Coding and Design Tips & Tutorials

One of the best things about being a working photographer is absolutely getting to travel for work — but hours on an airplane (or a Greyhound bus) can get pretty boring, pretty quickly. Even if you're not traveling for work, if you've got summer adventures on the docket, it's wise to have a robust reading list ready to roll.

Meet the members of our first-ever CreativeLive Honor Roll! After pouring through all of your nominations, we selected these 12 brilliant individuals based on their hard work, creative vision, and dedication to learning.

[caption id="attachment_5624" align="aligncenter" width="620"] Photo by Mindy Tucker.

[caption id="attachment_5620" align="alignnone" width="620"] Image via Killer Infographics for the Seattle Office of Film+Music[/caption] The Seattle Office of Film+Music released this infographic last summer, but we liked it a lot and wanted to share it again to help dispel the myth that creative jobs can, in fact, be lucrative ones. The graphic was born when a young student asked then-director James Keblas the age old question: Can I quit my day job to be a musician?

The rules and theories of cinema can seem pretty abstract without concrete examples — though few film schools opt to use LEGO Star Wars characters to do the explaining. Filmmaker Victor Ha explained the 180 Degree Rule, a crucial spacial element which helps the viewer understand the physical relationship between two onscreen characters, in his CreativeLive course, Fundamentals of DSLR Filmmaking.

HBO: Where did the idea for this project come from?