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  • TRAVEL NOTES: Photography Assignments & Inspiration Manual

    TRAVEL NOTES: Photography Assignments & Inspiration Manual

    Buy Travel Notes Print Edition, get Travel Notes Mobile Edition for Free

    Super awesome deal:

    If you buy TRAVEL NOTES (Print Edition) you will also get Travel Notes (Mobile Edition) for FREE!

    When you purchase TRAVEL NOTES (Print Edition) here, you will automatically get direct access to download Travel Notes (Mobile Edition) for free. This is the best to get the “best of both worlds”:

    Having BOTH the print edition AND the digital edition.

    I still think the print edition of Travel Notes is the best, as there are tons of prompts you can fill in, write in, and accompany you with. The reason we also designed it in hyper-orange is to make it visible inside your black bag, and also the color is optimized to SPARK passion in you — to be that little spark to motivate you to book that next travel, and travel more!

    Never stop traveling,

    ERIC

    Dear friend,

    Since dropping STREET NOTES, PHOTO JOURNAL, FILM NOTES, and STREET HUNT — we are very excited to share with you our newest creation:

    TRAVEL NOTES


    What is TRAVEL NOTES?

    Our personal ambition with TRAVEL NOTES:

    To inspire, motivate, and encourage you to TRAVEL MORE!

    TRAVEL NOTES is your personal guide, companion, and friend in your world journeys. Published locally in California, the hyper-orange cover will inspire and motivate you to travel more, explore more, and adventure more!

    Philosophical and Pragmatic

    What is great about TRAVEL NOTES:

    The book is highly pragmatic AND philosophical.

    There are a trillion books on travel and photography already. What isn’t there? A personal handbook that you can actively use, abuse, and travel with, in order to see more of the world, and derive more personal meaning from your travel photography.


    TRAVEL NOTES Chapters

    A preview to TRAVEL NOTES:

    PART 1: Before Your Trip

     
    1. Adopt a traveling mindset
    2. Why travel for photography?
      1. Travel to learn
      2. Travel to create
      3. Assignment: Why travel for photography?
    3. Planning your trip
      1. Assignment: Budget and plan your trip
    4. Setting goals
      1. Assignment: Set goals for your travels.
    5. Gear & Equipment
      1. Assignment: What do I desire to do while traveling?

    PART 2: During Your Trip

     
    1. Photography projects
      1. Project 1: Shoot your trip on 35mm/one type of film
      2. Project 2: Stick to one neighborhood.
      3. Project 3: Take photos while in transit.
      4. Assignment: Develop your travel photography project
    2. Where to shoot
      1. My favorite places to shoot around the world
      2. Assignment: Create a list of specific places to shoot in your destination.
    3. How to shoot while traveling
      1. Assignment: Create a photography and editing workflow
      2. Reminders
    4. Ten composition tips
      1. Keep it simple
      2. Hand gestures, body gestures, & eye contact
      3. Juxtaposition
      4. Pure aesthetic beauty
      5. Shoot a variety of photos
      6. Triangle composition
      7. Layers and depth
      8. Repetition & breaking the pattern
      9. Off-center subject
      10. Show scale

    PART 3: After Your Trip

     
    1. Choose your best photos
      1. Let your photos marinate
      2. Get a second opinion
      3. Look through your photos as thumbnails
      4. Follow your gut
    2. Share your photos
      1. Make a video slideshow
      2. Make a zine/photobook
      3. Blog about your experiences and post your photos
    3. Reminders
    4. Travel Photography Log
      1. Travel date(s)
      2. My favorite photo spots:
      3. What I learned during this trip:
      4. To do and what not to do

    SPREADS

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    How to use TRAVEL NOTES

    Step 1: Order TRAVEL NOTES in HAPTIC SHOP

    Step 2: Write your mission statement — Why do you travel? What do you want to photograph during your travels? Why do you think traveling will reinvigorate your photography? What are your personal travel goals?

    Step 3: Book and plan travel photography adventures

    Step 4: Being TRAVEL NOTES along with you during your travels (a good opportunity to zen-out with TRAVEL NOTES, a lovely cup of coffee, and some time to disconnect and reflect on life while photographing your travels)

    Step 5: Find inspiration, motivation, and practical travel photography tactics with TRAVEL NOTES during your trip.

    Step 6: Share your travel photos and experiences online, to your own website and blog, and use TRAVEL NOTES to schedule your next travel adventure!


