Em is based in Melbourne, although she’s often on a roadie in the outback. She photographs fashion, love and adventures on 35mm film, polaroid, digital and super 8 (video).
A Conversation with Bastian Roman Peter
Bastian, you have been doing street photography in Switzerland for a while. Can you tell me what it is like? What has your experience been? It has been great so far. Honestly. But I haven’t been doing it for long and I wouldn’t call myself experienced or even very good at it. But the negative experiences were very little and … Read More
Episode 017: Authentic Portraiture – a Conversation with Chris Orwig
In this episode of CREATE. PHOTOGRAPHY, host Daniel Sigg had a conversation with California-based based portrait photographer, teacher and author Chris Orwig. We talked about authentic portraiture.
Episode 016: The Art of Seeing – an Introduction to the Photography of Ernst Haas
In this episode of CREATE. PHOTOGRAPHY, host Daniel Sigg will discuss the photography of Ernst Haas. There will be a brief overview of his work, and then an image review of three of his images. Haas was one most influential photographers of the 20th century. And one of the pioneers of color photography.
Episode 015: Quitting Social Media – a Conversation with David duChemin
In this episode of CREATE. PHOTOGRAPHY, host Daniel Sigg had a conversation with Canadian Photographer, Author and Creativity Expert David duChemin. David has been a professional creative and has a big social media following. We talked about his experience of quitting social media, the life after and other things.
Episode 014: Minimalism In Photography And Gear – A Conversation With Nicole Struppert
In this episode Daniel will have a conversation with Nicole Struppert about her photography, creative process, minimalism in photography and gear, and other things.
Episode 013: Light, Gesture and Color – a brief introduction to Jay Maisel
In this episode of CREATE. PHOTOGRAPHY, Daniel will give a brief introduction to the stunning photography of American photographer Jay Maisel. Jay had a long career as commercial photographer, and photographed the likes of Marilyn Monroe and Miles Davis. But he really got well know for his use of light, gesture and color in everyday scenes. Daniel will also review 3 of Jay’s images.
Create (daily): Just Another Street Photography Outing
The cities are so empty these days (December 3 2020). We are still in partial lockdown, restaurants are closed, and the streets more than ghostly. I have been out photographing in downtown Minneapolis again. Street photography with plenty of empty streets and almost no people. The few people I did see I tried to capture including myself in a reflection! … Read More
Episode 012: Color Theory, Color For Emotion And For Composition
In this episode of CREATE. PHOTOGRAPHY, host Daniel Sigg will discuss how the color theory, color for emotion and color as compositional element.
The initial theoretical discussion will be supplemented with practical examples and review of 3 images (by Jay Maisel and Ernst Haas).
Episode 011: Creative Use Of The Physics Of Light
Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify RSS Feed Listen on Google Podcasts Listen on Stitcher For more listening options and all other episodes, please click here. For sharing, download or additional listening options, hover over the player and click on the sharing icon on the player (bottom right). In this episode of CREATE. PHOTOGRAPHY, host Daniel Sigg will … Read More
Create (daily): More Impressionism
There was another snow fall in my city, this time in November and not October. We walked around our urban neighborhood after sunset and the streets were, as so often in our neighborhood and since the pandemic, very empty. The snowfall further prevented people from walking. I brought a long lens like I did during the last snow fall (see … Read More
Create (daily): Why Gear Does Not Matter
As photographers, we often worry about gear. I certainly have … trying to find the perfect camera, lens, or other tool. Film, Digital? I have been focusing on film photography and thought I would not go back to digital. Well, this wasn’t so. I have been shooting much more digital lately, for a few reasons. First, I wanted to do … Read More
Episode 010: Why To Creatively Pursue Black And White Photography
In this episode of CREATE. PHOTOGRAPHY, Daniel will discuss some thoughts and considerations why to creatively pursue black and white photography. Daniel will also review two images from two photographers (René Burri, Thomas Leuthard).
Episode 009: Lighting Essentials (with Don Giannatti)
In this episode of CREATE. PHOTOGRAPHY, host Daniel Sigg will discuss light, lighting and other creative topics with Don Giannatti. Don is a former commercial photographer, owner of an ad agency, and current photography mentor/coach.
Don understands lighting, and teaches how to light correctly (whether natural or with strobes or with reflectors or combinations of thereof) to photographers around the world.
Episode 008: Story Telling (with Ted Vieira)
In this episode of CREATE. PHOTOGRAPHY, host Daniel Sigg will discuss storytelling in photography with Ted Vieira.
