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October 2021
Looking back on the previous month and checking against my list of targets and goals initially I think that I have achieved nothing. In reality I had a surprise result where I won a Judges choice award in a gallery exhibition and I reacquainted myself with using flash in a home studio setting, rapidly followed by converting to and falling in love with a studio strobe with a modelling light. The use of a modelling light makes achieving Rembrandt and Loop lights so much easier as you can see where the shadows will fall and this opens the door, for me anyway, to creating more dramatic black and white portraits.
This is why I think it is so important to set goals and to review achievements, as its a way of understanding what progress you have made Without a goal and a review you have nothing to measure your progress against. If you can’t measure progress how do you know when you have achieved what you set out to do?
Another example of this is my goal to publish this magazine on Amazon, both in Kindle and Paper formats. The Kindle version is up and running for last months magazine (see link below) but the paper version has caused me some difficulties, in that the layout and size is a little different to the way I currently create the magazine. Hopefully as I write this I have resolved the problem and I’m am now waiting for approval from Amazon that they will publish the mag!
Printed Magazine now available on Amazon
This month sees the mycreativeimages magazine land on Amazon as a printed copy. This means that you can now own a copy of the magazine and enjoy both the artwork and the knowledge that buy purchasing it you are supporting a local small business.
Click here to visit the slaes page on Amazon.
Artist Achievements
In August the magazine I entered two competitions, an online photo contest for black and white images and a physical exhibition in a gallery.
The online competition offered some interesting insights, one of which was the need to carefully select a photograph that would appeal to a wide range of people, but the main one being the option of running similar events being explored.
The gallery exhibition resulted in a surprise 2nd place, which was awarded by a judges selection, this was for the self-portrait composition titled “On Cloud 9” shown opposite.
Anyway, enough waffle from me, its time you head in to the magazine and enjoy the amazing artwork in this months magazine by clicking here
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