    How TRAVEL NOTES will re-inspire your photography

    1. Discover new places to travel to and explore
    2. Reflect on why traveling and photography is important to you
    3. Give yourself more direction and purpose in your travel photography
    4. Learn practical tips and techniques on how to make better travel photos
    5. Set and track your travel photography goals
    6. Adopt a traveling mindset– using TRAVEL NOTES to broaden and open your mind to new experiences and photographic challenges
    7. Conquer your fears of traveling
    8. Use TRAVEL NOTES as a stimulus to your creative flourishing and creating
    9. Plan your next travel adventure and pursue a photography travel project.
    10. Travel photography composition, style, and editing tips.

    Invest in yourself!

    The best way to re-inspire and re-motivate yourself in photography isn’t to buy a new camera or lens, it is to TRAVEL MORE, EXPLORE MORE, and ADVENTURE MORE!

    TRAVEL NOTES is a tiny motivational spark. But we believe that TRAVEL NOTES might be the little spark to re-ignite your creative passion for photography!

    ERIC, CINDY, JENNIFER, ANNETTE [HAPTIC PRESS TEAM]

    TRAVEL NOTES SPECS

    1. Hyper-orange cover: Designed to motivate you to move and shoot, and also to quickly identify inside your camera bag
    2. Optimized to fit in the palm of your hand, in your front shirt pocket, or in your back jeans pocket.
    3. Printed with durable materials locally in California.
    4. Created for you to write in, scribble in, to fold, to use and abuse. TRAVEL NOTES is happiest when you’re using it!
    5. Practical and philosophical assignments, advice, tips, techniques, and pages to log your ideas, jot your ideas, and for you to reflect on your travel adventures.

    Where is your next photographic adventure? What new photos will you create? What new experiences will you experience?

    Pick up a copy of TRAVEL NOTES and discover for yourself!

    ADVENTURE AWAITS!

    ERIC

  • STREET HUNT: Street Photography Field Assignments Manual Print Edition

    STREET HUNT: Street Photography Field Assignments Manual Print Edition

    STREET HUNT is your personal guide to push yourself outside of your comfort zone, and to embark on new, exciting, and fun street photography adventures!


    What is STREET HUNT?

    Street hunt cover

    STREET HUNT is your new street photography field assignments manual, full of brand new, innovative, and challenging street photography adventures for you to embark on.

    If you’ve had a hard time staying inspired in your street photography and need a new shot of inspiration, let’s get hunting with STREET HUNT. Consider STREET HUNT as an expansion manual of STREET NOTES

    Other Editions:.

    > STREET HUNT MOBILE EDITION (comes in PDF to use on your phone, tablet, or computer).

    > PURCHASE STREET HUNT ON AMAZON

    Why STREET HUNT?

    Life is an adventure! I feel that all of us can improve our photography by staying true to our childlike mind, full of optimism, hope, and excitement.

    By going on photography hunts, you push yourself outside of your comfort zone. With STREET HUNT you will go to places that you usually don’t. Not only that, but STREET HUNT will encourage you to approach new strangers, learn about their life story, and also make photos of them.

    Pocket Sized: Everyday life optimized

    STREET HUNT is optimized for your everyday life, for you to find inspiration and motivation to shoot street photography, regardless of how busy you are.

    How to Use STREET HUNT

    STREET HUNT is full of assignments and reflection pages for you to write in

    Pick up the perfect Street Photography inspiration combination:

    1. STREET HUNT – Everyday photography assignments to shoot everywhere, anytime!
    2. STREET NOTES – Assignments to help you conquer your fears of shooting Street Photography.
    3. MASTERS – Essential lessons from the Masters of Photography.
    4. ULTIMATE BEGINNER’S GUIDE TO MASTERING STREET PHOTOGRAPHY – Your essential introduction to Street Photography.

    Never stop shooting

    Alongside STREET NOTES, PHOTO JOURNAL, and FILM NOTES— STREET HUNT will inspire you to shoot everyday, find more joy in exploring new places, and interacting and engaging with new strangers.

    Remember, life is an adventure. STREET HUNT will be your personal primer to living a more exciting, bold, and fun life.

    Let’s get hunting!
    Eric, Cindy, Annette

    Street Hunt Mobile Edition

    STREET HUNT: Street Photography Field Assignments Manual
    STREET HUNT: Street Photography Field Assignments Manual MOBILE EDITION

    If you prefer a digital edition, pick up STREET HUNT MOBILE EDITION (comes in PDF to use on your phone, tablet, or computer).

    If you prefer to use Amazon.com you can also purchase STREET HUNT Kindle Edition on Amazon.