Ted Vieira is a Las Vegas based photographer, focusing on portrait photography. He really appreciate seeing a photo that tells a story. Ted says that [the story] is the thing that makes someone keep coming back to look at the photo again.
I have been following Ted’s work for a while, and absolutely love his photography and his style. He also has one of the coolest voices on YouTube or the podcasting world! We had a great time discussing story telling and related topics around the creative process.
Create (daily): Story Telling in Series vs. Creating Mystery and Questions
I love photographers who focus on story, but at the moment, this is not my core focus. I discussed this in an earlier post.
I love minimalism, and reduction of images to its essence. Depending on your intent, the reduction / minimalism can cause viewers to lose context and do not understand the image. The question is whether this is so important.
Create (daily): What is Create (daily)?
Why Create (daily)?
I should have probably posted this in the beginning of this new “micro-blog” series. Since I am focusing a lot of my personal photography related efforts on my podcast (aside from my personal work of course), my regular blog posts might be getting a little less attention.
I love minimalism, and reduction of images to its essence. Depending on your intent, the reduction / minimalism can cause viewers to lose context and do not understand the image. The question is whether this is so important.
Create (daily): Reduction
By reduction I mean to reduce the image to its essence. Now sometimes this can be at the risk of losing the “story” or context. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t.
Create (daily): Minimalism
I am strongly influenced by minimalistic art, and love the minimalist style of architecture, photography, painting and even living. Although I do not practice minimalism I think there is much to be said about reducing things to the essence.
Episode 007: The Beauty of Simple Things – Introduction to Saul Leiter
This episode is about American photographer and color pioneer Saul Leiter (1923-2013). Daniel will give a brief introduction and discuss two of his images.
Create (daily): Impressionism
I love visual arts, and in particular paintings and sculptures (aside from photography). Impressionists like Monet, Sisley, Manet are, in my opinion, amazing.
Create (daily): Beauty vs Story (or Pattern vs Content)
At the moment, I am doing these daily dispatches as a way to put down some thoughts on “paper”.
About photography.
About the creative process.
Looking at my images, and reviewing some of Jay Maisel’s work in particular (there will be a future podcast on that!), I realize that a lot of my images are about beauty, including beautiful patterns. Should they be about story? So is it about beauty versus story or pattern versus content?
Create (daily): Double Exposures (Multi Exposures)
I personally do not work on double exposures. But I had an accident with my last roll of film.
Create (daily): Keynes
The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.
Create (daily): Snow, Rain, Fire
Playing around with the digital camera. Flames on the fence? Or what you can do playing with reflections and perspective. Snow, rain, fire The fireplace in my office was reflecting onto the window. I changed perspective to create the perception that the fire is on top of the snow covered fence. No photoshop, all in camera. abstract … office … Read More
Create (daily): 3 Rolls of Film
In the book I am reading “SHOW YOUR WORK”, author Austin Kleon talks about sharing behind the scenes stuff. I typically don’t do that, not sure why not? Maybe because I feel it’s not that interesting. But I decided I will share more things via my Create (Daily) posts. And so this seems to be a good platform to share stuff like this. Today, I finished the another roll of Kodak Portra 400, and have now 3 undeveloped rolls. Most of these photographs were shot in downtown Saint Paul and Minneapolis. Some of them were at night.
Create (daily): The Beginner’s Mind
Here a short-form daily blog post with random topics on creativity and the creative process. Things I read: at the moment, I am reading “SHOW YOUR WORK” by Austin Kleon. The book is small and inspirational, and talks about 10 ways to share your creativity. Under #1: you don’t have to be a genius, Austin talks about how we may … Read More
Episode 006: An American Mile (with Kyle McDougall)
In today’s episode, I have a discussion with Kyle McDougall about his project An American Mile. In American Mile, Kyle depicted a 256 days trip across the United States, exploring the small towns and backroads that are strewn across its vast landscape. We discuss this project and also projects in general. And along the way, touch on other topics such as medium film, sequencing (of images), format (of negatives), film stocks, printing, color, consistency, style and other topics related to the creative process.
Photoshoots, podcast, album cover art and other creative updates
Here are some updates of what has been going on creatively in the past several weeks.
Episode 005: The importance of photography projects
In this episode of CREATE. PHOTOGRAPHY we will discuss the importance of photography projects.
Photography projects are a fantastic way for photographers to focus some of their work, and to get and to stay motivated.