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Eclipse Photography Institute

This document discusses ways to increase creativity. It argues that creativity is a skill that can be learned and enhanced, not just a innate gift. It presents a three-part model of creativity involving the domain (field of knowledge), the field (individuals who judge work), and the creator. It provides many exercises and strategies to build skills, expand one's toolbox, think non-linearly, learn from mentors, and get work noticed in order to enhance creativity. Psychology techniques are also presented to get in a mental "zone" of peak performance. The overall message is that creativity can be improved through deliberate practice, challenging oneself, and immersing in creative communities and processes.

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Creativity How Can I Get Some?
Is It A Gift From GOd? Do You Have to be Born Creative? Do You to be Lucky In Life?
Or, Do You Have to Join the 27 Club?
Do You Have To Be Riddled With Angst?
Or, is Creativity a Skill? If so, It Follows that To Be Creative, You Have to Know How to Be Creative. If So, Creative Thinking Can be Learned and Enhanced.
Creativity We Can Learn How to Increase the Odds of Performing Creatively on Any Given Day - Under Any Circumstances.
The Big Picture Creativity, the Kind That Leads to Meaningful Breakthroughs in the Way We See or Perform on Demand, Involves a Three-Part System. The Domain The Field The Creative
1) The Domain The Domain is the Totality of the Accumulated Knowledge, History, Culture, Rules, Icons and Current State of the Discipline in Which We Work.
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2) The Field The Field is the summation of the Institutions and Individuals Who Judge Our Work and Control Our Creative Destiny
Gatekeeper The Museum (Curator)
Judge & Jury The Historian
Assassin The Critic Anton Ego
Assassin The Critic Anton Ego
Publicist The Trade & Popular Press Editor
Boss & Mentor The Art Director Alexey Brodovich - Harpers Bazaar
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King Maker The Patron The Photographer Sam Wagstaff Robert Maplethorpe
Partners The Composer The Producer Igor Stravinsky Sergei Diaghilev
3) The Creator That Would Be You
3) The Creator Or You And Your Co-Conspirator(s)
3) The Creator Working Alone
3) The Creator Or In a Creative Hothouse
Creative Hothouse Renaissance Florence
Creative Hothouse Paris In The 20s
Creative Hothouse New York - Pretty Much Anytime
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What Can You Do to Increase the Odds, on Any Given Day, of Performing at a Higher Level of Creativity?
Build a Foundation 1) Acquire a Knowledge of Your Domain - The Ability to Draw on Its History and Culture Will Serve You Well Study The Visual Arts and Read Widely, With Intent
Build a Foundation Take Workshops and Classes Join a Camera club, ASMP, PPA Visit Museums & Galleries Develop Interests In Other Disciplines to Broaden the Range of Possibilities
Appropriate I am a thief - and I am not ashamed. I steal from the best wherever it happens to be - plato, Picasso, Bertram Ross. I am a thief and I glory in it. I think I know the value of what I steal and I treasure it - not as a possession but as a heritage and a legacy. Martha Graham
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Collect Ideas
Collect Ideas
Use Em
Make Em Your Own
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Build Your Skills 2) Craftsmanship Inspires Confidence, Creates Options, Facilitates Problem Solving.
Build Your Skills
Practice By the time Mozart was was 28 his hands were deformed from all the hours he spent practicing.
Expand Your Toolbox
Expand Your Toolbox
Expand Your Toolbox
Expand Your Toolbox
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Creativity
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Grow by Doing The function of the majority of your work is simply to teach you how to make the small fraction of your work that soars. The point is, you learn how to make your work by making your work. The rest is largely a matter of perseverance. Bayless & Orland
Grow by Doing Look at what Rodin did. Broken casts and sculptures were on the floor of every studio. For everybody else, they were a way of getting from point a to point b. But Rodin stopped at point C or point d and said, this is something else. I can make this into something.
