CREATIVE CARDS
to Develop Your Creative Eye

Learn how to create amazing photographs
 with your cell phone camera that
make people say "Wow!"

LEARN "CREATIVE COMBINATIONS PHOTOGRAPHY"
  I have invented a new way of teaching the creative side of photography that will help you develop your creative eye and learn how to see creatively quickly and easily.
  I have simplified visual creativity to 4 Creative Fundamentals: Composition, Angle, Lens Zoom and Lighting. Each creative fundamental has 3 Creative Choices.

BORING or BEAUTIFUL PHOTOGRAPHS
  When sharing photographs of your life with your family and friends would you rather send boring or beautiful photographs? For your lifetime of memories captured on your cell phone would you rather they were boring or beautiful? Your ability to see creatively is what makes the difference.

INSPIRE – REVIEW – STUDY
1. Inspire Your Photographs: Use creative cards like a grocery list to help you remember your different creative choices when taking photographs.
2. Review Your Photographs: Use creative cards to review your photographs creative choices and combinations.
3. Study Other Photographers: Use creative cards to study the creative choices and combinations they made when taking their photographs.

1. INSPIRE CREATIVE STUDIES

CREATIVE STUDY'S
Mini, Medium, In Depth
  With some subjects, you may only take one photo, while with others, you’ll take 2 or 3 photos for a Mini creative study. If the subject is particularly interesting to you, take a Medium creative study of 4 to 6 photos or an In Depth creative study of 7 or more photos.
  Better chance of an amazing photograph with different combinations of creative choices to choose from. 

REVIEW & STUDY PHOTOS

2. REVIEW YOUR PHOTOS
Review Your Photos Creative Choices
  Study the creative choices and combinations that you made when taking your photos. 
3. STUDY OTHERS PHOTOS
Study Other Photographers Photos Creative Choices
  Study the creative choices and combinations that other photographers made when taking their photos. 

CREATIVE CHOICES WORK WITH ALL CAMERAS
Cell Phone Camera to Digital SLR & Mirrorless
  Learning how to see creatively works with all cameras. Developing your creative eye is the perfect camera accessory that will work every camera you will own for the rest of your life.

CREATIVE CHOICES WORK WITH ALL SUBJECTS
Nature, Travel, People, Scenics ....
  Developing your creative eye will help you create beautiful photographs and videos of any subject.

CREATIVE PHOTOS & VIDEOS
Create Beautiful Photographs and Videos
  Cell phones and digital cameras capture both photographs and videos. The creative choices and combinations you learn with my creative cards and workshop work with both.

Testimonial
  "I love the Creative Cards. They help remind me of my different creative choices that I can combine when taking photos."
       Robert James

Print Out Creative Choices Cards in 4 sizes
  You can print out cell phone pages with 1 card on an 8.5 x 11 sheet of paper, 2 cards, 4 cards and 4 cards on half a sheet of paper a well as 2 mini creative cards.
  Larger cards can be used to learn and practice creativity at home and smaller cards are great to fold up and carry with you for quick reference when creating photographs.

Plus Creative Studies - Inspire Review & Study Sheet - Photo Challenges
  You get a review and study sheet to review your photographs and study other photographers work. You can fill them out or just use one to visually review and study photographs.

View Creative Cards on Your Cell Phone or Tablet
  You can view the creative card on your cell phone, tablet or computer. Zooming in on each creative choice or viewing on cell phone sideways.

Learn & Practice Creativity & Combinations
  You can use the Creative Choices Cards to learn and practice them as well as using different creative combinations.

DEVELOP YOUR CREATIVE EYE
 Your #1 camera accessory is your creative eye. Learning how to see creatively will make the biggest difference in your photos more than anything else.

CREATIVE COMBINATIONS PHOTOGRAPHY

Learn Creative Combinations Photography
Have Fun Creating Unique Photographs
  Creative Combinations Photography is a new type of photography that lets you combine our creative choices into different combinations for unique photographs. The combination you choose will create your unique vision of the subject.

LEARN CREATIVITY LIKE MUSIC
  When playing the piano pressing one key creates a single note. How you combine the notes makes the difference. The secret to great photography is how you combine the creative choices. I teach creativity as individual creative choices which are as easy as pressing a single key on a piano.

• Music combines 3 Notes into a Chord and 4 Chords into a Song.
• For photography I have combined 3 Creative Choices into a Creative Fundamental and 4 Creative Fundamentals into a Photograph.

  Guido D'Arezzo was a monk who lived in the Middle Ages who wrote out music into notes that can be learned and followed combining notes and chords.  I have created a way to teach visual learning combining creative choices and fundamentals.

NOT THE CAMERA
 The secret to creating amazing photos is not buying an expensive camera. Buying an expensive piano will not make you a great pianist. Buying great basketball shoes won't make you a great basketball player. Your ability to see creatively and skill in using different combinations of creative choices is the secret to making your photographs amazing.

DEVELOP YOUR CREATIVE EYE
 Your #1 camera accessory is your creative eye. Learning how to see creatively will make the biggest difference in your photos more than anything else.

Creative Photography is a Great Social Activity
Create Social Connections Outside of the House
  Creative photography is a great social activity that can get you out of the house and in places where you can meet other people.
  Instead of just standing around you can be looking for great subjects and combinations of creative choices to photograph. Taking photos can be an excuse to be there.
  Conversations may start about you photographing something and looking at different creative choices. You can show people images you have taken on your cell phone or camera to let them see how creative your photos are.

