by Donald Giannatti | Jan 23, 2017 | Featured, P52 LE Edition
CHESS as a Business Strategy We read about chess masters. There are movies made about chess and those who play. An esoteric, and definitively challenging game of wits and skill. Like business. Your assignment this week comes from a business magazine (Forbes, The...
by Donald Giannatti | Jan 19, 2017 | Featured, PROJECT "52"
From some of the students in the 8 Week Black and White Class comes this selection of ten images that really look like film and paper. The assignment was to make sure the image was designed to look as though it was shot as a black and white, not simply a converted...
by Donald Giannatti | Jan 18, 2017 | Behind the Image, Featured
This is an ongoing feature of Lighting Essentials, a Place for Photographers. We will be looking at images on a consistent basis. The images will all be work from my 8 Week Workshops or Project 52 Pros. These critiques will be short, but very informative and full of...
by Donald Giannatti | Jan 15, 2017 | Behind the Image, Featured, Image Critique
This is an ongoing feature of Lighting Essentials, a Place for Photographers. We will be looking at images on a consistent basis. The images will all be work from my 8 Week Workshops or Project 52 Pros. These critiques will be short, but very informative and full of...
by Donald Giannatti | Dec 31, 2016 | Featured, LE News and Info
Lighthouse: Maine Coast at Sunset A Lightroom / Photoshop Video ; I recently rediscovered this image from a shoot I did in Maine a few years ago. I really wanted this image to work, but after trying it several times it just didn’t have the snap I wanted. A few...
by Donald Giannatti | Dec 30, 2016 | Featured, LE News and Info, Lighting Class
EVERYTHING REFLECTS. Let me say that again. Everything reflects. Some things reflect more than others. Some surfaces are more reflective than others. But since everything reflects, we are sometimes presenting what that subject reflects rather than ‘bouncing’ light...