Unlocking Your Creativity
Learn how to get more creative and make photos you love! Join Sam Haddix as he takes you through a pragmatic approach to expanding your creativity. No matter where you are on your photographic journey you can always benefit from techniques that can help ignite new passion for your work. Sam’s approach incorporates the power of analog technologies and your own powers of analysis, so grab a pen, some paper, and a willingness to exercise a creative muscle you didn’t know you had.
Release Date: 2021-06-11
Lessons
Introduction
Sam introduces the class and discusses what will be covered in the lessons that follow.
Duration: 3 mins 40 seconds
Knowing What You Like
Knowing what you like and why you like it is the first step in discovering your creativity.
Duration: 6 mins 37 seconds
Keep Narrowing Down
Photography is a subtractive art, where you are tasked with removing everything from the frame except for what you want to be seen.
Duration: 7 mins 23 seconds
Analyzing Photos: Rob Foldy
Look at different photographs and write down what you like and what you don’t like.
Duration: 11 mins 16 seconds
Analyzing Photos: Scott Kelby
Follow the same process as the previous lesson to jot down your likes and dislikes.
Duration: 6 mins 0 seconds
Analyzing Photos: Matias Ezcurra
Follow the same process as the previous lesson to jot down your likes and dislikes.
Duration: 8 mins 12 seconds
Analyzing Photos: Tracy Sweeny
Follow the same process as the previous lesson to jot down your likes and dislikes.
Duration: 7 mins 5 seconds
Analyzing Photos: Gilmar Smith
Follow the same process as the previous lesson to jot down your likes and dislikes.
Duration: 9 mins 16 seconds
Analyzing Photos: Kaylee Greer
Follow the same process as the previous lesson to jot down your likes and dislikes.
Duration: 5 mins 41 seconds
Analyzing Photos: Sam Haddix
Building on the previous lessons, you should be putting together a solid list of what you like.
Duration: 7 mins 11 seconds
Word Cloud
After reviewing and analyzing the photos you’ll have compiled a huge list of things that you like, and you take it a step further by entering them all into a word cloud generator for a visual.
Duration: 2 mins 0 seconds
Limitation Excerises
Learn how to narrow your focus to a small portion of what you like and give you a creative place to start.
Duration: 5 mins 14 seconds
Putting it Into Practice
Putting his money where his mouth is, Sam pulled 3 words out of a hat, and headed off to create new work.
Duration: 8 mins 53 seconds
Conclusion
Sam wraps up the class with some closing thoughts to help you move forward.
Duration: 0 mins 57 seconds