by Jake Garn | Mar 22, 2020 | Featured, Uncategorized
Failures can be fertile ground for opportunity! Have you ever taken the time to appreciate your failures? I want share a story from over fifty years ago, when Julie Andrews failed to land the leading role in My Fair Lady… Julie Andrews Passed Over for Starring... 
by Jake Garn | Mar 18, 2020 | Featured
Employees engaged in hobbies do better at work Published Research shows that creative hobbies can improve employee performance up to 30% Invest in Creativity The results are in! Creative hobbies (like photography) can provide many compelling benefits, so much so that... 
by Jake Garn | Mar 5, 2020 | Featured, Uncategorized
Photographers are invited to join the photo course and shooting challenge Shoot for Love (www.shootforlove.com) has launched an online photography course and community for photographers to learn, shoot and share. The online photo class has 48-lessons, guiding members... 
by Jake Garn | Jul 5, 2018 | Featured
Meet a Stranger and Go Shoot for Love! Beyond learning the camera and beyond learning light there is discovering your subject. This is my favorite part of photography. Mia I discovered Mia at the Salt Lake Comic Con, dressed as the Queen of Dragons from Game of... 
by Jake Garn | Jun 27, 2018 | Featured
Is imitation the sincerest form of flattery? Yes. Sometimes it’s annoying to see someone post work showing off their skills when clearly they’re making a full-fledged effort to mimic somebody else, but the fact of the matter is we are all doing it. That doesn’t mean... 
by Jake Garn | Apr 22, 2017 | Featured
My Retouching philosophy IF I WERE DRAWING THIS SCENE HOW WOULD I DRAW IT? Just as a makeup artist, a hair stylist, a bra, a plastic surgeon or even simple lighting modifiers all work towards making a scene flawlessly rendered, a photographer has the digital job of... 
by Jake Garn | Feb 21, 2017 | Featured
Front light Back light Back Light vs. Front Light It was late afternoon, we were shooting next to a small stream with sun-light making it’s way to us through small patches of space between the leaves in the canopy of trees overhead. It was our first time... 
by Jake Garn | Feb 9, 2017 | Featured
It’s hard to believe that Leonardo Davinci painted the Mona Lisa over five HUNDRED years ago. What better example of the brilliant use of a single, prominent triangle to create a stunning and simple composition. But wait you say, “That’s not a triangle, all the... 
by Jake Garn | Nov 14, 2016 | Featured
PAID PHOTOGRAPHY: The 5 main Categories There are several ways to get paid with your camera, and you may have found yourself dabbling within each of the following categories. Glance over the lists and leave a comment about the ones that I missed! Photography &... 
by Jake Garn | Nov 9, 2016 | Uncategorized
There is something to be said for sketching I absolutely love my Wacom Intuous Tablet and use it all the time! Here are a few of the images I’ve creatively used the pressure sensitive tablet to create. You can purchase one at B&H Photo Video by following...