Grow by Doing He had a quality of knowing, by doing. there was a process of discovering in practice. Keith Varnedo
Demand Excellence Nobody has devoted so much time and thought to composition as I. Mozart
Commit to the Work I was 58 years old when I finally felt like a master choreographer. the Occasion was my 128th Ballet. For the 1st time in my life I was in control of the components that go into making a dance. Twyla Tharp
The Next Step Living a Creative Life Requires an Accumulation of Data. Creativity Requires Raw Material to Contemplate, Kick Around, Tear Apart, Rearrange, Process and Re-order in Your Sub- Conscious Mind.
Experience Deeply The average man looks without seeing, listens without hearing, touches without feeling, moves without physical awareness, inhales without smelling and talks without thinking. Leonardo da Vinci
The Next Big Step The magic happens when ideas from different fields collide and then fuse together, creating new ways of thinking, seeing and doing.
Learn to Think You Can Encourage This Cross- Pollination by Learning How to Think Like Da Vinci or DuChamp. Creative People Tend to Think Visually, They Create Analogies, Employ Empathy or Think With Their Entire Bodies
Take It Up a Notch Inform Your Photographic Vision With Moving Pictures, Sound, Story Telling, Subject Motion, Passage of Time and Good Post- Production Skills. Illustrate Metaphors and Concepts With Your Images
Non-Linear Thinking Visualization - Einstein Riding on His Beam of Light Tesla Was Said to be Able to Build the Machines in His Minds Eye
Non-Linear Thinking Creating Analogies -
Non-Linear Thinking Employing Empathy - Put Yourself in Someone Elses Shoes and Use Their Point of View.
Theory In Practice
Muybridge to Marey to DuChamp
Muybridge to Marey to DuChamp
Muybridge to Marey to DuChamp
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Wo Woo Psychology If Creativity is a Mental Exercise, and Our Goal is to Increase the Odds of Performing at a Higher Level on Any Given Day, Then Psychology Must Fit in Here Somewhere.
Wo Woo Psychology Because There Are Many Mental and Emotional Similarities Between Athletes and Artists in Training, We Can Look to Sports Psychology for Insight.
Wo Woo Psychology Sports Psychology is Designed to Help Athletes Get Into The Zone, That Magical Place of Peak Mental and Physical Performance.
Wo Woo Psychology Artists and Others Might Call This State of Grace Flow, The Place Where Creativity Seems to Flow like water. Whatever You Call It, It is Not Only the Happy Place of Peak Performance but also of Great Pleasure and Enjoyment.
So, What Do We Do?
First find a good mentor (coach) to teach you, to hold you accountable, to encourage you and to critique your work
Step Two Design Your Practice Sessions to Build Skills - the Exercises Should be Just Beyond Your Current Abilities. The Idea is to Stretch Without Getting so Frustrated That You Throw in the Towel.
Step Three Use Positive Affirmations What You Say to Yourself is Very Important
Step Three I am a Photographer
Step Four Pre-Visualize the Shoot - Think About What Can Go Wrong and How Youll React. This Exercise is a Great Planning Tool and, it Gets The Nerves Out of the Way.
Step Five Imagine Yourself on Location, in Complete Control of the Production, Collaborating With the Entire Crew, Making all the Right Decisions and Knocking Back Great Images.
Step Six Replay the Shoot in Your Head, Not to Beat Yourself Up but to Learn from What Your Mistakes and to be Able to Reproduce What Went Well. Do This Right Away and Make a Movie of It in Your Head. Youll be Amazed at How Much Sticks.
Step Seven Review the Resulting Images Dispassionately. Remember What You Were Thinking at the Time You Snapped the Shutter. Youre a Performer - Review Your Performance.
