Steal Like An Artist – The Book
A year ago I did a blog post about an article on Austin Kleon’s web site where talked about 10 ways to unlock your creativity. He has now expanded on this idea and written a book called “Steal Like an Artist”. I stumbled across this book …
Read MoreHave You Registered Your Photos?
In the past few weeks I’ve had several photographer friends who have had their photos stolen and in one case one was put on a stock photography site. Neither of these photographers had registered their photos so the only recourse they really have is to …
Read MoreImproving Content Aware Fill
Photoshop CS5 added the feature Content Aware Fill which is an amazing tool which I use quite often. However with certain images it often has difficulties and I end up having to do a lot of manual cleanup after using Content Aware Fill. I recently …
Read More2012 Best Picture Nominees
Every year my goal is to watch all of the Best Picture Nominees for the Oscar. This year I met this goal on Sunday night, a week before the Oscars, on a red-eye flight from San Jose to JFK Airport in New York by watching …
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Open Letter to Adobe from Scott Kelby
Scott Kelby has written this very good open letter to Adobe about their recently announced pricing strategy for the next release of Photoshop and the Creative Suite. Of course Scott has ulterior motives, in that if his 70K NAPP members don’t upgrade to the new version …
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The Power of Sketching Your Photographic Ideas
My approach to photography has gone through an evolution over the past 6 months and I’m finally to the point where I feel like it’s all coming together. In March 2011 I took a workshop with John Paul Caponigro in Death Valley called Illuminating Creativity. This …
Read MoreWork of Art
Bravo TV has just started the 2nd season of “Work of Art – The Next Great Artist”. I highly recommend this program to all my artist/photographer friends. This past week I started watching some old shows from last season that were on my DVR and …
Read MoreLittle Red Riding Hood
I enjoy doing themed shoots and a Little Red Riding Hood theme has been on my list for a long time. My photographer friend Rebekah was doing this shoot and invitied me along because she needed someone to wear the wolf costume. We had a …
Read MoreIs Being Creative a Constant Uphill Battle?
Ira Glass outlines what it takes to break through as a creative person. I’ve seen various versions of this over the past month, but liked this presentation and thought it fit well with today’s topic. I am constantly trying to realize my vision in my …
Read MorePhotography Marketing Magic with Sandy Puc’
Sandy Puc’ – How to Make Pigs Fly, and Other Marketing Magic! from Frederick Van Johnson on Vimeo. I attended this presentation by Sandy Puc’ a few weeks back in Palo Alto and was blown away by her presentation. During the presentation I remember thinking …
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