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Project52 – What am I talking about???
Several people have asked me recently “Mike, what exactly is Project52?”. Simply put, it is a 52 week project packed full of fun and challenging photography assignments that are designed to prepare an emerging photographer to go pro. This project is the brain child of Arizona photographer and lighting workshop teacher Don Giannatti. I originally…
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Project52 – Chocolate
The latest photography assignment that Don Giannatti of Lighting Essentials gave us for Project52 was to take a photograph of chocolate. Yup, plain old chocolate.Don keeps coming up with great assignments for this project – assignments that feel real, push me to try something new, and keep my focused on my goal. Become a better…
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Project52 – Weather
As a photographer participating in Project 52 run by Don Giannatti each week we are presented with a new assignment. We then have 2 weeks to complete that assignment, so I am often juggling 2 assignments at the same time. Not a bad thing, as just like any other profession in the world dealing with…
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Project52 – Still Life
For assignment number 3 of Project 52, a great photography learning project run by Photographer Don Gianatti over at Lighting Essentials we had to create a still life photograph. It sounds simple and straight forward doesn’t it? This should be a piece of cake! And like the commercials always say, “But wait! There’s more!” Isn’t…
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Project52 – Photographing a Stranger
I spent the day today working on a portrait session for a young man, and completing assignment number two in the Project52 program that I am working on. The assignment was the difficult task of photographing a stranger. While I have known the young mans mom for more then 20 years, this is the first…