My Education Syllabus for 2024
Description:
I’d like to develop a creative skillset that will nurture and develop a creative lifestyle, to include photography in digital and analog forms. Apply other genres of creativity i.e., watercolors, encaustic, acrylic paints, pastels, or any other mediums that will feed my creative self. This will be accomplished with pursuit of videos, books, projects, and critiques.
What I hope to learn:
- How to live photographically creative life
- Intermediate Photoshop skills
- Advanced Lightroom use
- Mixed media art utilizing my photography
Readings and resources:
Books
- Camera manuals
- Sony alpha a77ii, David D Busch
- Photographer’s Guide to the Sony DSC-RX100 V, Alexander S White
- Creating a creative life
- Zen Camera, David Ulrich
- The Mindful Photographer, David Ulrich
- The Creative Act a way of being, Rick Rubin
- It’s Never Too Late to Begin Again, Julia Cameron
- The Creative Habit, Twyla Tharp
- The War of Art, Stephen Pressfield
- Software the technical and practical
- Lightroom a Complete Course and Compendium of features, Jeff Carlson
- Photoshop a Complete Course and Compendium of features, Steve Laskevitch
- Lightroom Classic the missing FAQ, Victoria Bampton
- Photoshop CC the missing manual, Lesa Snider
- Photography technique
- Composition & Photography, Harold Davis
- Making Photographs, Ibarionex Perello
- From Dawn to Dusk, Ross Hodinott & Mark Bauer
- Camera & Craft, Andy Batt, Candace Dobro & Jodie Steen
- Finding assignments
- The Photographer’s Playbook, Jason Fulford & Gregory Halpern
- 52 Assingnments photographic exposure, Antony Zacharias
- Plus things that will arise in the other reading listed above
- The Photographer’s Playbook
Videos
- Phlearn learning paths
- Photography for the U of S photography club
- Lightroom
- Photoshop
- Everyday Compositing
- Special Effects
- Magical Compositing
- My Photo Artistic Life
- Photoshop Artistry, already completed
- AWAKE
- Kaizen
- 21 Days to Creative Abundance (summer?)
- Bring your own laptop
- Introduction to Lightroom CC for the U of S photography club
- Carl Taylor
- Introduction to photography for the U of S photography club
- Jeff Curto History of photography on YouTube
- Youtube videos as needed
- Udemy
- Skillshare
Assignments:
- Apply lessons from Zen Camera as they arise i.e., taking 100-200 a week
- Writing essays on topics that I’m inspired by from Zen Camera and AWAKE
- Maintain website weekly with essays and photo galleries
- Weekly photo assignments as taken from the Photographers Playbook
- Participate in and mentor the U of S photography club
- Weekly library visits to study photographers of interest
Where am I to start?
- Shoot pictures everyday with either my phone or camera. But have to shoot at least twice with my camera
- Participate in the U of S photography club
- Zen Camera and write about things I learn from it for the website
- Lightroom and Photoshop Complete Course and Compendium of Feature books
- Phlearn Photoshop and Lightroom course videos
- Participate in the project of the week
The next post will be a list of things that I want to incorporate into my life. Virtues, qualities, life skills, classes, books that I want to assimilate and practice in the coming year. Some of it will be redundant, meaning that the books and videos above will be listed again. But this is meant to be a challenge for me to make major changes in my life. And this list is the path that I’ve chosen.