    If you have any questions or issues, please contact Cindy at hapticindustries@gmail.com

    > PURCHASE STREET HUNT ON AMAZON

    If you have any questions or issues, please contact Cindy at hapticindustries@gmail.com

     

    Spreads

    Park assignment street hunt

    Places to explore street hunt

    Cafe assignment street hunt

     

  • FILM NOTES Print Edition

    FILM NOTES Print Edition

    FILM NOTES is your new electric-red companion to learn film photography.

    Inspire Yourself with FILM NOTES

    FILM NOTES is a distillation of everything I learned about film photography for the last six years. If I started film photography all over again, I wish I had a copy of FILM NOTES.

    With FILM NOTES, you will streamline your learning process on shooting film and learn the fundamentals of film photography such as:

    • Mastering manual exposure
    • Never missing the ‘decisive moment’
    • How to push film for street photography
    • Designing a custom workflow for developing, scanning, and storing film.

    Cindy and I believe that you can learn how to shoot film in a fun and easy way. FILM NOTES will demystify all of the confusing jargon online about film photography, and help direct you to enjoy the joy of shooting film.

    SHOOT FILM

    SHOOT FILM Original Artwork by ANNETTE KIM

    A Workshop That Fits in Your Back Pocket

    If you are a photographer curious about film, but have no idea where to start– FILM NOTES will kick-start your learning.

    FILM NOTES is a streamlined process to help you quickly and effectively learn the fundamentals of film photography, and help you steer clear of time-consuming mistakes that many film photography beginners make.

    Investing in FILM NOTES will complete your educational photography trifecta of STREET NOTES x PHOTO JOURNAL.

    Innovative User Interface

    We have spent countless hours perfecting, refining, and simplifying the worksheets in FILM NOTES. There is no other guide on the market which allows you to track your film settings to help you understand light and master exposure.

    The User Interface worksheets are comprehensive yet streamlined, to track your progress and self-learning in film photography.

    Always With You

    FILM NOTES is your new crimson-red companion on the streets. We intentionally designed FILM NOTES to fit in your back pocket, so you will always have inspiration at-hand.

    Use FILM NOTES when you’re out shooting on the streets, when you are commuting to work, and when you need a shot of inspiration (get it?)

    It also looks great as an Instagram photo with your film camera and cappuccino.

    Printed in Small Batches in California

    FILM NOTES is printed in California in small batches on 100% recycled paper by HAPTIC PRESS. Each copy of FILM NOTES is inspected by hand by our sisters Anna and Jennifer. This will ensure that your copy of FILM NOTES will be perfect for you to enjoy.

    Your purchase will support open-source information and photography on this blog, to continue to empower and educate the online photography community.

    Prefer Digital and Printable?

    Pick up your copy of FILM NOTES MOBILE to always have with you or to print out your own film worksheet pages.

    Connect With the Film Photography Community

    Join the FILM NOTES community of like-minded and passionate learners in the photography community.

    Share tips, host meet-ups, and follow along the photographic journey with the hashtag #FILMNOTES on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook.

  • PHOTO JOURNAL (PRINT EDITION)

    PHOTO JOURNAL (PRINT EDITION)

    Super pumped to share that PHOTO JOURNAL (Third Edition) is now available!


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    Fresh off the presses: Third Edition (2019) with Haptic Textured Paper now available!

    What is Photo Journal?


    Photo Journal is a Personal Photography handbook to inspire you to make your photography more personally meaningful.

    Photo Journal invites you to reflect on your photography, motivations, and dreams. This handbook is a friend to help you reflect on “why” — why you take photos, why photography is meaningful to you, and why creativity is important to you. Personal Photography is a tool to discover your own inner photography purpose and to better appreciate the beauty in the mundane.

    After the initial questions about gear, technique and style, what are the important deeper questions that draw you to photography? Why do you take photos? Do you shoot for yourself, or for others? Do you want to find more personal meaning through your photography?

     Example Prompts

    Photo Journal gives you 17 practical prompts or assignments such as:

    • Day 1: Why do I make photos?
    • Day 5: Do I need to take photos everyday?
    • Day 9: What constitutes a ‘good’ photo?
    • Day 14: Discover my inner child
    • Day 17: What do I want my legacy to be?

    Fits in your pocket

    We intentionally made Photo Journal pocket sized, 3.5 X 5.5 inches, 44 pages (100% recycled paper) so that you could always carry it with you in your front shirt pocket, back pocket, or bag.

    Photo Journal can always be carried with you while you’re on the streets shooting, on your morning commute, or enjoyed alongside a nice cup of coffee or glass of wine. Flip through the prompts whenever you uninspired and seek motivation in your photography.

