The clock keeps ticking and the Summer Intensive students are rounding the far turn and quickly heading toward home stretch. Coming off the second and last long break of the course, Week 9 involved more of the quality creative education and experience they’ve been immersed in since the beginning. The week began in Photo Studies [...]
Week 6 is quickly coming to a close and the students have officially reached the midpoint of Summer Intensive. This is the point where they are critiqued one-on-one for the first time on their first major photographic project of the summer: their individual slideshows. This weeks culminates in a full-scale presentation of their unique vision in [...]
Water, water everywhere! That’s the story of the submissions for June’s assignment and our well-hydrated blog readers certainly came through. Well done and thank you to all who participated and made some incredible images with the theme of Gettin’ All Wet! Below are some comments from the submitting photographers, and we couldn’t be more grateful for [...]
This month, we’ll ask you to dry off a bit from last month – or not – and attempt to photograph with a little different mindset. We encourage you to capture a scene that existed in one moment, and then the exact same or similar subject or idea after any amount of time has passed [...]
Every once in a while, something so refreshing comes along it stands to make a big impact in an already saturated avocation. In the field of photography education, it’s increasingly challenging to stand out amongst the crowd. Instructors Elizabeth Stone and Tony Rizzuto have recently embarked on such an endeavor, and we feel it could [...]
We are assuming that you aren’t returning to Paper Airplanes on a regular basis to receive … of all things … relationship advise. Or maybe, just maybe, you are? Perhaps you look to our blog as your own personal Dear Abby column (or in my case, a Dear Andy column … ha!). While we do [...]
Today I’m going to talk about a trend in the wedding photography world that is so obvious and so awesome, it makes me wonder why any bride or groom wouldn’t want one at their wedding. No, I am not referring to a mechanical bull or a mariachi band, although both sound fantastic to me. I’m [...]
It’s June. The rain is fading. The sun is beginning to stick around. Engaged people all over the world are getting nervous. These indicators can only mean one thing: It’s Wedding Season!! As a photography school that educates and trains individuals who strive to become wedding photographers, we thought it would be appropriate to usher [...]
Photographer and instructor, David Marx likes to teach. You might even say he was born to do so. One of his favorite subjects to teach is the functionality of the brilliant image editing software for photographers, Adobe® Photoshop® Lightroom® (commonly abbreviated to just Lightroom). If you’ve ever taken instruction from him, then you’ll know how [...]
Certainly not a new term, “Leap of Faith” has become vernacular for a place where people overcome doubt and are able to trust in their sometimes life-changing decisions. Unbeknownst to us at the time when we posted the assignment, the week prior, a Broadway show of the same name, Leap of Faith, opened (thank you [...]
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