My “Recharging Your Creativity” workshop was a great success and also lot of fun. I had a terrific group of photographers that were willing to experiment and try new techniques in an effort to expand their personal growth.
In addition to my Photoshop lessons and demos everyone was willing to work together and share ideas and resources. That’s what I love about these type of workshops; the sharing that goes on between likeminded photographers. It’s easy to create in a space where collaboration and experimentation is undefined.
We visited some of Charleston’s favorite low country photo spots. In a town like Charleston it’s impossible not to see a photo everywhere you go. I gave photo assignments and themes throughout our time together. So many creative images were captured. I tried to select one from each participant to share. I will be sharing those in an upcoming post once I collect them from everyone.
The group worked on creative blurs, B&W, composites, abstracts, multiple exposures both in-camera and in post processing, etc… Again, it was lots of fun. I can’t wait to announce next years trip! Below are a couple of my images that I processed from the trip. But just a few because I want my clients images to reflect our time together—so stay tuned for those.
I created a softness with both a bright exposure and an applied filter (peachy look) to add some softness and color toning.
The wind and Spanish moss helped to create the softness for this Camellia image. In post processing, I added a bit more softening.
I used an infrared converted camera to create this look for this shot.
This is a composite of 3 images. One soft, one sharp and one leafy image to create the look.