Make a Plan Create a Plan Designed to Get Results and Execute That Plan - Above All, Make Sure That You Enjoy the Journey & the Process Take a Page from Tony Robbins - Develop Constant, Never Ending Improvement in Your Creative Life
Action Get Grounded in the Domain Get Mentally Fit Get Physically Fit Build Your Skills Make Connections in the Field Build Your Skills Create A Body of Work Make Connections in the Field Sell Your Work, Get Better Work
Action Create a Mantra That You Employ Before Every Shoot Affirmation of Skills Deep Breathing Routine Physical Routine (Gear Checking) Working Habits (You Are In Charge!) Checklist of Ideas That Reach Beyond Whats Expected
Exercises 1 One Shot A Day for ten Days (commit to an Hour a Day) 2 One Lens for an entire Day 3 One Small Environment for an Entire Day - Your Bedroom, Yard 4 100 Images of an inanimate Object
Exercises 5 Develop Specific Skills - Focus, Panning, Backlight, Gestures 6 Master New Tools - Radio Slaves, Lens, Gorilla Pods, Light Modifiers 7 Expand Your Mind - Shoot to a Soundtrack, a Word or Phrase, a Concept, A Story or Illustrate a Poem
Exercises 8 Shoot to a Color Pallet 9 Shoot with A Post-Production Treatment in Mind 10 Shoot the Same Scene in Different Light, in Different Weather, With Different Tools, With a different Aesthetic
Exercises 11 Portray Motion - Motion Blur, Stop Action, Mixed Ambient and Strobe, Camera Shake, Multiple Exposure etc.
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Exercises 12 Shoot what terrifies you - hard midday light, back light, studio strobes, rotweillers
Rules of Engagement Pre-Visualize the Image and Think About All the Camera Controls That Are Required to Achieve The Desired Result
Rules of Engagement Do Not Chimp. Do Not Delete in Camera - Theres Gold in Mistakes Instead, Study the Entire Take. Compare Your Expectations to Your Results. Deconstruct the Results, Learn from the Garbage (But just Once)
Work Smart Learn to work smart - both behind the camera and in front of the computer
Get Noticed Get Integrated into the Photo Community and Get Your Work Out There. Good Work, When it is Seen And Recognized, Leads to More Good Work.
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Creativity
Books tywla Tharp - The Creative Habit Michael Gelb - How to Think Like Leonardo Da Vinci David Bayles & Ted Orland - Art and Fear Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi - Creativity: Flow & the Psychology of Discovery & Invention
Documentaries Gerhard Richter Painting Being Elmo Jiro Dreams of Sushi Jean Michel Basquiat: The Radiant child PBS Art:21 Art in the 21st Century The Dancer Revealed
Links http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2012/07/does- artistic-collaboration-ever-work/260319/

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  • 2. Is It A Gift From GOd? Do You Have to be Born Creative? Do You to be Lucky In Life?
  • 3. Or, Do You Have to Join the 27 Club?
  • 4. Do You Have To Be Riddled With Angst?
  • 5. Or, is Creativity a Skill? If so, It Follows that To Be Creative, You Have to Know How to Be Creative. If So, Creative Thinking Can be Learned and Enhanced.
  • 6. Creativity We Can Learn How to Increase the Odds of Performing Creatively on Any Given Day - Under Any Circumstances.
  • 7. The Big Picture Creativity, the Kind That Leads to Meaningful Breakthroughs in the Way We See or Perform on Demand, Involves a Three-Part System. The Domain The Field The Creative
  • 8. 1) The Domain The Domain is the Totality of the Accumulated Knowledge, History, Culture, Rules, Icons and Current State of the Discipline in Which We Work.
  • 12. 2) The Field The Field is the summation of the Institutions and Individuals Who Judge Our Work and Control Our Creative Destiny
  • 14. Judge & Jury The Historian
  • 15. Assassin The Critic Anton Ego
  • 16. Assassin The Critic Anton Ego
  • 17. Publicist The Trade & Popular Press Editor
  • 18. Boss & Mentor The Art Director Alexey Brodovich - Harpers Bazaar
  • 20. King Maker The Patron The Photographer Sam Wagstaff Robert Maplethorpe
  • 21. Partners The Composer The Producer Igor Stravinsky Sergei Diaghilev
  • 22. 3) The Creator That Would Be You
  • 23. 3) The Creator Or You And Your Co-Conspirator(s)
  • 25. 3) The Creator Or In a Creative Hothouse
  • 28. Creative Hothouse New York - Pretty Much Anytime
  • 30. What Can You Do to Increase the Odds, on Any Given Day, of Performing at a Higher Level of Creativity?
