2013

How To Come Up With Great Ideas: Photo Shoot

http://youtu.be/kDJpoH2IRj8

What do you do when you have no ideas for a photo shoot? This is something we will all face from time to time, and today we are talking about some great techniques on how to come up with ideas, pre-visualize, make props, and work out the details of a shoot before a shoot happens.

Check out the full post at: http://phlearn.com/how-to-come-up-with-great-ideas

Today’s Episode Timeline

0:30 -Deciding what Amelia will be on Twitter
0:40 – Shout Out to Chad North for sending my an awesome shirt
1:30 – Going over everything we are going to be using for our new shoot
2:30 – Sketching out a shoot idea
4:20 – Great tips on how to make your sketch come to life
9:00 – How to make a miniature for a photo shoot
10:20 – The best ways to come up with ideas!
12:10 – Time for the photo shoot!
12:30 – Using a Gradient Map to Color Your Image
13:40 – Extreme Power with the Channel Mixer
17:30 – Showing Color Depth vs Hue/Sat
18:30 – Everything Else!
Amelia Comes To Phlearn

We are really excited to have Amelia Fletcher on the Phlearn Team full time. She will be working as our content coordinator, basically making sure that a lot more awesome happens. This means photo shoots, videos, behind the scenes, production, tutorials, images, and more!

My Favorite Way To Come Up With Ideas

Everyone has their own ritual for coming up with ideas for photo shoots. They all seem to have something in common, you can’t force ideas.

I have a way of forcing myself that is not forcing myself. It always results in a plethora of ideas, and they are always fresh. Basically I just start drawing on paper, lines shapes, and with nothing in mind. In the same way that you can make familiar objects come to life in looking at clouds, your brain will try to make some sense of the madness.

In the process of making randomness, your brain adds order, and you will actually see something in the chaos. This is great because it is often VERY suprising what you see. It can be something you would have never thought of on your own.

How Do You Do It?

Amelia says the shower is the perfect time for ideas to come to her, what works for you?? .

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We cover everything from Photoshop tutorials, photography tutorials, how to videos and more!

Caleb Spillyards Interview – A Phlearn Video Tutorial

http://youtu.be/sG8DwFqFqjc

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Today we take a break from the Halloween chaos to bring you the greatest hump day treat ever, Caleb Spillyards.

Caleb is an up and coming photographer who has his hand in about everything. He is an artist at heart like a lot of us are, and is finding his way through focusing on one thing and doing it well. In this interview we talk about expanding through social connections, business, art and more. .

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We cover everything from Photoshop tutorials, photography tutorials, how to videos and more!

Finding A Focal Point In Image – A Phlearn Video Tutorial

http://youtu.be/A0qtykxKsf4

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Today we are going into the 2nd part of editing fundamentals -Finding a focal point, and why we edit in the first place. These are things not many people talk about, but they should be at the root of everything you do in Photoshop.

We go over various ways in which a viewer’s eyes will be attracted to a certain part of an image. These include Saturation, Difference between Tone, Focus, Sharpness, & Composition. The great news is that Photoshop gives you the tools necessary to change all of these things to help you get your point across. In the end you will want a clear idea of where the viewer should look at your image. This episode is all about helping you do that. .

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For more tutorials and how to videos check out our extensive Photoshop and photography video channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/PhlearnLLC
We cover everything from Photoshop tutorials, photography tutorials, how to videos and more!