormancy"
Model: Christin Purcell @jinxedorchid
Assistance by: Sarit Krupka Weingarten, Tory Watson, April Huizenga, Samantha Pugsley Photography
Created for my newest class: www.creativelive.com/class/fine-art-photography-the-compl...
As many of you know, I spent a month filming a 26+ hour class for Creative Live called "Fine Art Photography: The Complete Guide" which wrapped about a month ago. During that time I planned, shot, edited and printed a 10 image series. The class goes through that creation process from start to finish, and I'm so excited to share all of them with you! I'm releasing this series in the order it is meant to be viewed in.
The first image in this series, titled "Hollowness", begins the journey of what it means to be trapped, held back, or complacent in your life. Visually, this series will string together natural elements inside the "home", our subjects in different ways and at different levels held down by their circumstances...or, in a couple rare cases, breaking free of them. The series is called "Interval".
I have a little habit of asking for impossible things - not just from other people, I ask it of myself, too! In this case, I asked Creative Live if we could transport the crew, models, and students to an abandoned building. The problem was, Seattle isn't crawling with big enough, safe enough buildings to galavant around in. So, we drove 2 hours each day outside of Seattle to shoot this series. They helped haul sand in, a big fish tank, vines, dirt and all manner of interesting elements to the set. Will release the rest this month!
www.creativelive.com/class/fine-art-photography-the-compl...
Model: Rachel Randall Duo Straight Up
I watched Brooke Shaden on CreativeLIVE last week, and was glued to my screen for 3 days!
She is a flickr gal turned fine art photographer and teacher.
It was a very inspiring 3 days... I learned a few editing tricks... and thought I would edit a photo I've been hanging on to for years because I just didn't have any ideas for it...
Now of course this is not my style...and I don't plan to start imitating her style! lol... It is just a one off homage to a flickr icon ;)
Started playing around a bit and found the Canon "Creative Filters" menu in the camera. This filter is called "Miniature", supposed to replicate a Tilt Shift Lens. I normally don't use these but I really like what it did to this shot. One thing to remember is that using these filters you'll wind up with your picture only as a JPG, no RAW.
Only post processing on this is a resize in GIMP, otherwise it's straight out of the camera. I think I might just like my new toy!
(from the "Epée de damoclès" conceptual serie. 2/3)
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Happiest of happy new years!!! I have been terrible about updating my flickr :( boo! Sometimes you wish to be busy and then when it happens, you want to wish it away. But I am so happy and wouldn't change anything for the world. I've already done 10 shoots so far this year and I have a backlog of 15 images to edit, so I have to get moving! Tomorrow I'm headed to St. Louis to teach at After Dark and then going to Florida for SYNC to lecture there as well. But after all of *that*...I get to go to Harry Potter at Disney World!!!! I am so excited, I might throw up. Happy throw up!
In Feb I'll be teaching at creativeLIVE, all the while working on so many photos I might burst. I am so excited for creativity this year. I even started a new blog called Promoting Passion that aims to promote passion in my life and in the lives of others. I have a weekly video posting every Monday. The next one is about working with your friends as models.
Are you having a good new year? A great one? I am so grateful for all that Flickr has been and is, and so glad I can share my thoughts here.
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A Self-Portrait after what feels like a really long time.
Wow... watching Brooke Shaden's workshop gets me so inspired - every single time :)
A big thanks to CreativeLive for broadcasting it again.
I love doing client-shoots...but SPs always gonna remain my first love.
With every new image I feel so much more connected to myself. It's like - those ideas have been trapped inside my head and letting them out make me feel free. It's the joy of creation. :)
Little bit about the image - I saw this image in my tumblr feed and it inspired me so much. My first thought was - I love her pose, specially how her hand looks... and then I just had to create this SP. Initially I wanted to title it as - "Bird in Hand" but during the process of creation, it started gaining a whole new meaning in my heart and that's why this new title.
Be sure to watch me in the only double-length session of CreativeLIVE Photo Week on Thursday at 10:45!
