by Donald Giannatti | Apr 27, 2013 | Featured, LE News and Info
The assignment was called “The Tear Sheet” and it involved the students working through creating a “fauxtolio” to help them focus their energy on making images that they LOVED to make. The “fauxtolio” helps guide the sensibilities...
by Donald Giannatti | Apr 19, 2013 | Featured, LE News and Info
I recently completed an assignment for an advertising agency here in Phoenix. The Lavidge agency has been around quite a while and it was a lot of fun to shoot this industrial gig with them. The client was United Rentals – a major player in the tool rental...
by Donald Giannatti | Apr 14, 2013 | Featured, Going Pro, LE News and Info, PROJECT "52"
This was the first assignment completed by the Project 52 PRO’s. Photographing strangers can be a very delicate and scary idea for a lot of people. The fear of rejection or having the subject be angry stops most from ever attempting photographing people they do...
by Donald Giannatti | Apr 4, 2013 | Featured, Going Pro
I met Jan about five years ago when he flew to Phoenix to take one of my one day workshops. We met again in Seattle when I was doing the workshops nationally. I knew he had a strong work ethic, and a powerful desire to be a photographer, and encouraged him to make it...
by Donald Giannatti | Mar 24, 2013 | Featured, Going Pro
Gary Crabbe is a full time landscape and environmental shooter living in Central California. Recently, one of his blogposts caught my attention as it is something I am wondering about as well. I just came back from Zion and Bryce Canyons and while there found myself...
by Donald Giannatti | Mar 19, 2013 | Featured, Going Pro
David Giral is a photographer in Montreal, Canada. I met him a few years ago at a workshop near Toronto, and we have stayed in touch. He is a talented young man, for sure, but he is also tenaciously working on his business. From leave-behinds, to websites, to email...