Here's part two of the interview with Rob Grimm and Aaron Nace from Phlearn. Check it out. We would love to hear from you as well. E-mail, Gary Martin at gary@rggphoto with any questions or requests.
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chicago & st. louis commercial food, beverage, and product photography.
We've recently announced a partnership with Phlearn, a Chicago based online company that helps you achieve the impossible in Photoshop. Phlearn's mission is to provide the skills, confidence and encouragement for creative individuals to pursue their dreams, overcome their fears, and live their passions. They provide you with the technical knowledge to make your vision become a reality AND the confidence to craft your art true to your vision. Phlearn offers web based tutorials geared towards retouching commercially grade images from start to finish with custom made brushes, textures, and creative concepts. It's a concept many companies and individuals offer but not even close to this level of creativity, entertainment, and expertise that Phelarn offers. Aaron also makes learning quite entertaining.
Over the next year, Phlearn and RGG will be tackling not only the roles of the photographer and retoucher, but also producers, assistants, digital techs, creatives, food stylists, etc. It will be a great supplement to new and existing creatives in the industry. If you aren't currently in the industry but would like to learn more about getting your foot in the door, these tutorials will help educate you not only on the technical skills like Photoshop or lighting but also on the intangible knowledge nuggests shared by industry professionals.
The above shot was one of the first collaborations we did with Phearn and retouched by Aaron Nace.
Have a great thursday, now get back to work.
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Chicago & St. Louis Commercial Food, Beverage, and Product Photography.
This is part one of a two part interview with Rob from Aaron over at Phlearn. Since meeting the guys from Phlearn we have been onboard with their creative vision and have since formed a great working realtionship for both learning and teaching. The Phlearners traveled to our St. Louis studio for a few days, where we covered the ins and outs of the cmmercial photography industry, client relationships, and finding your own niche in the photography world. Check out the interview above.
Stay tuned next week for part two of our interview with Rob, where we’ll cover specific images in his book an ask him questions from the Phamily!
Today we have officially released the first of many pro tutorials that we will be doing in partnership with Phlearn. For access to download the entire behind the scnenes video, check out this Pro Tutorial here. We cover the preperation and vision behind making an image of a San Pellegrino bottle.
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Chicago & St. Louis Commercial Food, Beverage, and Product Photography.
Several months back, we came across an amazing website called Phlearn that specialize in Photoshop tutorials in a way that hasn't been done yet. Their approach to photoshop is geared towards commercial retouching on a very high level. Here is Phlearn's mission, from their website:
"Phlearn's mission is to provide the skills, confidence and encouragement for creative individuals to pursue their dreams, overcome their fears, and live their passions. We want to provide you with the technical knowledge to make your vision become a reality AND the confidence to craft your art true to your vision. And we want to do it all with a huge smile, because having fun is fun.
We've worked at creating multiple resources to assist you on your way. Tune in for our daily episodes and articles that include Phamily Edits, where a user submitted image gets a makeover, contests, interviews with a wide spectrum of individuals from across the industry, photo battles, and inspirational images from around the web."
Today is the first glimpse into a tutorial that we are co-creating. For the next year, Phlearn and RGG will be publishing a series of behind the scenes tutorials geared not only at post production, but also at pre-production, production, lighting, lighting, lighting, lighting, and all of the tricks that go into a commercial photo shoot.
We will be publishing a series of Pro Tutorials that highlight not only the photographer's tricks of the trade, but the Producer, Production Assistant, Digital Tech, Food Stylist, Prop Stylist, Creative Director, Art Director, and the others that help in the process of creating commercial photography for the advertising world.
Stay tuned for an in depth interview with Rob later this month, and a Pro Tutorial that highlights flying lemons.
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Chicago & St. Louis Commercial Food, Beverage, and Product Photography.
Rob Grimm
