How It All Started
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PHOTOGRAPHY CONFERENCE 2021 RECAP!
MEET THE SPEAKERS & EDUCATORS
Craig Strong
Jyo Bhamidipati
Ally Frantz
Annick Paradis
Susan Currie
Robert Pugh
Jennifer Carr
Kate Hailey
Charlotte E. Johnson
Emma Davis
Holly Jeakins
Nostalgic Imagery with Lensbaby
Kristen Ryan
Mara Magyarosi-Laytner
Evolving Your Portfolio Creatively
Regina Boston
Shelly Corbett
Sofia Sitnikiene
Michael Anthony
Host & MC
MEET THE SPEAKERS & EDUCATORS
Craig Strong
Using Your Fear-Compass to Discover What Matters Most
Jyo Bhamidipati
Ally Frantz
Annick Paradis
Susan Currie
Robert Pugh
Jennifer Carr
Kate Hailey
Charlotte E. Johnson
Emma Davis
Hollie Jeakins
Nostalgic Imagery with Lensbaby
Kristen Ryan
Mara Magyarosi-Laytner
Evolving Your Portfolio Creatively
Regina Boston
Shelly Corbett
Sofia Sitnikiene
Michael Anthony
Host & MC
How do you #ShootExtraordinary?
COURSE OVERVIEW:
How It All Started
Craig Strong, Lensbaby Founder
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Craig Strong, in his early 30s, accepted the challenge of reading a personal development book a week and it changed his life. He knew he needed to understand himself, money and business if he were to live the life he wanted. Over the course of the next five years, Strong switched from trading his time for money to co-founding a company to sell his oddly fascinating photographic innovations. Soon, Lensbaby and Strong were surrounded by a passionate following of adventurous photographers. With a constant hunger to learn and a drive to outrun the anxiety that has often threatened to sideline him and his career, Strong found strength and hope in the community that developed within and around Lensbaby, Inc.. Frustration and failure have been his most influential teachers.
Images from the Heart that Capture the Moment.
Sofia Sitnikiene
In this video, Sofia will discuss her style, her creative process, as well as her favorite subjects. She will show you how she takes pictures of nature and her family using natural light, how she uses Lensbaby lenses, and how she edits her photographs.
Sofia Sitnikiene is an award-winning fine art photographer based in the United kingdom. She is also a Lensbaby Ambassador, a Click Pro Elite, a Hello Artist and a mentor.
Sofia graduated from the University of the Arts London with a Master of Arts (MA) Graphic Design Communication and is an experienced macro, portrait, and street photographer. Combining all of her training and background in fine art and graphic design has helped her develop into the photographer she is today. Being constantly inspired by emotion, light, details, and nature, as well as by dreams, music, poetry and time, moves Sofia to strive to capture an honest reflection of how she views the world. Her work has been published and exhibited internationally.
Lensbaby and the Land: Creating Extraordinary Landscape Photographs
Jennifer Carr
Nostalgic Imagery with Lensbaby.
Come behind the scenes with me as I share my process of creating nostalgic images that tell a story and evoke emotion. See first hand how I use Lensbaby lenses and Omni Filters and learn the reason why I prefer to mainly work with Lensbaby lenses. Further, see how I edit to enhance feelings of nostalgia while I’ll also share other final images from the session.
The Art of Toy Photography.
Shelly Corbett
Images from the Heart that Capture the Moment.
Lensbaby and the Art of Photographic Storytelling.
Emma Davis
Pushing Your Creativity with
Long-Term Projects.
Kristen Ryan
Channeling Color and Light
with Lensbaby.
Ally Frantz
Evolving Your Portfolio Creatively.
Light Infusion: My Creative Process to Tell Vivid Stories.
Annick Paradis
Making Magic Indoors.
Travel & Street Photography with Lensbaby.
Kate Hailey
Truth is Beauty...The Dharma of Lensbabies.
Susan Currie
Creating Art Through Macro Nature Photography.
Regina Boston
Creative Light.
