Looking at Things from Many Perspectives

Look at Things from Many Perspectives One of the hallmarks of creativity is the ability to look at things from many perspectives, both conventional and unconventional. Often taking a different tack when engaging a problem reveals dimensions, relationships, insights, and solutions that might otherwise remain...

Put It In Writing

Put It In Writing Writing helps clarify thought. Find the words to describe your images and you’ll not only be able to make your work clearer to others, you’ll understand it better yourself. Use one word, one phrase, one sentence, one paragraph, and one page....

Identify the Core

Identify the Core “If you had to eliminate all of your images save one, which one image would you keep?” This is a question I frequently ask my students and myself. It’s not something I recommend you actually do, but answering the question, hard as...

Evaluating Success

Evaluating Success Specify your standards for success to help you realize how far you’ve come and when you’ve arrived. Identify your standards before you begin projects. When you see your criteria, you may refine them, setting an even better course. With the clarity that comes...

Take A Break

Take a Break Stuck? Take a break! When the solution to a problem eludes you … Go for coffee. Take a walk. Take a nap. Sleep on it. Sometimes, you may need to do this for many days in a row. Often, taking a break...

Think Outside of the Box

Think Outside the Box The box causes you to repeatedly search the same ground and find the same results. The box is usually created by unacknowledged rules of conduct. To think outside the box, you first need to define the box. Solution? List all of...

Learn to Be More Creative

Learn to Be More Creative You can learn to be more creative. How? Let me count the ways! Try these five ways for starters. (You’ll find more tips like these in every issue of Insights.) 1 Acknowledge that you are creative and commit yourself to...

Variations

Here’s an excerpt from my article in the current issue of After Capture magazine. “Once you’ve identified the core concerns, strengths, and weaknesses a body of work your path becomes clearer. Stick to your strong points; repeat them. Eliminate or minimize weaknesses. Introduce small variations...

Increasing Color Accuracy

Can color accuracy be increased? Yes. In many ways. Targets like gray cards and color checkers can help to a limited degree; they’re useful in idealized lighting situations (5000K) but not others (the gray card isn’t gray in the ‘golden hours’ – it’s golden). Add...

Precise Language Leads to Better Perception

A precise language for color (LHS)(Luminosity-Hue-Saturation) can increase not only the precision of color communication but also color observations. There are too many flavors of RGB and CMYK. Lab takes too much calculation. But LSH is a great language conceptually (and you see it in...