Happy Friday! Hope that you all had a great week and if you are in town scoot on over to the Des Moines Arts Festival this weekend for stellar art, street food, and live music and then back to our house to relax on the boat. Any takers?:)
I always feel that after a long week that I could have been a bit more productive and this week is no exception. I was super excited to debut Libby & Jean Feather Flower Bouquets and am already dreaming up plans for the next round of them. I spent a lot of time researching photography sites and compiling inspirational product marketing pics. I need to get my hind end in gear and get my promo pictures taken of all of my products and compile a lookbook. This is my main priority this next week! Gotta get going on this!
I am also entering week 2 of my Bella Pop Photography class and spent quite a bit of time this week traipsing through the yard and the garage trying to take funky pictures and play with my camera. This whole first week was really about learning how to create a correct manual exposure and I'm feeling pretty excited that I even know what that means now:)
I turned in the following three favorite practice shots from the week for review for the class.
When all of our practice shots have been submitted then the instructor, Brandy, goes through and provides feedback on our images. I received my feedback last night and I have to say...it made my week!!
Im going to back up a little ways here and just state that as a Creative Apparel Design graduate, criticism is no new thing. Criticism, and truthfully tough criticism, was what we were conditioned to expect while completing my studies in the apparel design world. Now, constructive criticism and just plain criticizing are two completely different vehicles. One can inspire additional creative drive and a desire to succeed. The other can inspire fear and permanent self doubt. I will say that much of the criticism that I received while in school was much of the latter. Now, I will also state that I know that my blog can be read by anyone and yet I will stand by the fact that I think that much of my own self doubt and personal loathe of sewing is due to the fact that rather than inspire personal creativity and a drive for success I was conditioned to be constantly critical of my work and although not a bad method, I do believe it was poor delivery. That being said, when I received Brandy's feedback of my photos I was surprised, yes there was criticism there, but it was constructive! She commented on improving my technique but also recognized what I did have a good handle on which was creativity and composition. I re-read my feedback about 3 times with the biggest grin on my face. No the pictures are not perfect and yes I am still learning but the difference here was that Brandy gave feedback in a way that inspired me to want to impress her. And most importantly, instilled confidence in my own creative view. Like I said, made my whole week right there!
Hope you all have a fabulous weekend and get out and do something you enjoy!
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