Robert Pugh
COURSE OVERVIEW:
Using Your
Fear-Compass to Discover What
Matters Most
Craig Strong, Lensbaby Founder
Craig Strong, in his early 30s, accepted the challenge of reading a personal development book a week and it changed his life. He knew he needed to understand himself, money and business if he were to live the life he wanted. Over the course of the next five years, Strong switched from trading his time for money to co-founding a company to sell his oddly fascinating photographic innovations. Soon, Lensbaby and Strong were surrounded by a passionate following of adventurous photographers. With a constant hunger to learn and a drive to outrun the anxiety that has often threatened to sideline him and his career, Strong found strength and hope in the community that developed within and around Lensbaby, Inc.. Frustration and failure have been his most influential teachers.
Images from the Heart that Capture the Moment.
Sofia Sitnikiene
In this video, Sofia will discuss her style, her creative process, as well as her favorite subjects. She will show you how she takes pictures of nature and her family using natural light, how she uses Lensbaby lenses, and how she edits her photographs.
Sofia Sitnikiene is an award-winning fine art photographer based in the United kingdom. She is also a Lensbaby Ambassador, a Click Pro Elite, a Hello Artist and a mentor.
Sofia graduated from the University of the Arts London with a Master of Arts (MA) Graphic Design Communication and is an experienced macro, portrait, and street photographer. Combining all of her training and background in fine art and graphic design has helped her develop into the photographer she is today. Being constantly inspired by emotion, light, details, and nature, as well as by dreams, music, poetry and time, moves Sofia to strive to capture an honest reflection of how she views the world. Her work has been published and exhibited internationally.
Lensbaby and the Land: Creating Extraordinary Landscape Photographs
Jennifer Carr
Nostalgic Imagery with Lensbaby.
Come behind the scenes with me as I share my process of creating nostalgic images that tell a story and evoke emotion. See first hand how I use Lensbaby lenses and Omni Filters and learn the reason why I prefer to mainly work with Lensbaby lenses. Further, see how I edit to enhance feelings of nostalgia while I’ll also share other final images from the session.
The Art of Toy Photography.
Shelly Corbett
Fine Art Photography with Lensbaby
Lensbaby and the Art of Photographic Storytelling.
Emma Davis
Pushing Your Creativity with
Long-Term Projects.
Kristen Ryan
Channeling Color and Light
with Lensbaby.
Ally Frantz
Evolving Your Portfolio Creatively.
Light Infusion: My Creative Process to Tell Vivid Stories.
Annick Paradis
Making Magic Indoors.
Travel & Street Photography with Lensbaby.
Kate Hailey
Truth is Beauty...The Dharma of Lensbabies.
Susan Currie
Creating Art Through Macro Nature Photography.
Regina Boston
Creative Light.
Robert Pugh
WHAT TO EXPECT
Live Panel Discussion
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SCHEDULE: Each day begins at 2:00pm PST
DAY 1 | December 7th, 2021
Craig Strong | 2:00pm PST | Using Your Fear-Compass to Discover What Matters Most |
Craig Strong, Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer at Lensbaby, Inc., will share how his fear of failure as a young photojournalist led him to grow in his ability to share, through pictures, his expanding vision of the world around him.
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Shelly Corbett |
The Art of Toy Photography |
Whether you're a mom with a house full of kids or a pop culture aficionado, there are probably a few toys in your life. Why not make these colorful and whimsical pieces of plastic your photographic muse? With the help of the Lensbaby Composer Pro II system she is going to show you how to bring those toys to life!
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Hollie Jeakins
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Nostalgic Imagery with Lensbaby |
Come behind the scenes with she shares her process of creating nostalgic images that tell a story and evoke emotion. See first hand how she use Lensbaby lenses and Omni Filters and learn the reason why I prefer to mainly work with Lensbaby lenses. Further, see how she edits to enhance feelings of nostalgia while I’ll also share other final images from the session.
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Craig Strong and Kathleen Clemons |
Join Craig Strong and Kathleen Clemons as they have an in-depth discussion. |
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Regina Boston |
Creating Art Through Macro Nature Photography |
The video will show how Regins shoots both indoor and outdoors with natural lighting. She will go over equipment used such as LB lenses, macro filters, and extension tubes. In addition, she will share a technique called reverse freelensing to capture macro images without a macro lens.
