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Entries in laying down game (3)

Tuesday
10Nov2009

today at Bootcamp

DateTuesday, November 10, 2009 at 06:47PM

We just finished day 2 of our Digital Photography Bootcamp. Last night, my guest presenter was Gene Higa, a fantastic destination wedding photographer from the S.F. bay area. Gene showed the class how the power of great images, focused marketing, and creative self-promotion can really catapult your business. He is able to travel to the world's most beautiful locations photographing weddings and he was an inspiration to all of us.

Gene also played along with our Laying Down Game competition! He came up with a bold (self-torture?) idea to lie down in a freezing cold, stagnant pond. Way to take one for the team Gene! It'll make a great addition to our Laying Down Game Asukabook someday!

Gene shares his work and sources of inspiration with the class

Anytime is a good time for a little self-promotion!

Gene doing the Laying Down Game for us

Kinda weird, kinda artsy.

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Saturday
07Nov2009

Back from PartnerCon in New Orleans

DateSaturday, November 7, 2009 at 04:10PM

I'm home finally! Although I have to start a Bootcamp on Sunday, but I'm looking forward to that :-) I was a presenter at Pictage's PartnerCon and it was my first foray there. One thing that stood out to me was the sense of community that existed with the attendees. I really enjoyed that and the organizers did a great job of arranging meals there to give folks opportunities to wine and dine together in between educational sessions. It really helped bond them, I think. If you've been following me on twitter, then you probably know we spent most of our waking hours trying to find places to play the Laying Down Game. (I have some images in my previous post). It was crazy how many people really got in to it and took some hilarious photos themselves! I think that we have to crown Justine Ungaro as the honorary PartnerCon Laying Down Game Queen though, as few showed as much enthusiasm for the game as she. Way to live life, Justine!

Here are a few more shots from the convention. On the last day, I tagged along on an organized photo shoot with my friend, Jules Bianchi, and she allowed me to grab her class and do a photo with them too! Jules is a great teacher and really explains what she's looking for and trying to achieve in her wedding portraits. It was fun to watch her work.

I DO NOT recommend doing this at all! They just followed me...

 

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Wednesday
04Nov2009

the Laying Down Game

DateWednesday, November 4, 2009 at 02:34PM

It's official. The JustUs Team has setup www.LayingDownGame.net

Jed & Vicki Taufer introduced me to this crazy idea when we were out to dinner in NYC for the PPE convention. The concept is simple: lay down, face down, hands to the side, stiff as a board, in unusual places...well anywhere really. Then take a photo of yourself. It's hard to describe why this is so funny. It's just so out of context that it makes me cry laughing whenever we do this. This first image here was taken at a fancy pants restaurant called Tao in NYC and we were promptly asked to leave the restaurant after the photo was taken. Fortunately, we had finished our dinner! We laughed all the way to the front door and then knew we had to see where else we could get kicked out of...the Apple Store? Hotel lobbies? Ice Cream parlors? The middle of the busy street? A crowded night club? You'll have to look at the gallery to see what else we got in to.

From a photographers point of view, the photos may not immediately be seen as "artistic"...but they elicit emotion, some conflicted. It makes you think outside the box and once you start doing it, you begin to look at the world around you in a different way. I posed this challenge to one of my workshop groups (that I taught with Vicki & Jed in Vermont). The class loved it and turned in some crazy, and creative images! You'll see those in there too. It really emphasizes the importance of having a project, no matter how obscure, to stimulate your visual thinking and creativity.

Please be sure to leave your comments: why do you think this is so funny? Why is it so fun? Do you have a LDG photo to contribute? Send it to us at layingdowngame.net and we'll post it!

Click here to see the gallery of Laying Down Game images!

Laying Down Game in Tao, NYC

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