I stand in the rain holding an umbrella braced against my neck and shoulder and try to position my camera on the waterfall in front of me. This is yet another attempt to photograph this waterfall in the high Uintah Mountains in Utah. I have photographed this waterfall many times before but have yet […]
Archive for the ‘Creativity’ Category
PHOTOGRAPHY: ANALYZING THE CREATIVE PROCESS AND WHAT WE RECEIVE FROM IT
Posted in Creativity, Photo Creativity on June 27, 2012 | 3 Comments »
LEARN HOW TO SEE CREATIVELY:
Posted in Creativity on April 27, 2012 | 103 Comments »
People often tell me that you have to be born creative. It is just in your gene pool. If you don’t have it, you are just out of luck. Years ago when I had a commercial photography studio in Texas, I had a photographer friend who rented space from me in the studio. He was […]
BE A TALENT WHISPERER:
Posted in Creativity on March 27, 2012 | 76 Comments »
What do you do with expensive talent waiting for direction in front of your camera?
Making the Ordinary into Extraordinary:
Posted in Creativity on January 26, 2012 | 4 Comments »
So here I am on the upper deck of my cabin watching this feisty little squirrel run around the branches of this pine tree, and I am trying to think of what to do to make a good, or maybe even a great, photo. This squirrel is going from pine cone to pine cone, sometimes […]
Creativity: Painting Pixels.
Posted in Creativity, tagged Creativity/Photography/Painter/Cowboy on January 23, 2012 | 4 Comments »
There are so many ways to be creative now with digital and all the different plug-ins available to us thru Photoshop. Today it’s going to be Painter. I started out as an artist, and then became a photographer. So today you get to see a photo that has been manipulated in Painter. This is a photo […]
LISTEN WITH YOUR EYES
Posted in Creativity on February 1, 2011 | 2 Comments »
This seems to be without a doubt the greatest time in the age of photography since its beginnings. I often wonder what Caponigro, Adams, Eisenstaedt, and the early greats would say if they were able to see the quality and endless manipulations in the digital photographer’s bag of tricks and techniques. They laid the ground […]