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Updates & Links

February 12th Workshop: Register (HERE)
Published in Whirl Wedding Guide (HERE)
Wedding Wire Brides Choice Award (HERE)
The Knot Best of Wedding 2011 Pick (HERE)
Winter Street Photography Slide Show (HERE)

Pittsburgh Photography Workshop 2.12.2011

In your gut you want to be a PHOTOGRAPHER. Or maybe you just want to learn how to use that expensive camera you just bought but you’re not sure who to ask. You have a great eye for composition but you just need some guidance, an advisor to help YOU fulfill your dreams. Make the jump from thinking, daydreaming and create great photographs…

Is this you?
-You take great pictures
-Everybody tells you that you take great pictures
-Your friends and family always ask you to bring your camera
-You bought an expensive new DSLR camera
-You have no idea how to use to it, except on AUTO
-The camera’s manual scares the bajesus out of you
-You love photography and want to get better

Who should take this workshop?
-If the list above is YOU
-You love taking photographs
-ISO, F/stop, shutter speed, and aperture are words that means nothing to you
-You have no idea what DSLR means
-If you want to able to tell your camera what to do
-If you want the mysteries of the photo universe revealed to you

What you will learn:
-Understanding exposure
-How to use your camera in manual mode
-How to take a photo “correctly” in camera
-Natural light techniques
-Understanding your lens
-Understanding White Balance
-Flash Techniques

TO REGISTER FOLLOW THIS: (HERE)
http://www.craig-photography.com/workshop/howtophoto/

Pittsburgh Photography Workshop 2.12.2011

In your gut you want to be a PHOTOGRAPHER. Or maybe you just want to learn how to use that expensive camera you just bought but you’re not sure who to ask. You have a great eye for composition but you just need some guidance, an advisor to help YOU fulfill your dreams. Make the jump from thinking, daydreaming and create great photographs…

Is this you?
-You take great pictures
-Everybody tells you that you take great pictures
-Your friends and family always ask you to bring your camera
-You bought an expensive new DSLR camera
-You have no idea how to use to it, except on AUTO
-The camera’s manual scares the bajesus out of you
-You love photography and want to get better

Who should take this workshop?
-If the list above is YOU
-You love taking photographs
-ISO, F/stop, shutter speed, and aperture are words that means nothing to you
-You have no idea what DSLR means
-If you want to able to tell your camera what to do
-If you want the mysteries of the photo universe revealed to you

What you will learn:
-Understanding exposure
-How to use your camera in manual mode
-How to take a photo “correctly” in camera
-Natural light techniques
-Understanding your lens
-Understanding White Balance
-Flash Techniques

TO REGISTER FOLLOW THIS: (HERE)
http://www.craig-photography.com/workshop/howtophoto/

Pittsburgh Photography Workshop 2.12.2011

In your gut you want to be a PHOTOGRAPHER. Or maybe you just want to learn how to use that expensive camera you just bought but you’re not sure who to ask. You have a great eye for composition but you just need some guidance, an advisor to help YOU fulfill your dreams. Make the jump from thinking, daydreaming and create great photographs…

Is this you?
-You take great pictures
-Everybody tells you that you take great pictures
-Your friends and family always ask you to bring your camera
-You bought an expensive new DSLR camera
-You have no idea how to use to it, except on AUTO
-The camera’s manual scares the bajesus out of you
-You love photography and want to get better

Who should take this workshop?
-If the list above is YOU
-You love taking photographs
-ISO, F/stop, shutter speed, and aperture are words that means nothing to you
-You have no idea what DSLR means
-If you want to able to tell your camera what to do
-If you want the mysteries of the photo universe revealed to you

What you will learn:
-Understanding exposure
-How to use your camera in manual mode
-How to take a photo “correctly” in camera
-Natural light techniques
-Understanding your lens
-Understanding White Balance
-Flash Techniques

TO REGISTER FOLLOW THIS: (HERE)
http://www.craig-photography.com/workshop/howtophoto/

This Week ~ Updates

Tuesday ~ Create | Connect | Grow (info HERE)
Thursday ~ Photo Workshop in McKeesport
Friday ~ Photo-Walk

Others Stuff….

So thrilled to announce that Elizabeth and I finally nailed down a date for our HOW TO EVERYTHING: PHOTOGRAPHY workshop!

If you would like to have the mysteries of the photo-universe revealed (well…most of them at least ) then this is for you! See below for further info.

TO REGISTER FOLLOW THIS LINK!
http://craig-photography.com/workshop/howtophoto/

New Project

“Creativity is only art if it’s shared.”

That sentence is the corner stone to a new project that I am starting.

The project is based on the subject of managing your photography life & biz. If I write this correctly you will come to think of your personal life and professional life to be married into one fluid life, which I call “Deliberate Living”.

