Whether weโre ready to admit it or not, the holidays are upon us. I tried as long as I could to ignore the names of the months passing by on the calendar, but, well, once Daylight Savings Time hit, denial turned to grief turned to acceptance turned to โok, fine, letโs do this thing!โ Anyhow, chances are thereโs a photographer in your family or group of friends that youโll have to shop for, and while we're certainly a famously finicky bunch, I guarantee you, thereโs still something that photographer โneeds.โ So hereโs a list of things that will help turn that psychosis-inducing task of figuring it out into the easiest checkmark on your shopping list. Here are 10 fail-proof gifts for photographers in your circles.
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My Second Research Term For The Arcanum: Chromatic Aberration. Why? It's Annoyingโฆ
So if you read my post My First Research Term For The Arcanum: Silence. Why? It's Complicatedโฆ, youโd know what this is all about. As Robin Griggs Woodโs apprentice in Trey Ratcliffโs Arcanum, part of each weekโs challenge is to research a term that relates to creativity. While the first term I researched was silence, this time, I chose "chromatic aberration.โ Whether you know what it is or not, youโve seen it, youโve experienced it, and itโs annoyed the living crap out of you, so hereโs a basic breakdown of the bugger and what Iโve found. What Exactly Is Chromatic Aberration?
Read MoreMy First Research Term For The Arcanum: Silence. Why? It's Complicated...
Part of the deal as an apprentice in The Arcanum is each week we are presented with a weekly challenge by our master, and with each weekly challenge, in addition to finding images based on a theme, we are to find a term that relates to creativity in some way (however broad is up to us) and research that term and what we found out about it. So while I was trying to think of what term I wanted to research for my first weekly challenge, I found myself navigating my way through the eternal Facebook stream of doom, looking for a post I saw earlier from a friend that I wanted to comment on, and all I could see are BE SCARED EBOLA OBAMA DEMOCRAPUBLICANS TERRORISM EBOLA LIBERAL HELL WRATH CONSERVATIVE RACIST FIRE DOOM DIE OH YEAH AND EBOLA when all I could think to myself was, โshut up already!โ So, that was the birth of the term I wanted to research for my first weekly challenge in The Arcanum: Silence.
Read MoreMy Experience In Trey Ratcliffโs The Arcanum - Level 3: Wasim The Inspired!
So this is where it all got real. The experiences, the Networks, The Challenges. Itโs all part of the process here in The Arcanum, but all of it, at first, seems a bit disconnected, another virtual forum, albeit a more positively engaging one sans the trolls and the, but, still,
I am now Wasim The Inspired!!
And with that, things immediately get a bit more serious.
Read MoreMy Experience In Trey Ratcliffโs The Arcanum - Levels 1 & 2
So if you havenโt heard of it yet, you need to hear of it before yet. Like now. Right now. Itโs the future of learning and education, itโs based on the master/apprentice model, it was created by Trey Ratcliff, and it's called The Arcanum.
The idea is simpleโฆa master chooses an apprentice, and the apprentice learns the craft. The craft in this case is photography. The executionโฆis seemingly brilliant. Using todayโs technologies - everything from real time screen sharing and VR on-location sharing - mixed with a structured and tiered leveling system, and you have yourself what could be a glimpse into the future of education.
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