MOTION
We Are Gonna Get Movin’
Motion is the New Visual Currency
Art directors are not being subtle about it anymore. If your portfolio has no motion, some of them will not look past the first page. That is not a trend to watch. It is a door closing, and it is closing now.
This eight-week live workshop is built for photographers who already know how to shoot. We are not starting from scratch on exposure or composition. We are taking what you already do well and adding the one thing your portfolio is missing. Stop motion, short video clips, cinemagraphs — the kind of motion work that lives on a portfolio page and makes a client stop scrolling. Six finished, portfolio-ready pieces in eight weeks. Live on Zoom every Saturday morning, with recordings, PDFs, a private peer review group, and direct critique from someone who has shot commercially for over 55 years.
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Six shoots across eight weeks:
Weeks with assignments:
Week 1 — Shot list and storyboard (no camera, just planning)
Week 2 — First shoot: static product with continuous light: simple camera move / simple light move
Week 3 — Second shoot: dramatic product motion, light placement and angle changes
Week 4 — Third shoot: tabletop sequence, building toward stop-motion thinking
Week 5 — Fourth shoot: stop-motion piece, complete
Week 6 — No new shoot. Critique stop-motion work and deep dive on cinemagraph theory and masking technique
Week 7 — Fifth shoot: cinemagraph
Week 8 — Sixth shoot: final piece, student’s choice of technique, post-processed and portfolio-ready
