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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 – Recipe Ingredients
It has been a while since I have posted here, life has just been a bit on the busy side. I am still keeping busy, and hope to get caught up with my posting over the next couple of days. Project52’s latest assignment, number 8, was to shoot the ingredients for a salad. Sounds simple:…
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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 – Entrepreneur
The latest assignment at Project 52 was to photograph a local entrepreneur that won the fictitious “Entrepreneur of the Year award. The assignment came with specific instructions as to the format of the shoot and included a layout of the text that would be placed over the image. We were free to fake the entire…