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Getting A Head

On March 6, 2020 By Peter VoyvodicIn Drawing Challenge3 Comments

After my first self portrait attempt, I'm trying to deconstruct the process and to establish a meta-learning protocol for how to improve over the next month. Some stages will emphasize basic fundamentals, such as drawing shapes, that are universally applicable to any kind of drawing. Others are more specific to drawing the human form, and …

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Self Portrait Sketch: Part I

On March 2, 2020 By Peter VoyvodicIn Drawing Challenge2 Comments

For the first day of this challenge, inspired by another blogger's challenge, I thought I would give a self-portrait sketch a try. That way I can do another one at the end of the month and compare. So I found an old picture and in 40 minutes came up with this: Day 1: First Self …

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Guerrilla Journalism

On February 26, 2020February 27, 2020 By Peter VoyvodicIn Photography ChallengeLeave a comment

So yesterday evening got interesting. After I got home from work I had some quick dinner and then grabbed my gym bag and my camera. The plan had been to take a couple quick pictures around town and then head to the gym. When I was walking toward the Prefecture, I saw a bunch of …

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Shutter Delay

On February 24, 2020 By Peter VoyvodicIn Photography ChallengeLeave a comment

One of the challenges edits photos on my laptop is that the anti-reflective coating is coming off in some places. This creates blemishes that are sometimes hard to tell if they are part of the photo or on the screen until I scroll the photo to see if the blemish moves as well. It is …

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Spotty Reception

On February 22, 2020 By Peter VoyvodicIn Photography Challenge1 Comment

So a few days ago I was looking through my photos and noticed that I had some spots on them. UFOs in the sky? To be totally honest, I have seen these in some shots for a while now, but I didn't know how to fix it. I figured it was either on my lens …

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From Camera to Instagram

On February 20, 2020February 21, 2020 By Peter VoyvodicIn Photography ChallengeLeave a comment

Wow, more than two thirds done with February already! Feels like it has gone much faster than January did, but time is weird a lot of the time. The last couple days I've been watching more tutorial videos and doing a deep spring-cleanesque organization of my hard drive. But I've developed a very rudimentary process …

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Introduction to Adobe Lightroom

On February 18, 2020 By Peter VoyvodicIn Photography ChallengeLeave a comment

So at the encouragement of some friends, I decided to try the free 7-day trial of Adobe Lightroom. It seems to have many of the adjustment characteristics of Camera Raw in Photoshop, but the interface feels much cleaner than at least my CS6 version. Additionally, I like how it helps to select photos upon upload …

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Self Portrait

On February 16, 2020 By Peter VoyvodicIn Photography ChallengeLeave a comment

Recently I went through a Self Portraits class on Skillshare. I was inspired by the creator's upbeat attitude, as well as some of the camera placements she used for the shots, like putting the camera in the dryer or refrigerator. It reminded me of watching Good Eats, in which Alton Brown was one of the …

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Cityscape Photography

On February 14, 2020 By Peter VoyvodicIn Photography Challenge1 Comment

So I thought I would start looking at some new shooting styles by taking online classes. To begin, I started with this class from Skillshare on Cityscape Photography. In it, the instructor goes out into the Financial District of New York to take three styles of shots: SymmetryThe Look-UpThe Stride-By Afterwards I grabbed my camera …

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Work in Progress

On February 12, 2020 By Peter VoyvodicIn Photography ChallengeLeave a comment

Not a ton to report on today. I've been looking at some Skillshare classes and YouTube videos for 'microproject' ideas. Since I work well with constraints, I feel like that will help foster creativity while adding diversity through doing a variety of them. Otherwise, just trying to do some research on the broader arcs of …

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