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The Inspired Eye I
Notes on Creativity for Photographers, Vol.I
Understanding and nurturing our creativity is the first step in breaking out of our ruts. The Inspired Eye, Vol.I, is the first of a two-part discussion about the nature of inspiration and the creative process as it relates to photographers. A vital creative life and an understanding of how our own process work is the greatest asset a photographer can have and precedes any of our work with the camera or in the digital darkroom.
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Reviews and Comments
The first Craft&Vision ebook in my growing collection on iPad. After reading Within the Frame and VisionMongers i was hungry for more and more Vision stuff from Mr. DuChemin and, people, this book is absolutely stunning! Makes you think and every page inspires you for keep feeding your art. Thanks David!
Being creative is hard and finding inspiration comes when you are actively taking risks to find it. If you are stuck and following the same path day after day – expanding your ideas could start with the 7 suggestions found in this book.
This was my first book of craft&vision and I really love this book (and the follow up).
Even (or maybe because) it is not a “howto” it gives me some good hints on creativity and made me thinking about photography and mainly creativity. Thanks for that :-)
This series of books is my favourite of all the Craft and Vision eBooks. A great collection of thoughts on creativity and inspiration.
I’ve been a professional photographer for over 20 years and have been through my share of slumps and burn out. This is exactly what I needed to get me motivated and passionate again. I find David’s writing informative, straight up honest and at time humorous (I’d hope so coming from an ex-comedian).
I’ve started following him in Twitter, facebook and have watched a few of his podcasts too. I highly recommend this book or any in his series for anyone considering going pro, or any pro that needs a bit of a lift.
Davids perspective makes you think. The quotes he includes are a bonus and worth the price of the book alone!
The Inspired Eye Vol.1 is hardly a book. Its more like an open invitation into the thought process of a successful and creative photographer. The content is loose, free flowing, and teaches you the importance of working to your strengths.
Its about saying yes when no seems easier, or about making a mistake, another mistake, and another mistake before finding the right answer.
The book, while not a step-by-step manual to becoming creative, is something of a how-to guide. Its the slight guidance that helps refresh old rhetoric and bounce out of ruts.
I needed this…thank you David.
A more basic or fundamental look at what Creativity really is and how can we nurture it in ourselves. I don’t think this book is particularly useful if you’re at the very beginning of your photo-life. But once you’ve mastered your gear and know a bit about exposure, composition, your own style perhaps, this book opens a path to deeper and greater layers of creativity in yourself. It shows some of the most important things you really should be doing if you want your pictures to look better. The bad part is – it also confirms it’s a very hard job and takes lots and lots of work to improve your creativity so much as to take your photos to a world-class level. Come to think about it – maybe I shouldn’t have read it anyway… ;-)
I was in the process to become a photographic geek yet completely unsatisfied with my work until I bumped into David’s philosophy and after almost devorating the two 10 e books I bought this one and I think it could be the most valuable as it opens your eyes on how creativity – not restricted to phorography only- could be initiated, grown up and finally printed on your work. Hopefully many photographers put an eye on it in order to get more powerful images instead of bad copies of other one’s work. Congrats!
This short book doesn’t entertain….it makes you think about things. Not just photographic things, but life things. Makes you face when you were younger and a bit more liberal about life. Forces the question “what happened, why not now”. If you are stuck somewhere in your “vision” read this, only takes 30 minutes. It may open a few windows!
I really appreciate David’s approach to creativity and taking photographs with intent rather than snapping 1000 shots in a row and praying you’ll get something – I travel a lot and enjoy taking my time with photos but his books have made me slow down even more and now I don’t feel guilty if the rest of the crowd has already moved on without me. Like yoga relaxes the body, his books relax my photographic mind.
I enjoyed this book tremendously. It opened my eyes to a bunch of mental block I had been holding on to. But the biggest thing I got out of it was to be willing to make mistakes and “waste” some shots, take some risks. Thanks.
Always based around the idea of bettering your photography through vision and composition over the latest and greatest new tool. ‘The Inspired Eye’ takes a slight detour from his previous books as this is a book on inspiration and where it comes from, hence the title.
‘The Inspired Eye Vol.1’ reads more like random notes on inspiration other than a chapter by chapter affair but it works well and like his other ebooks, duChemin gets straight to the point. I like the way duChemin separates the text with small photos and quotes to let what he’s talking about sink in and be understood. It’s not that what he’s saying is necessarily groundbreaking, it’s just knowledge we should already know but clarified and discussed from a different angle.
The Inspired Eye discusses where Inspiration comes from and where it can be found. Inspiration by action, working environment, incubation of ideas, constraints, improvisation and mistakes all make for an interesting read to find where your inspiration comes from. This isn’t a guide or a how to book, it’s not even that deep and technical. These are basic concepts that need to be thought about to get your juices flowing again and again, for $5 it’s not a big ask for some clear, level headed knowledge on inspiration for photographers.
How to be creative is not something that can be taught, but it can be nurtured. We’re all creative, but sometimes we don’t know it. Sometimes we get “stuck” creatively and need a bit of inspiration. Well, this is it. The Inspired Eye will get you thinking about photography and the creative process in general.
A little different than the rest of how-to books. More like an essay to fuel your mind juices. Good food for thought…
What drew me to David was first Within the Frame, then it was VisionMongers. The Inspired Eye was the first set of eBooks I got, and I absolutely loved them! I was looking for help with creativity, and these did it for me!
A great book. I think what really stood out for me was when Du Chemin talks about the actual process of being creative. The “doing” as opposed to the “thinking-about-doing”. He really hits the nail on the head when he explains that the best artists are the ones who get better along the way (ie. while in the physical process of creating something). That is really the crux of this book for me.