"My Lensbaby"
I recently bought a flower photograph course from CreativeLive and watched it last week. I learned so much from the instructor Kathleen Clemons. I am excited because one course and a new lens are going to dramatically change how I photograph flowers.
Kathleen photographs flowers in a magical way and uses a special lens called a Lensbaby to achieve the desired look she wants. Her photographs make it look so easy, but it is very difficult.
The lens has a bellow type structure which allows the lens to be tilted up, down, left and right. It has a selective spot of focus then everything around that focus is blurred.
I took my lens to the State Botanical Garden of Georgia yesterday to try it out. I knew there was a learning curve, but my greatest frustration came because it only has a 15-inch focusing distance. Last night I did buy a close-up filter and extension tubes, so I can get real close to the flowers. Can't wait to start this new journey….gotta long way to go!
To purchase wildlife and nature fine art prints, please visit my website: www.judyroyalglennphotography.com
I've spent the last 3 days at an intensive Photoshop training course at Creative Live in San Francisco. We still have 2 days of recording to go. The sessions will be played out one per day starting tomorrow, Monday June 6th. You can watch one session per day for free, but if you purchase the course you can watch any session at any time and learn at your own pace.
Tune in tomorrow morning at 9 a.m. PST for the first "Live" session (or any time during the day); you'll see me in the front row, center, in the studio audience :)
www.creativelive.com/courses/adobe-photoshop-cc-the-compl...
2011 - Day 162. June 11, 2011
Daily Shoot - Make a photograph emphasizing a square or a grid today. (I'm hoping the honeycomb texture satisfies the grid requirement.)
We're in Day 2 of CreativeLive's Beyond Photography - Artistic Post Production with Doug Landreth. I'm trying to apply what I'm learning as we go along.
In this shot I isolated a single chive blossom in order to get a very simple background and then waited for the bee to drop into the scene. I added a honeycomb texture and then just played with hue, saturation, blending modes and opacity until I was happy with the result.
#WorldPhotoDay
"Photography is a powerful method of communication that we can use to uplift, initiate and inspire change in our world. A picture is worth a thousand words and those words can be in any of the 6,500 planet languages on planet. "
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12.05.15
Oh hey, do you ever have those moments when you go and take a nap and where up from said nap feeling a little worse than when you had laid down? This is how this photo happened. Personally I could wake up this every day.
Just saying.
My laptop has been making some pretty scary sounds that make me uncomfortable to use it for extended periods of times. So I'm going to shuffle off, but if you need something to fill you time you really really really need to check this site out. it's called CreativeLive
Honestly this site is magic and I've learned some amazing things from it. 10/10 would always recommend. CLICK ON THAT LINK YO'!
I took this image way back when I was first starting to get back into photography. I loved it until someone told me in front of a large group of people, "Ha! She looks like an angry bride." Of course, I was extremely discouraged and never worked on it again. I came across this image by accident and decided to process it even though I took it so long ago.
I am extremely grateful that I have come to the point where comments like that won't keep me from doing what I want with my images. Criticism can be tough for artists to hear. But constructive criticism is important for growth so being to tell the difference is important.
I like this image and to me that is enough.
Whatever you do, never let the opinion of someone else stop you from doing something you love.
If you need a good kick in the pants, this article is fantastic.
blog.creativelive.com/time-choose-want-deserve/?utm_campa...
Model: Lauren Mort
Also I recently started an Instagram. I post some of the same photos that I do on here but I also post some more personal photos as well. I'd love to follow all of you there as well so give me a follow so that I can follow you back :)
Sooo I am in my hotel room with a pair of pears and no way to pare them.
Sooooo....
If I can't eat'm I will take a picture of them.
Ever wonder what all those "things" in menus of the things you would never think to use? That stuff. I selected the "Miniature" mode in the "effect" Dial. Shot this then the battery dies.
Here's the "The After the Battery Dies" (sounds sorta like an eMpTV show) image.
Who knew?
Lit with light from the window 6:20pm Seattle.
Shot with Nikon D7200 an 28-300mm lens. Post processing was done with Capture NX-D (Raw processing) Photoshop CC 2014, onOne Perfect Effects Suite and Nik Collection Software.
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