My current working titles are “PHOTONOMICS”, “ART*LOGIKE” . Not sure which title I like yet. Any thoughts are welcomed.

Too often running a photography business feels like doing homework, rather than the work you were meant to do.

Does this sound like you? “I just need to get this thing done (return e-mails) before moving on to the next thing that needs done (updating social media) so I can get to my fun work: the creative stuff that I want to do.”

There are too many jobs within jobs that all need equal attention to keep the business moving forward.

What if you could do one thing deliberately with many positive outcomes?

It’s a business first, even if your business is to create art. That is a hard thing to say out loud for the majority of us who work in photography.

Art and commerce have a long-standing love affair with each other that is not going to go away, especially in this digital culture.

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Curious? So What do you think?

As always, share your thoughts with me....

Dates & Links

Next ~ Create | Connect | Grow

When: November 16
Topic: Marketing, SEO & Attracting Clients
Time: 7pm – 9pm
Where: 502 W. North Ave. Pgh 15212

open to all…

Next Photo Walk
November 19 ~ Photo Walk / Light Up Night
Where: West End Overlook
Time: 8pm (time subject to change)

open to all...

Links
SEO tips (HERE)
More SEO (HERE) be sure to watch the video.
EVENT page (HERE) for workshops.
Pittsburgh Boudoir Photography | Valentine’s Day Boudoir Special | Elizabeth Craig Intimates (HERE)

1,000 Free Photos

~ My goal is simple: to give away 1,000 free photos in 5 days.

~Everyday this week I will post a new photo to get me closer to my goal.

~ All the photos are copyrighted under a creative commons to share, copy, distribute and transmit the work (wish I hope you do).

~ You can share or do anything you wish with these photos (except sell them).

~ Please share these photos freely, post them on your blog, facebook, twitter, e-mail or hang a large print in your home (that is my wish).

Download full resolution photos (HERE)
Download screen saver size (HERE)

Review: Jared Platt & Lightoom Workshop

Photography education is a difficult subject to teach; Jared Platt does it well, very well.

For a photograph, there is no map or formula for what is correct. In music the “G” chord is agreed upon that either play it correctly or you don’t. In writing, usage of grammar is agreed upon.

In photography there is no agreed upon definition of what makes a correct exposure. The correct exposure is the exposure that you want to create. A poorly exposed photograph is easily agreed upon, but the correct exposure is subjective to the photographer and the viewer.

This is why photography concepts and photography education is a hard subject to communicate; limitless outcome, no agreed upon map.

In creating a photograph there is one concept that we share. That levels the playing field, no matter what equipment or time spent behind the lens. What is that concept? The frame. Jared Platt taught me that.

In a world where thinking outside the box is praised, photographers have to share the four walls that frame the subject. We must think inside the box.

In a Jared Platt workshop you will learn Lightroom 3, more than that you will understand the concepts of the “why “ of your workflow. These lessons of the “why” of your workflow are priceless in themselves, not to mention all the tips, shortcuts and time saving information that Platt educates on.

Platt educates. Not in a follow-my-lead type of workshop. He educates about how to think inside the box, be it the frame in the camera or the square box of your computer that houses Lightroom.

Platt delivers his workshop from the mindset that only great photos get to live. A photograph is only truly a photograph when you purposefully select it.

“Be a harsh editor, your clients deserve only your best work. You were hired to make decisions, make them.” ~ Platt (Survey mode in Lightroom will become your friend after this workshop.)

I am a good photographer; I have been honing my craft for nearly twenty years. After attending Platt’s workshop I now feel like a “complete photographer” and that is limitless.

Life with a Purse & a Platt ~ Update

I have no major vices, sometimes I wish I did. Coffee is the hardest drug that I rely on. No addition of choice...what type of artist must I be? I have discovered that coffee, Gatorade and powerbars can keep you alive much longer than one would expect.

Work has been plentiful lately. We do our best to pace ourselves throughout the year, nonetheless we have been busy.

Let me give you an update on what we been up to.

Elizabeth, my wife has sent us off on a grand photography venture that we have been loving. You can read about the perennial seeds of that adventure here.

Towards the end of July we will be hosting famed photographer Jared Platt for a two-day stay in Pittsburgh to talk and teach about Lightroom version three. You can read about that here.

I have not had as much time to write as I wish but I have discovered a blog by Tom Dinning, a bloke from down under, who has some pondering thoughts on the subject of the still image. You can read and view his work here.

Weather in Pittsburgh has been hot and humid, very humid. Seems no matter how long you live in the Northeast part of the country your body never adjusts to the weather changes.

Got to go...my red wine and vicodin has just arrived.

Boudoir Photography Workshop Wrap-Up

Check out Elizabeth's Boudoir Photography Workshop wrap-up HERE.