Entries from Studio Mathewes tagged with 'creativity'

Film work: powerful sky

It's a big, big world. We can only understand so much of it.

Film work: around the house

Sometimes I don't have the time to get out of the house. I make photographs anyway.

Film work: parking lot markers

After the big snow awhile back, I started to notice how all the salt and melting made the parking lots around campus look quite different.

Artist's Way: My Inspiration Jar

Awhile back, I started an inspiration jar, made from an old mason jar whose lid I lost somewhere. I hated to let the jar go to waste, or even be recycled, since a jar can be such a useful thing, even without its lid.

Digital and analog: medium & mindset

Revisiting this medium has been refreshing for me. I hope to glean more lessons from it and bring them into my digital work. I also know that the many things I've learned with my digital camera will feed into what I decide to do with my film. Each medium feeds another, and this is true for film, digital, drawing, painting, sewing, cooking... any creative venture, really.

The habit of creativity

Being in the practice of analyzing my environment with a photograph in mind is vital. It's the photographer's equivalent to an athlete's stretching session: warm and tone your creative muscles, and you'll get better results when the pressure is on.

When You Can't Think of What to Photograph

When I was in college, I spent a summer as a "freelance childcare provider" so that I could work the hours I wanted to, save all my money, and take a class from the Maine Photographic Workshops. I wanted to...