Day 2

30  Days of Creativity 

with Brooke Shaden 

Day 2

1. Is there a certain routine that you go through when you create your art?

      Yes and it usually starts with a lot of procrastinating, followed by worry once I have taken the images I have planned and finally start to do the editing it usually flows well. 

2 How often do you create different versions of the same thing?

   I do a lot of nature photography and will often go back to the same spot again and again. I recently started to work on series with my composites. The quick answer is occasionally   

3. What parts of your creative process are special to you, or make your work special?

4. How often do you try new techniques?

    As often as I can, sometimes I see a tutorial and want to try the trick and techniques other times I have an idea that I am not sure how to execute so I Google/YouTube,  I have learnt to type exactly what I want for example, "how to insert a zipper using Photoshop" - you would be amazed at the results 

5. What do you most want to learn?

     Posing and setting a scene 

Special Challenge - create with balloons or cake (it is Brooke's birthday)

I read today email when I got out of bed today and worried that I would not get an image created today after all I do have to work, luckily the traffic gods were on my side today and I had a dream run to work, what can often take 1.5 hours only took 1 during that hour I had time to mentally plan a photo for today, I searched through my memory for balloon photos I may have taken and a how I could re edit for today. (I am not a fan of balloons, in fact I hate them, I hate the feel, I hate the squeak when they are rubbed and most of all I hate the noise when they are popped) I don't have many balloon photos so I used a stock image for these balloons. 

Because I got to work early I set up a table next to a white wall and draped a black table cloth over myself and created a few poses at either end of the table with a bit of Photoshop magic I became a lot slimmer than I actually am. 

Happy Birthday Brooke, I hope you like it