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DAY 2 | December 8th, 2021
Jyotsna Bhamidipati
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2:00pm PST | Making Magic Indoors. |
In this video presentation, you will learn all about harnessing the power of natural light indoors. We will cover the best and creative ways to use available natural light indoors while also embracing the power of blur by Lensbaby lenses indoors!
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Sofia Sitnikiene |
Images from the Heart that Capture the Moment. |
In this video, Sofia will discuss her style, her creative process, as well as her favorite subjects. She will show you how she takes pictures of nature and her family using natural light, how she uses Lensbaby lenses, and how she edits her photographs.
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Craig and Ute Reckhorn | Join Craig Strong and Ute Reckhorn as they have an in-depth discussion. |
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Ally Frantz |
Channeling Color and Light with Lensbaby |
In this presentation, Ally will discuss how she uses some of her favorite Lensbaby lenses and OMNI wands to enhance light and add flare and color to her images. She will provide a behind the scenes look into shooting and editing, and will guide you through her creative process.
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Jennifer Carr |
Lensbaby and the Land: Creating Extraordinary Landscape Photographs |
In this presentation, Jennifer will show you how she creates extraordinary landscape photographs using her favorite Lensbaby tools. Using creative blur to isolate, enhance and add depth, she will demonstrate how you can use Lensbaby to elevate your landscape work from traditional to creative. Jennifer will walk you through her image creation process from start to finish.
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DAY 3 | December 9th, 2021
Annick Paradis |
2:00pm PST | Light Infusion: My Creative Process to Tell Vivid Stories |
In this video, Annick will show you how to infuse light in your images, in camera or in post-processing. Watch her shoot to discover how she achieves the multiple light effects you can see in her body of work. Stay longer if you wonder how she blends her own light overlays in her pictures to get that extra oomph!
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Kristen Ryan |
Pushing Your Creativity with Long-Term Projects |
I will begin with the benefits of working through long term photography projects. Followed by constructive ways to stay motivated within those projects and ways to fight those creative ruts. Throughout the video I will share my photography process and take viewers behind the scenes of various photo set ups and scenes while also sharing the final images from those shoots.
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Mara Magyarosi-Laytner
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Evolving Your Portfolio Creatively |
In this presentation, you will explore how to develop your project ideas into a skillful, purposeful portfolio. Rather than creating at the whim of the Lensbaby tool on your camera, we will be discussing how to purposefully choose your tools to convey specific ideas for more extended, thematic projects. Mara will be discussing the evolution of multiple creative projects, truly showing the roots of each idea and how the use of Lensbaby tools (Velvet, Omni Creative System) has developed the work far beyond the initial spark.
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Craig Strong and Rich Ormanowski |
Join Craig Strong and Rich Ormanowski as they have an in-depth discussion.
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Charlotte E. Johnson
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Fine Art Photography with Lensbaby |
Introduction to the lens I will be using and camera settings. 'Live' photoshoot. Choosing images and 'live' basic image edit in Photoshop. Display of finished images from the photoshoot.
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DAY 4 | December 10th, 2021
Susan Currie |
2:00pm PST | Truth is Beauty...The Dharma of Lensbabies |
In The Dharma of Lensbabies, on location at New York City's legendary Union Square Daylight Studio, we'll make some timeless portraits and share with viewers what's possible when we get intentional about locations that draw out and honor the magic of these lenses...and share simple practices for doing so. |
Craig Strong and Rachel Shomsky |
Join Craig Strong and Rachel Shomsky as they have an in-depth discussion.
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Emma Davis |
Lensbaby and the Art of Photographic Storytelling |
Emma Davis is a photographic storyteller who uses Lensbaby to add magic to the little everyday moments she sees through her lens. She lives in Sydney, Australia with her six children, and teaches photography at Click Love Grow.
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Craig Strong and April Milani |
Join Craig Strong and April Milani as they have an in-depth discussion.
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Robert Pugh
Kate Hailey |
Creative Light
Travel & Street Photography with Lensbaby |
See light visualize light create light using Lensbaby lenses.
From the streets of Seattle to the streets of Dubai, to landscapes in the Pacific Northwest, Kate highlights techniques, a focus on storytelling, and seeking unique perspectives.
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