WRITTEN BY: STEVE HOLLOWAY
Here’s how I turn skills into an instinctive working process.
1) Practice/learn one skill at a time. No matter how many new skills I read about, I usually pick one skill at a time to practice/learn.
2) Use the skill in the field. Often. I use a new skill often enough in the field to decide if it fits my process. Then, if I’m adding a new skill to my process, I use it over and over until I use it instinctively.
3) Bring you own “voice” to a skill. Even if I start by copying an idea I want to emulate, I find repeating the skill often enough inevitably brings my own “voice” to that skill.
There are exceptions. One that comes to mind is when I was developing two skills described in David Mamet’s book On Directing Film.
The skills are based on answering the questions, “Where do I put the camera?” and “What do I tell the actors (people in the scene/shot)?” These were two skills that didn’t overlap and made sense to take into the field together.
If you try taking two new skills into the field together and they aren’t complimenting each other, pick one and come back to the other later.
That’s it. A short story that could be the most important.
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Introduction
Become a storyteller
Technology
- 02A Digital evolution.
- 02B Annie Leibovitz.
- 02C From Batman to the iPhone.
- 02D Henri Cartier-Bresson’s Leica.
- 02E Moving from film to digital to iPhone.
- 02F The self portrait series.
- 03A Working with light.
- 03B The scout.
- 03C Shooting during the golden hour.
- 03D Photographing people.
- 03E Details, shadows, shapes and textures.
- 03F Plate shots and reflections.
- 03G Feed your passions.
- 03H People and food, two favorites.
- 03I On the road.
- 03J Wall art (it’s not what you think).
- 03K Transitional images.
- 03L Night photography.
- 04B Assemblages and abstractions.
- 04C Change the composition of an image.
- 04D Color correction vs color grading.
- 04E Create motion with Live Photo.
- 04F Resize images and retain detail.
- 04G Software and skill building resources.
- 04H On device apps.
- 04I Offboard resources.
- 05A Two key iPhone features.
- 05B Camera and light kit ideas.
- 05C Copied on iPhone.
- 05D Learning post production.
- 05E Designing with type.
- 05F Learning from cinema.
- 05G The three lens solution.