  • 31. Build a Foundation 1) Acquire a Knowledge of Your Domain - The Ability to Draw on Its History and Culture Will Serve You Well Study The Visual Arts and Read Widely, With Intent
  • 32. Build a Foundation Take Workshops and Classes Join a Camera club, ASMP, PPA Visit Museums & Galleries Develop Interests In Other Disciplines to Broaden the Range of Possibilities
  • 33. Appropriate I am a thief - and I am not ashamed. I steal from the best wherever it happens to be - plato, Picasso, Bertram Ross. I am a thief and I glory in it. I think I know the value of what I steal and I treasure it - not as a possession but as a heritage and a legacy. Martha Graham
  • 40. Build Your Skills 2) Craftsmanship Inspires Confidence, Creates Options, Facilitates Problem Solving.
  • 42. Practice By the time Mozart was was 28 his hands were deformed from all the hours he spent practicing.
  • 43. Expand Your Toolbox
  • 44. Expand Your Toolbox
  • 45. Expand Your Toolbox
  • 46. Expand Your Toolbox
  • 53. Grow by Doing The function of the majority of your work is simply to teach you how to make the small fraction of your work that soars. The point is, you learn how to make your work by making your work. The rest is largely a matter of perseverance. Bayless & Orland
  • 54. Grow by Doing Look at what Rodin did. Broken casts and sculptures were on the floor of every studio. For everybody else, they were a way of getting from point a to point b. But Rodin stopped at point C or point d and said, this is something else. I can make this into something.
  • 55. Grow by Doing He had a quality of knowing, by doing. there was a process of discovering in practice. Keith Varnedo
  • 56. Demand Excellence Nobody has devoted so much time and thought to composition as I. Mozart
  • 57. Commit to the Work I was 58 years old when I finally felt like a master choreographer. the Occasion was my 128th Ballet. For the 1st time in my life I was in control of the components that go into making a dance. Twyla Tharp
  • 58. The Next Step Living a Creative Life Requires an Accumulation of Data. Creativity Requires Raw Material to Contemplate, Kick Around, Tear Apart, Rearrange, Process and Re-order in Your Sub- Conscious Mind.
  • 59. Experience Deeply The average man looks without seeing, listens without hearing, touches without feeling, moves without physical awareness, inhales without smelling and talks without thinking. Leonardo da Vinci
  • 60. The Next Big Step The magic happens when ideas from different fields collide and then fuse together, creating new ways of thinking, seeing and doing.
  • 61. Learn to Think You Can Encourage This Cross- Pollination by Learning How to Think Like Da Vinci or DuChamp. Creative People Tend to Think Visually, They Create Analogies, Employ Empathy or Think With Their Entire Bodies
  • 62. Take It Up a Notch Inform Your Photographic Vision With Moving Pictures, Sound, Story Telling, Subject Motion, Passage of Time and Good Post- Production Skills. Illustrate Metaphors and Concepts With Your Images
  • 63. Non-Linear Thinking Visualization - Einstein Riding on His Beam of Light Tesla Was Said to be Able to Build the Machines in His Minds Eye
  • 65. Non-Linear Thinking Employing Empathy - Put Yourself in Someone Elses Shoes and Use Their Point of View.
  • 67. Muybridge to Marey to DuChamp
  • 68. Muybridge to Marey to DuChamp
  • 69. Muybridge to Marey to DuChamp
  • 71. Wo Woo Psychology If Creativity is a Mental Exercise, and Our Goal is to Increase the Odds of Performing at a Higher Level on Any Given Day, Then Psychology Must Fit in Here Somewhere.
  • 72. Wo Woo Psychology Because There Are Many Mental and Emotional Similarities Between Athletes and Artists in Training, We Can Look to Sports Psychology for Insight.
  • 73. Wo Woo Psychology Sports Psychology is Designed to Help Athletes Get Into The Zone, That Magical Place of Peak Mental and Physical Performance.
  • 74. Wo Woo Psychology Artists and Others Might Call This State of Grace Flow, The Place Where Creativity Seems to Flow like water. Whatever You Call It, It is Not Only the Happy Place of Peak Performance but also of Great Pleasure and Enjoyment.
  • 75. So, What Do We Do?
