What Am I Doing?

Greetings fellow shooters! Tuesday Ambassador Stanley, here welcoming you to another Tuesday.  It has been a good six, maybe seven, weeks since I started writing Tuesday blogs and I think it is about time to let my readers know what I have been up to lately in school. As I am nearing the end of another set of courses, I will be met with new classes to which I am sure will take its toll on me in the coming weeks. So what classes will I be leaving within the week you ask? Well Studio Photography and Marketing are the two classes I will be departing from and to be quite honest, I did not find those classes to be quite as hard or time consuming as I had been told by many. However, I guess not having a full-time job can leave a person to have boat loads of time to do whatever they desire.

Yes, I know I should have taken Studio Photography earlier in my studies but having financial stress prevented me from taking that class in the order recommended by The Art Institute. The out of order class did not stop me from continuing with my studies though, so that is one big plus on my part. However, that is the story of my life. Usually when something does not go right I just have pay not mind to it and move on to the next. If the opportunity arises again then I should know what to do for the next time. Right?

With that said, I am sure you are itching to see some photos of my prior work in Studio Photography. Keep in strict mind that I am a person that has to learn to crawl before walking as you can clearly see in my photos. You will see how much different these images have changed over the course of five and half weeks. Now these assignments were basically exercises for our final project, which by the way will be posted by the time the course ends. For the last shot in this series you will see a multi light scenario where we had to initially freeze our subject and move it all in the same frame. It’s a very cool technique that I am sure I will exploit later on in my career.

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In a previous blog of mine I mentioned the need to test your equipment and make sure everything is working as intended in order to prevent any unfortunate circumstances with school. What I did not mention is that it if you do test your equipment, not only do you prevent situations that could bar you from class, but you prevent unfortunate situations when it comes to your job, if you have one, even yourself. I figure that if you are in school for something that you enjoy doing, then it should help to drive that passion even further. So the next time you receive that sexy piece of glass, or a boat load of lights, maybe literally, then test that equipment out that you love so much! I know I do. And as always, thanks for reading.

- Tues. Amb. Stanley

Oh ya, my next classes will be Editorial Photography and Portraiture I. Now I do not have a good feeling about timelines with these classes. Let's hope I can keep up with the blogs in the coming weeks. 0_0 Please leave any questions and

comments below.

What Do You Drive?

Greetings fellow shooters! Tuesday Ambassador Stanley, here welcoming you to another Tuesday. So what inspires you? I know what you are going to say and it is probably pictures. Actually I would have probably given the same answer as well. In this case, though, it is not the answer I am looking for.

Maybe viewing paintings is your soul source of your inspiration. Perhaps you are one who likes a good book or one who fathoms about the layouts of a particular magazine. Usually a great flick is something people never turn down. How about Youtube, music or even video games? What drives you to do what you do? Whatever it may be, it goes to show in the work that you do each and every day.

Key point here is you should always follow the sources of inspiration that drive you to be where you are at today. I mean, without it, what in the world would you create if there is no drive? It does not matter when, where or how you go about to get your dosage of inspiration. Day or night, rain or shine, happy, sad or angry, we all need to keep up with what inspires us. The things that inspire us are what help to keep us creative and for the most part sane, depending on who you ask.

World of Warcraft by Blizzard Entertainment 

So what inspires me? Well I have many avenues of inspiration whether it is music, movies, video games or even other peoples’ work. Perhaps for the longest time my total source of inspiration was from video games. However, for the past few years now gaming has been nothing but a past time for me. I recall playing an overly addictive game called World of Warcraft or World of Warcrack for the fully aware. Now I just call it World of Warcrap because I have my reasons. I am sure the vast majority of you, if not all, have heard about the game or maybe even played it from time, to time and time again. Why did I play it? It was not mainly for the aspect of wasting time, albeit it did, but for the simple fact of the in-game landscapes. Yes, I got photographic inspiration from a silly make believe game because it was a creation of someone’s artistic vision of which I do not play anymore.

So where am I going with this? Let’s just say that I’m writing this to bring to your attention the fact that nobody should completely neglect artists’ creative and highly inspirational works because then you will never know what you have been ignoring. Even if it is just a blog you like to follow, it is a source of inspiration that drives you to think and create. So what inspires you? I would love to read what inspires you in the comments below. And as always, thanks for reading.

- Tues. Amb. Stanley

Image - Entertainment, Blizzard. "World of Warcraft’s Seventh Anniversary! - World of Warcraft." Us.battle.net, 2014. Web. 25 Feb 2014. <http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/3968197/World_of_Warcraft’s_Seventh_Anniversary-11_18_2011>