Articles by: Hanna Brooks Olsen

[caption id="attachment_9054" align="aligncenter" width="620"] Photo via etheremoon on Flickr.

[caption id="attachment_8899" align="alignnone" width="620"] Photo: Kate Ter Har via Flickr[/caption] Creative pioneer Adobe recently released a new study confirming, with hard data, what most of us already knew: That encouraging continued education, media literacy, and the overall creative pursuits of workers is good business. Called the Creative Dividend Survey, the partnership with Forrester Consulting was designed to quantify what a lot of people in the creative pursuits had theorized.

[caption id="attachment_8885" align="alignnone" width="620"] Photo: Little Visuals[/caption] Once the purview of teenagers with emotional issues, blogging has long since shed its negative connotations and, most marketing experts agree, is an essential element to any brand who's looking to further their online presence. Even if you're a sole proprietor or a small business, you need a blog.

There's been a whole lot of fun stuff on CreativeLive this Photo Week, from Peter Hurley and Sue Bryce kicking it off to host Russ acting as a model for Brooke Shaden, Lindsay Adler, and Jeff Rojas. But behind the scenes, the producers, crew, and instructors have been having a pretty good time in front of a different camera, thanks to the Slow Motion Booth.

If you were around the CreativeLive office (or even just watching on the stream), you might have noticed some of the crew and instructors rocking some fresh ink, in the form of our really cool Photo Week temporary tattoos. However, a lot of photographers actually go the distance and get real tattoos to demonstrate their love of the art.

[caption id="attachment_8775" align="alignnone" width="620"] Photo by chancema[/caption] In the new era of social sharing, one of the best ways to find new clients is to ensure that you, as a photographer, have a robust social presence. Which means you're probably putting your photos — your intellectual property, your livelihood, and things that could potentially make you money — out in the world for people to see.

“The whole point is speed," said Sue, who explained that, even though there are a ton of customizations possible, having just a few go-to defaults, which often come right along with the software, is just more economical for your business.

Instagram gets a bad reputation -- and, to be fair, there are some pretty not-great accounts out there. But there are also some users who are getting super creative with their feeds, playing with light, color, and even food to make beautiful visual art on a small medium.