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Building a creative team

If you find yourself in a creative slump, consider building a creative team. When you can bounce ideas around and build off of each other, photoshoots tend to be more creative and fun and less time is spent retouching makeup. Most people who don’t work with a team don’t because

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Working on collaborations with other creatives

I often enjoy working on collaborations with other creatives; models and actors. Hair and makeup artists. Designers and of course other photographers. I find it rather enjoyable, as well as lots of fun. We’re all different and have different ideas. Working with other creatives allows you to expand on ideas

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Instagram collab post feature

Mobile Mondays: How to use the Instagram Collab feature

The new Collab feature on Instagram makes it possible to share authorship of posts with another account. Let’s check out how it works. The Collab feature came to Instagram a couple of months ago, and you have probably seen in it in your feed already. Instead of a single account

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Conceptual Creativity with Dan: A bed of roses

This new Conceptual Creativity series is a collaboration with my friend Daniel Mallard. Dan has been a photojournalist for a major Canadian daily newspaper for over 35 years. In this “Bed of Roses” edition, he is teaching (me and you) valuable tips and techniques on how to unleash our creativity

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A Lesson I Learned About Seeing Opportunities

(Vanelli’s note: Michèle Grenier, a talented sports photographer based out of Quebec City, Canada, needed 75 hours of mentoring before she could complete her degree in photography. After meeting her at Photoshop World a year earlier, she called to ask me if I could be her mentor—I’m based out of

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