    Photo Journal Reviews

    I just got this and it looks like it’s going to be very helpful. It’s a companion to Street Notes and as a novice photographer I needed some motivations to help me focus my growth. These little books and his website do just that.

    The book fosters new, creative ideas for street photography that I would not have thought of. Well done!

    I don’t do product reviews but I want to tell you that I loved your Photo Journal. It is very Zen-like and really made me think about my photography. I am retired and have a lot of time now to pursue my photography. The journal gave me some good ideas and I will refer to it to keep me thinking. Thank you.

     

    Our Mission

    Cindy and I believe in making educational resources that can empower and inspire. From this dream came Haptic Press, which published “Street Notes” and now “Photo Journal.” We hope that that these books can bring joy, gratitude, and spark creativity in your life. We priced Photo Journal at 19 USD because Photo Journal is printed in small, quality controlled batches in California. Each purchase will help to support open source information and keeping things free and open on the blog.

  • STREET NOTES (Print Edition)

    STREET NOTES (Print Edition)

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    Mission

     

    Cindy and I believe in making educational resources that can empower and inspire others. From this dream came “Street Notes”–a journal and resource for aspiring photographers. Over the past 2 years, we have worked hard to edit and distill down fifteen specific photography assignments that can help improve your photography.

    We designed Street Notes to not just be a book, but a tool. Street Notes is an interactive journal, a pocket-sized workshop, and a community of learners.

    Pocket-sized

    We intentionally made Street Notes pocket sized, 3.5 X 5.5 inches, 44 pages (100% recycled paper) so that you could always carry it with you. While many of the ideas have been published on the blog before, we wanted to create a pocket-sized “workshop in a book.”

    Street Notes can always be carried with you while you’re on the streets shooting, on your morning commute, or enjoyed alongside a nice cup of coffee or glass of wine.

    Street Notes Reviews

    “I’ve been a big fan of Eric’s and an avid follower of his blog for several years, having initially stumbled upon it looking for gear reviews when buying my first camera. If you’re not familiar, Eric is a street photographer and teacher, who, over the past five years or so, has used his blog as a medium to educate and empower aspiring “streettogs” by sharing the practical (technique-oriented) knowledge he has gained during his career, as well as distilled lessons from his studies of the masters of the genre and his own uplifting, well-considered musings on life and philosophy. If you haven’t already, do yourself a favor and check it out; it is a vast reservoir of insights that will accelerate your development as a photographer and one of the few “professional” blogs out there that isn’t constantly jamming ads or product links down your throat.

    I’ve done a couple photography workshops over the years, including PhotoUno’s introductory “Digital Photography I” in NYC (12 hours over six Saturdays for ~$600) and Eric Kim’s advanced “Discover Your Unique Voice in Street Photography” in LA (~24 hours over three days for ~$500). While I found each to be extremely valuable in my evolution as a photographer and would recommend either to anybody in a heartbeat, something I realized is that one of the best parts about attending workshops is that they simply force you to go out and shoot, because for me, sustaining that drive and inspiration to practice photography in my regular life is one of the biggest challenges I face as a non-professional photographer.

    Street Notes is the antidote to this all-too-common complaint. By providing a library of well-structured assignments designed by an experienced photographer/teacher, Street Notes essentially serves as an intermediate-to-advanced workshop-in-your-pocket for multiples less than what you’d pay for a live course. And, if used in conjunction with Eric’s blog, the only thing Street Notes does not provide versus the traditional workshop model is a live critique following assignment completion.

    Don’t get me wrong, nothing can ever replace the experience of a really good workshop or face-to-face critique, but for $20 Street Notes is worth every penny. Just chuck it in your camera bag (its well-made and can stand up to a beating) and any time you’re in need of motivation shoot, just bust it out and complete one of the assignments (and let the social media machine do its thing if you’re really driven by peer review).” – Alexander Amy

    Review of Street Notes by Keenan Rivals - Assisgntent #1: 5 Yes, 5 No

    Haptic Press

    We priced Street Notes at 19.95 USD because Street Notes is printed in small, quality controlled batches in California. Street Notes is a labor of love that we have worked hard to edit, design, and make as part of “Haptic Press“. Each purchase will help to support open source information and keeping things free and open on the blog.

    Community

    We hope that Street Notes will be a tool to connect with other photographers seeking to learn and improve their photography. Share tips, host meet ups, and follow along the photographic journey with the hashtag #streetnotes on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook.