Use The Power Of Storyboarding To Structure Your Photographic Explorations

The first time I went to Namibia I used this storyboard to find more ideas and structure my thinking. Find out how it worked out at the end of this article.   Movies are rarely shot without storyboarding them. Consider storyboarding your still photography projects...

Every Picture Tells A Story … But How Does It Tell It?

Visual stories can be simple or complex, quiet or dramatic, short or long ... the possibilities are endless. Even in abstract images things happen, at the very least formal elements interact. Sometimes stories are told with images through their relationships with other images. Every picture...

Three Keys To Analyzing Images – Content, Form & Feeling

1 Realistic images emphasize content. 2 Graphic images emphasize form. 3 Expressionistic images emphasize feeling. 4 Impressionistic images may evoke content, form, and/or feeling.   Making verbal statements about visual images can be challenging. But, it’s also very useful. Learning to make useful statements about...

12 Things To Look For In Great Prints & Common Problems To Avoid

  Most people evaluate a combination of elements to assess print quality. Find out what they are, how to get them, and how to avoid common mistakes in this new video. 7 Things To Look For In Great Prints & Great Artists Who Make Exceptions...

9 Ways To Tell If Your Photographs Are Over Cooked

9 Ways To Tell If Your Photographs Are Over Cooked Have you ever taken an image so far it gets completely out of control? I know that feeling well.  It happens to all of us. It’s not all bad. We have to step over the...

Moving Sculpture – Arthur Ganson

Moving Sculpture – Arthur Ganson, “Sculptor and engineer Arthur Ganson talks about his work — kinetic art that explores deep philosophical ideas and is gee-whiz fun to look at.”

Three Simple Lines / Natalie Goldberg & John Paul Caponigro

    Tuesday, May 24 – 6:00 to 7:00 pm MT – Online At The Santa Fe Workshops Creativity Continues at Santa Fe Workshops when author Natalie Goldberg joins John Paul Caponigro for an intriguing conversation about how words make images and images make words....

Art As A New Form Of Life – Theo Jansen

. “Artist Theo Jansen demonstrates the amazingly lifelike kinetic sculptures he builds from plastic tubes and lemonade bottles. His creatures are designed to move — and even survive — on their own.”

Making The Most Of Challenging Times By Living The Creative Life

Recently I had a wide-ranging conversation with Richard Bernabe for his Beyond The Lens podcast. I shared stories about being raised in a family of artists and how making art has helped me deepen my connections with the natural world and sustain me during these...

State The Nature Of The Influence On You Simply – One Word, Phrase, Sentence

Complexity Intuited Order Eliot Porter saw a more complex geometry in nature. All types of artists look closely at their influences; particularly as they’re finding their own voice, or at key stages in their creative development, for many, it’s a lifelong process. The comparisons and...