Project Based Learning for Lightroom 5 Only 1 seat left for this class! Over the years, I have been blessed to teach hundreds of students how to master Lightroom, Photoshop, Fine Art Photography, and other Adobe applications to achieve a[…]
Imagineering Methods for Theme Creation – The Subject
As noted in the last blog on Imagineering Methods for Theme Creation, Theme and Subject are two different things. A Subject portrays what is descriptively evident by the subject’s matter, the medium that created the image(s), the physical form, and[…]
A Conversation with Scott Robert Lim – The Fine Art of Wedding Photography
I make, teach, and write about fine art photography, themes, processes, and celebrate success in this genre. So one would wonder why I’m suddenly interested in wedding photography. It’s because all of us at one time or another experience wedding[…]
Fine Art Photography Exhibit Review
The Los Angeles River Flows by Ding Kalis Calumet Gallery 1135 N. Highland Ave. Hollywood, CA 90038 August 5 – September 3, 2013 Artist Reception: August 8th, 2013 – 6pm America has been and continues to be an experiment that[…]
A Great Summer Read
Guerilla Marketing for Artists By Barney Davey 178 pages; paper, $22.46 http://amzn.to/1ce5c9y Barney Davey’s latest book, Guerrilla Marketing for Artists, is without reservation a worthwhile investment, one with immediate and lasting value. In my view this is more than a[…]
Imagineering Methods for Theme Creation
On this Wednesday morning coming down, I know two things: You can study fine art photography or You can create a fine art study with photography. The first is useful for creating fine art and engages the brain to consider[…]
A Cloud Over the Cloud
Unless you have been on a far-away Tibetan mountain for the last several months, with no contact to the world, then you know that Adobe has gone ‘all in’ for the Creative Cloud. No more boxed software; It’s cloud subscription-only.[…]
Back Up and Back Up Twice
You hear faint clicks, a few files are slow to open, and there is a long whir when you shut down and then restart. In the pit of your stomach there is an unbreathing blackness, and in the back of[…]
Merging Harmonies
Exhibit at Calumet Photographic Santa Ana If you decide to pursue Fine Art Photography as a vocation or as serious avocation, you will be committing to a permanent change in how you view life and how others eventually come to[…]
Barney Davey Speaks with Bob Killen
“A Wisdom Interview With An Art Marketing Pro” I’m facing my computer screen with an image in process, when I hear that soft ‘ding’, a musical note that alerts me about important e-mail arrivals. In the lower right hand corner,[…]