SHARING PHOTOS & STORIES: You can send your photos from your cell phone to family and friends. You can also tell the story of how you found your subject and the different creative choice combinations you tried to come up with the photograph.

ONLINE SHARING: You can share your photos online with photo sharing websites like Facebook and Instagram which creates social activity online. You may also want to tell the story behind the photo of how you found the subject and the different creative choices you used to photograph it.
  Always be respectful of other people. If someone asks you not to photograph something, politely say okay, smile and move on.

Creative Photography is a Great Healthy Brain Activity
  Creative photography helps you create amazing photographs and get a healthier brain at the same time. Just like dark chocolate tastes great and is good for you it’s a win, win.
  Creative photography helps you get a healthier brain 3 ways by increasing brain activity, physical activity and social activity.

1. Increase Your Brain Activity
  For your brain to exercise it needs unique challenges. Just walking around taking photos is not challenging for the brain. Looking at different creative choices and combinations of creative choices when photographing gives your brain a great workout.   

2. Increase Your Physical Activity

  Increased physical activity is good for your health but also sends more blood to the brain which is good for it. Getting up and moving around to photograph different subjects from different angles increases your physical activity. You can take photos indoors, outdoors and even take a road trip.

3. Increase Your Social Activity

  Social activity is very important for your brain. Going out and taking photos gets you out of the house and you have more of a chance to meet people. You can also do it as an activity with family members and friends.

Sharing Photos Online

  You can share your photographs on your Facebook page with family and friends around the world. You can also share your photos on photo sharing websites. Telling the story of how you took the photograph is great for social interaction as well.

Technical Settings Inside Camera
vs. Creative Choices in Front of Camera
  The secret to taking amazing photographs is not the technical settings inside the camera, it is the creative choices you make in front of the camera.
  There are two sides to photography. The technical side inside the camera and the creative side in front of the camera. Even if you know all the technical settings on a digital camera your photographs will still be boring unless you were born with a creative eye and make good creative choices.

Technically Okay but Creatively Boring
  A photograph can be technically good, not too light or too dark and in focus and still be boring if it has bad creative choices. You need great creative choices to create great photographs.
  A camera can be set on Auto. Creative choices can only be made by the photographer.
  Your creative choices, the angle you choose, where you place the subject in your photograph, how you crop and frame it, your lens perspective and lighting are what makes a photograph beautiful.
  Lighting by itself can make or break a photograph. Learning how to find and use great natural light will make an incredible difference in your photographs.

Two Separate Worlds
  Technical Camera Settings and Creative Choices are two separate worlds. There is no camera setting that will change your camera angle from a low to a high angle. Creative choices are outside a cameras technical controls.

Tech Dad & Creative Daughter
  I was talking with a man who owned a fancy digital camera, who said he knew all the technical settings on it but his photos were boring.
  He said when his 18 year old daughter borrowed his camera she put it on Auto and took amazing photographs. The difference is she was born with a natural creative eye and spent her time concentrating on her subject not the camera settings.
  A photograph can be technically good, not too light or too dark and in focus but still be boring if it has bad creative choices. Technical settings can be set on Auto. Creative choices can only be made by the photographer.

Cooking School Disaster

  Imagine going to a cooking school and having the chef tell you that to bake a cake ingredients don’t matter. All that matters is that you set the time and temperature in the oven so your cake is not over or under cooked. You can put in any ingredients you want like 2 cups of salt or a teaspoon of salt. Ingredients don’t matter.
  This would make no sense. In the same way your creative choices are the ingredients you need to create amazing photographs.

A Recipe Without Ingredients

  In cooking, a recipe has 3 parts. 1. The ingredients, 2. How to mix the ingredients and 3. The time and temperature settings.
  Imagine finding a recipe that has no ingredients, no instructions on how to mix the ingredients and only the oven time and temperature. Here you can see a recipe with ingredients and mixing instructions and a recipe with only time and temperature.

Creative Choices Photography Recipe

  In the same way you need creative choices as ingredients and mixing instructions for them to create amazing photographs.
  In photography the recipe for a photograph has 3 parts. 1. Creative Choices, 2. Instructions for Mixing/Combining Creative Choices and 3. Technical settings.
  In the first photo recipe you can see Creative choices and Mixing Instructions for them. In the second Photo recipe the only thing you see are the technical settings. 
  Often technical settings are emphasized and the creative choices are forgotten. My creative cards and workshop are very visual making them easier to understand and faster to learn.

Cooking Show Disaster

 Imagine a person in a cooking show competition setting their dish down in front of the chef judge. When the chef judge sees it they say it looks terrible, when they taste it and it tastes terrible.
  The person tells the judge they are concentrating on the wrong things. The important thing is that the dish was not undercooked or over cooked. How the dish looks and tastes is not important. The ingredients were not important. A teaspoon of salt or cup of salt didn't matter. Only the cooking time and temperature matter.
  This would make no sense. In the same way your creative choices are the ingredients you need to create amazing photographs.

Professional Photographer, Instructor and World Traveler
  My experience as a professional photographer with clients from IBM to Proctor & Gamble as well as fashion photography in Vogue, author of best selling photography books, photography workshop instructor, inventor of patented photography equipment and world traveler have all gone into making DEVELOP YOUR CREATIVE EYE an amazing photography workshop.  
  I’ve taught photography to people from ambassadors at the United Nations to high school students at national journalism conventions. I also teach Digital Camera, Exposure, Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom and other photo software workshops.
  I put the lessons I learned the hard way into this workshop to help you learn the easy way and much faster. In addition to my years of experience I spent a lot of time and energy putting this workshop together with lots of photographs and illustrations to help you learn visually.