Month: September 2018

The biggest problem in photography now: we have TOO MANY photos to look through. We are overwhelmed with our pictures, and we have no idea which of our photos are the best — and we’re uncertain which photos we should share/publish.

Dear friend,

A lot of folks are afraid of AI (artificial intelligence), and the effect of technology on our everyday lives. My suggestion: turn yourself into a centaur; half-man, half-machine.

Style: the impression you stick on your viewer.

Made on iPad Pro 10.5 inch. Studying the work of Leonardo da Vinci and other Renaissance painters:

To me, the best use of our human metabolism is to create art!

Basic idea: as a photographer, if you’re shooting street photography (or photographing anything that is moving), you are tracking the movement of the subject. The movement of the subject moving towards you, away from you, or in different directions. But how can we apply this machine learning concept of ‘image tracking’ to our photography? Some ideas:

Dali is the original surrealist:

Tip: Use the VSCO “distoria” filter to check whether your composition is good or not:

Dear friend,

I want to make the case why you might want to become an entrepreneur.

Bounding boxes are a fascinating concept for photographers– and a concept that many machine learning folks use to classify images, and detect images.

Made on iPad Pro and Procreate App:

To curate your photos means to ‘care’ about your photos. So when you’re curating your portfolio; figure out which photos really speak to you — and why they speak to you!

I met a guy named Ryan at ‘Backyard Brew‘ in Palo Alto, and was super inspired by him — he taught me this concept of the ‘straight line’: directly do what you want to do, without getting distracted by money or other kinks in the link.

To be human is to create. Some simple tips to boost your creativity; excerpted from our book, ‘Eternal Return to the Creative Everyday‘ (all custom illustrations made by Annette Kim):

Dear friend,

A basic idea: we are constantly in a state of becoming, a state of flux as photographers, artists, philosophers, and humans.