  • 76. First find a good mentor (coach) to teach you, to hold you accountable, to encourage you and to critique your work
  • 77. Step Two Design Your Practice Sessions to Build Skills - the Exercises Should be Just Beyond Your Current Abilities. The Idea is to Stretch Without Getting so Frustrated That You Throw in the Towel.
  • 78. Step Three Use Positive Affirmations What You Say to Yourself is Very Important
  • 79. Step Three I am a Photographer
  • 80. Step Four Pre-Visualize the Shoot - Think About What Can Go Wrong and How Youll React. This Exercise is a Great Planning Tool and, it Gets The Nerves Out of the Way.
  • 81. Step Five Imagine Yourself on Location, in Complete Control of the Production, Collaborating With the Entire Crew, Making all the Right Decisions and Knocking Back Great Images.
  • 82. Step Six Replay the Shoot in Your Head, Not to Beat Yourself Up but to Learn from What Your Mistakes and to be Able to Reproduce What Went Well. Do This Right Away and Make a Movie of It in Your Head. Youll be Amazed at How Much Sticks.
  • 83. Step Seven Review the Resulting Images Dispassionately. Remember What You Were Thinking at the Time You Snapped the Shutter. Youre a Performer - Review Your Performance.
  • 84. Make a Plan Create a Plan Designed to Get Results and Execute That Plan - Above All, Make Sure That You Enjoy the Journey & the Process Take a Page from Tony Robbins - Develop Constant, Never Ending Improvement in Your Creative Life
  • 85. Action Get Grounded in the Domain Get Mentally Fit Get Physically Fit Build Your Skills Make Connections in the Field Build Your Skills Create A Body of Work Make Connections in the Field Sell Your Work, Get Better Work
  • 86. Action Create a Mantra That You Employ Before Every Shoot Affirmation of Skills Deep Breathing Routine Physical Routine (Gear Checking) Working Habits (You Are In Charge!) Checklist of Ideas That Reach Beyond Whats Expected
  • 87. Exercises 1 One Shot A Day for ten Days (commit to an Hour a Day) 2 One Lens for an entire Day 3 One Small Environment for an Entire Day - Your Bedroom, Yard 4 100 Images of an inanimate Object
  • 88. Exercises 5 Develop Specific Skills - Focus, Panning, Backlight, Gestures 6 Master New Tools - Radio Slaves, Lens, Gorilla Pods, Light Modifiers 7 Expand Your Mind - Shoot to a Soundtrack, a Word or Phrase, a Concept, A Story or Illustrate a Poem
  • 89. Exercises 8 Shoot to a Color Pallet 9 Shoot with A Post-Production Treatment in Mind 10 Shoot the Same Scene in Different Light, in Different Weather, With Different Tools, With a different Aesthetic
  • 90. Exercises 11 Portray Motion - Motion Blur, Stop Action, Mixed Ambient and Strobe, Camera Shake, Multiple Exposure etc.
  • 94. Exercises 12 Shoot what terrifies you - hard midday light, back light, studio strobes, rotweillers
  • 95. Rules of Engagement Pre-Visualize the Image and Think About All the Camera Controls That Are Required to Achieve The Desired Result
  • 96. Rules of Engagement Do Not Chimp. Do Not Delete in Camera - Theres Gold in Mistakes Instead, Study the Entire Take. Compare Your Expectations to Your Results. Deconstruct the Results, Learn from the Garbage (But just Once)
  • 97. Work Smart Learn to work smart - both behind the camera and in front of the computer
  • 98. Get Noticed Get Integrated into the Photo Community and Get Your Work Out There. Good Work, When it is Seen And Recognized, Leads to More Good Work.
  • 101. Books tywla Tharp - The Creative Habit Michael Gelb - How to Think Like Leonardo Da Vinci David Bayles & Ted Orland - Art and Fear Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi - Creativity: Flow & the Psychology of Discovery & Invention
  • 102. Documentaries Gerhard Richter Painting Being Elmo Jiro Dreams of Sushi Jean Michel Basquiat: The Radiant child PBS Art:21 Art in the 21st Century The Dancer Revealed