by Donald Giannatti | Nov 3, 2014 | Featured
Yesterday I spent the morning wandering around an area north of Phoenix for a few hours. Joined by photographers Dennis Mong and Miachelle DePiano, we took a loop through a beautiful part of central / north Arizona. I had no expectations other than hoping I could...
by Donald Giannatti | Oct 31, 2014 | Featured, LE News and Info, PROJECT "52"
The assignment was to illustrate a double truck (2 page spread) magazine story on the Origins of Halloween. Layout was furnished as a layered PSD file and the P52 students had to shoot TO that layout – reversed copy and all. The assignment was a great example of...
by Donald Giannatti | Oct 29, 2014 | Featured, Going Pro
My recent Lighting Essentials post on “Systems” (Don’t Be Afraid of Systems) was an overview of some simple checklists that I use to keep focused and create content in an overwhelmingly busy world. The amount of people, information, education,...
by Donald Giannatti | Oct 27, 2014 | Featured, Going Pro, LE News and Info, PROJECT "52"
In this assignment, the photographers had to jump through a few hoops. The previous week they had to submit a “Creative Direction” shoot showing at least two different approaches to doing the fictitious catalog. Those approaches had to meet some criteria....
by Donald Giannatti | Oct 22, 2014 | Featured, LE News and Info
Last week I railed against too many rules. Now I am asking if there is too much freedom? Could I be off my meds, or a little daffy? To complain about too many rules and then question if there may be too much freedom too… OMG, I am turning into a …. no, I won’t go...