Project 52 Feed

• Assignment Eight: Recipe and Ingredients for a Regional Magazine

  Photo by John Kleb. Shoot the ingredients for a salad (your recipe) on a white background. Keep the shot very tightly framed. We need a little white space at the foreground for some type. Regional magazine wants a one page article shot for their upcoming issue. Specifics: magazine is 8×10.5″ tall full bleed image, with [...]
  
  

• Try ?Improvisation? To Build Your Vision

  I believe that photography is “jazz with a camera”. Always have. The improvisational function of what we do is so similar to a jazz musician that the allegory works incredibly well. In this post I show you one of my recent “improvs” with a handfull of seashells. The point is to narrow the scope of [...]
  
  

• Assignment Seven: A Cellphone Portrait

  Assignment Number Seven: A photograph of someone using a cellphone for a local communications company point of purchase display and matching brochure. This is what the art director gave you for the job: Click to make larger. And yeah, this is exactly the kinds of things you can get. I have gotten layouts that looked [...]
  
  

• New Book Available At Amazon

  This was a pretty fun book to work on. I wrote it and then illustrated it. The first book was written to the images I had. Next time a happy medium… both were not the ideal way I would like to have done them. I hope the folks who like light will take a few [...]
  
  

• Gear Pages Added.

  I see where a lot of the Project 52 folks are asking about some gear ideas for the assignment work. You do not have to spend a lot of dough on this stuff, but it is always good to have a bit of gear around for the times you need it. I have posted the [...]
  
  

• PROJECT 52: PRO EDITION: ASSIGNMENT ONE

  Chocolate: We will be doing the same as the regular Project 52 on some assignments – others will vary quite a bit. For this assignment, an art buyer has asked to see some of your best chocolate shots for a possible chance at a regional ad for chocolate importer. She is not clear about the [...]
  
  

• Assignment Six: Chocolate? Sweets for the Sweets

  A local restaurant has decided to run a special on chocolate on their menu for the next month. They need something that says, no – SCREAMS Chocolate!!! People or still life or cute little furry animals or fish… … well… probably not fish… but you get the idea. Chocolate… and they are featuring chocolate candies, [...]
  
  

• Important INFO on the PRO 52 Group

  I am so glad to announce it starts today. You will be getting an email titled: “P52 Pro News and Assignments” in case you want to add it to your spam filter. After you signed up, you received an email from me with instructions on signing up for the newsletter. Most did, but a few [...]
  
  

• Still Life Videos (Tutorials)

  Here are three examples of shooting still life with very simple materials. You can see some additional videos from YouTube here.
  
  

• If you need inspiration. . .

  Read this: http://blog.photoshelter.com/2012/01/rant-i-love-photography/ Yep. What he said. Me, too. I love photography. I lost my grandfather about a year ago. The last time I saw him was for a very short visit on New Years Day, 2011 – he passed away in February 2011. That day, my grandfather gave my son a wooden school bus [...]