NOTES: CreativeLIVe Fundamentals of Digital Photography with John Greengo

This week I watched the Fundamentals of Digital Photography, It was a 5 day workshop with John Greengo!  The course was amazing with some really great graphics that make the process of  understanding photography very clear. I took 94 pages of notes and some screen shots.

• 10 thing every photographer need to know from  Wednesday.

1. Photography is not cheap
2. The best camera of tomorrow can't shoot a picture today
3. Quality is important...  up to an point
4. Nobody makes a living being just a photographer
5. An average photographer with great business skills beat a great photographer with average business skills.
6. Opinions matter, yours most of all.
7. Three years to three stars (Year 1 & 2: trash most photos and one and two only, Year 3: three stars)
8. The hardest part of photography is being in the right place at the right time
9. Good photographers are good problem solvers
10. The learning never stops

             Look, Shoot, Edit, Repeat!

• Here's John Greengo's formal for taking great photo from the creativeLIVE workshop on Thursday.
1.  You need a camera (least important)
2.  You need time, available light (to scout and be available)
3.  You need effort ( photography is not easy)
4. Your need knowledge (the more you know, the better you'll do)

• The Formula for what makes a great photo from John Greengo on Friday.
• Beautiful Light
• Beautiful Composition
• Beautiful Moment
• New Interesting Subject
• New Perspective
• A Little Mystery ( not tell whole story in a photo)
• Also
• Bring the camera
• Pack light/Pack smart
• Stand steady, shoot steady
• Bring a tripod
• Get closer, get closer, get closer
• Watch your foreground and background
• Get out there and shoot, shoot, shot

• Go through your images and critique yourself
• Back up your photos 

• Fill the frame
• If you're giving nothing to shoot just shoot nothingness

• Get down on your belly and get up in the tree
• Keep your balance and wait for the decisive moment
• Shoot what you know
• Shoot what don't know

• To be a great photographer.. you need to see what others do not, you need to know the fundamentals of photography, you need the ability to portray your subject in a way that is bold beautiful and simple.

Easter Snack!

What snack do you look forward to eating at Easter time?

Easter is the only time I can get my hands on Starburst jelly beans. They are so good!  I can eat the whole bag in one day! No joke they are delicious and you can not just have two. One of my nephews received some starburst jelly beans in is Easter Basket and I told him I will give him a dollar if be give me  the small bag of Starburst jelly beans. He was not having it, but he ended up giving me one jelly bean. I said, " How kind of you to sharing and thanks!

NOTES: from CreativeLIVE Lightroom 4 Workshop

I enjoyed watching CreativeLIVE workshop regarding Lightroom 4.  Here are some off my notes from Laura Shoes workshop on the new Lightroom 4:

• Why Lightroom
• Customizes for Photographers, their workflow to all our needs
• Library Develop for retouch and adjusting, want to get the most out of your photos, powerful
• Lightroom is forgiving ( means it is ok you can undo, never touch your own photo)
• You can do more faster ( can find photos), work multi photos at the same time
• Recommended to have 1 catalog for all your photos is recommended
• Catalog can be on external drive, NOT on network drive
• Organize photo, back them up and  photo library to
• Organize photo, Lightroom doesn't organize photos, don't car how you do it
• Lightroom catalog contains all data you have ever done, have backup folder on photo library, to protect from corruption
• Backup catalog only back up data, to photos you did in catalog, not the images it self.
• Have photo library folder with image files and backup folder inside the library folder and back up the folder to be safe on a external drive.
• During import you can pre set in develop setting save time, add keywords need commas, apply to every photo you are importing tell where to store image
• DON'T delete photos, thinking they are in Lightroom
• To CLICK all photos in Lightroom, click all images by pressing (Command and A)
• If need help in LIghtroom or in doubt, RIGHT click on a Mac for options.

Lighting

I need to make time to practice and understand light and how what I can do to improve my photo. I need to spend some time watching practicing lighting and review my work!

Amazing Photo shoot

  Exciting one year old photo shoot this weekend with my nephew, Jacob! He was a precious little boy who's favorite words right now is "Whats That" and pointing at any object that he is curious about! The photo shoot took place on St. Patrick's Day! Here are some photos from the event.

                              

Under the Sea Baby Shower

This weekend I enjoyed making some deserts and a center piece for an amazing baby shower, with the under the sea theme. The center piece is coral with bath toys swimming around.  The deserts consist of blue cake pops, octopus marshmallow pops and yummy stuffed strawberries. Bellow are some of the photos of the deserts I made.

Center Piece:

Coral with sea creatures 

Deserts:                                            

 Cake Pops (Beach balls)

Octopus Marshmallow Pops ( the octopus are sitting in browns sugar, white sugar, blue sprinkles, and white round sprinkles for pearls)

Stuffed Strawberries (I cut the bottom and cut the top off, then scooped out a bowl like shape in the top and filled it with cream cheese softened filling)

Have a great week!

Amazing Glamour weekend on CreativeLIVE

Wow what an amazing weekend! Will post what I learned this weekend!