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8-Week Beverage Photography Workshop

This is one of the most popular classes I offer. You will learn so much about how to see a shot before you make it, then find details that will help push your photography to a higher level. Beverage photography is a combination of art and technology with a bit of magic inspiration. If you are a tabletop, product, or food photographer, you will benefit from taking this class.

SPECIAL OFFER: A free workshop to help you find clients for your work will be held two weeks after this class ends. It is specifically for the members of this 8 Week class.

The Collective is a large format book of photography designed to show photographs from members of Project 52. This is our 2024 Edition. If you want to download it, this is a link for the PDF. Download the two previous versions below.

52 A JOURNAL OF PHOTOGRAPHY

ISSUE ONE

ISSUE ONE PDF LINK

52 A JOURNAL OF PHOTOGRAPHY

ISSUE TWO

ISSUE TWO PDF LINK

52 A JOURNAL OF PHOTOGRAPHY

ISSUE THREE

ISSUE THREE PDF LINK

52 A JOURNAL OF PHOTOGRAPHY

ISSUE FOUR

ISSUE FOUR PDF LINK

THESE PDF COPIES ARE FREE COURTESY LIGHTING ESSENTIALS AND THE TALENTED PHOTOGRAPHERS FEATURED INSIDE.

TABLETOP MAGIC ASSIGNMENT FIVE

TABLETOP MAGIC ASSIGNMENT FIVE

A local restaurant has decided to run a special on chocolate on their menu for the next month. They need something that says, no – SCREAMS Chocolate!!! People or still life or cute little furry animals or fish… … well… probably not fish… but you get the idea.   The...

24 FRAMES IN NOVEMBER

24 FRAMES IN NOVEMBER

ANNOUNCING: 24 FRAMES IN NOVEMBER Our annual tip of the hat to Analog is underway next week.We will have some judges.Prizes WILL be awarded. SUBMIT IMAGES. CLOSES ON DECEMBER 1, 2020. No earlier than November 25, please. Please attach one single image and the contact...

A STUDY IN MINIATURE (2019 SUMMER SCHOOL)

A STUDY IN MINIATURE (2019 SUMMER SCHOOL)

HOW I MAKE THE MINI ME IMAGES BY TAMMY BOGESTRAND The start is usually simply an image or idea that forms in my twisted brain. I should really sketch my ideas, but I never do. I do these totally alone and I don’t have a green screen. Shooting in full sun is never...

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