Listen to the Words You Use

You can learn a lot just by listening to yourself. When you speak about yourself, your creative life, and the works you produce, the words you use can be very telling. Do the words you use share common themes? When I review someone’s work I...

Get Physical With Your Subjects

To truly touch your viewers you may have to touch someone or something else first. We have many intelligences (intellectual, emotional, physical, etc), but when it comes to making images we often leave many of them out of the mix. Try energizing your creative process...

Books to Help You Design Books

There’s a lot to learn about producing books and graphic design. Find books that will quickly help you learn about these interesting topics here. Find more Bookmaking resources here. Learn more in my Fine Art Digital Printing workshops.

Photo Books – How Many Images Is Enough?

How many images is optimum for a photo book? Of course, the answer depends on the kind of book being produced and its purpose. There’s no set number; extreme lengths for books vary between as few as 12 to more than 300 images. There are...

Writing Artist’s Statements

It’s important to learn how to make the visual verbal, by crafting artist’s statements. Many artists feel that images are better seen and not heard. I understand their point of view. But, face it, things will be said and written about your images. If you...

John Paul Caponigro – Environmental Artist & EpsonStylusPro Master Printer

Find printing tips is my latest interview with Ron Martinsen. Find more tips in my Lessons. Find out about my fine art digital printing workshops here.

Breaking the Rules

In his book Photography and the Art of Seeing, Freeman Patterson offers excellent advice. List all of the rules of photography. Then break them. If you do this, you’ll develop a better understanding of the medium. I recommend you take this advice one step further....

Things That Make Images Weaker

During reviews in my workshops we discuss what keeps some images from working better and how they could be improved. Here’s a list we compiled during my recent Iceland workshop. Avoid these thing and make your images stronger. Lack of Focus (Not Deliberate) Limited Depth...

Things That Make Images Stronger

During reviews in my workshops we discuss images made in terms of what makes them strong and how they could be made stronger. Here’s a list we compiled during my recent Iceland workshop. You can use any one or more than one in combination to...

Iceland 2010 – Participant Images Second Reviews

We do lightning fast reviews of participant’s images in my digital photography workshops. We discuss what works and why and what doesn’t and why not. It’s wonderful to see how different the images are, made by individuals in the same situations using the same tools....