Oct 26 2009

A Not Recap of the PhotoPlus Orgy

Category: Creative Process, The Industry, ViewpointEthan G. Salwen @ 10:06 am

AC_Blog_PPE_CrowdThe PhotoPlus Expo officially ended on Saturday, but my experience didn’t come to an end until yesterday, with my visit to the studio of commercial photographer Andrew Matusik. My PPE experience was less frantic and more fantastic than I had anticipated.

I think this was simply because I did myself a favor and realized — before the madness began — that I should focus on quality over quantity. So my personal mantra was, “If you learn just one thing today and connect with just one person, this will be a success.” And a success it was.

I won’t try to recap my whole PPE experience — way, way too much to share — but I will give you a taste by simply listing some of the people and ideas that came my way:

The best part of PPE was spending real quality time — and enjoying good eats — with photographers I already knew, including Gail Mooney, Tom Kelly, Richard Anderson Continue reading “A Not Recap of the PhotoPlus Orgy”

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May 22 2008

An Utterly Inspiring View for Improving Digital Creativity

Category: Books, Creative ProcessEthan G. Salwen @ 7:16 am

ACMF_080522_1With her stunningly beautiful and truly inspiring Window Seat: The Art of Digital Photography & Creative Thinking (O’Reilly Media, 2006), Julieanne Kost has created one of the very best books on the topic of the creative process of digital photography. It is safe to say that utterly unique and provocative book Kost, who is Adobe’s Senior Digital Imaging Evangelist, will motivate and help focus your digital image making efforts regardless of your skill level or photographic specialty.

Window Seat is structured around a portfolio of more than 150 images that Kost photographed out of commercial airplane windows while traveling for business over a five-year period. In her book, Kost couples her digitally-made images with a description of her creative process. The premise is simple. But there is power in simplicity when a project is executed with the elegance found in Window Seat.
In producing Window Seat, Kost risked creating a book that could have easily been labeled trite. But taking risks is one of the most important Continue reading “An Utterly Inspiring View for Improving Digital Creativity”

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