Refracted Impression
People will assume this was made on an easel. It was made through a lens.
Abstract image fragmentation, made in camera. A short course on one technique with Martin Osner. Optical distortion, used to take a photograph apart and reassemble it into layered, repeated planes, closer to Cubism than to anything most people would call a photograph.
Five lessons on the technique. Six weeks in the Inspire Community. And should you go on to Getting Started, it costs you nothing at all.
The same photograph, twice
An ordinary picture, and then something rather extraordinary
A simple photograph, put through one easy technique, done entirely by hand. Nothing was added afterwards, nothing was painted on, and Photoshop never came near it. What you are looking at is an organic, artistic transformation, made at the moment the shutter goes.
Nine pieces created using this technique
Every one of them a Refracted Impression
By Academy students, and by artists who now advise the Academy. Not one of them looks like another, which is the thing about this technique that keeps people at it.
Why this course exists
It is here for the people who are not sure yet
Getting Started in Art Photography is $690 and eight weeks of your life, and it is entirely reasonable to want to know what you are walking into before you commit to that. This is how you find out, for $39, by actually doing it rather than by reading about it.
You test the teaching
Is this how you like to be taught?
Martin on camera, short lessons, one idea at a time, and a technique explained until you can do it rather than until it has been mentioned. If his way of teaching does not suit you, better to know now.
You test the machinery
The library, the videos, the app
You see how a course sits in your own library, how you find a lesson eight months later, and how it all works on a phone when you are nowhere near a desk. This is the part people worry about most and ask about least.
You test the room
Six weeks in the Inspire Community
Put your piece up, get told honestly what is and is not working, and see the standard of the work around you. Included with the course, and it is where most of the doubt gets settled.
Joining
Refracted Impression
Abstract image fragmentation, made in camera
Refracted Impression
$39
One payment, and the lessons stay yours
- Five lessons on the technique, from equipment to finished piece
- Six more lessons on fine art photography and how the Academy works
- Six weeks in the Inspire Community
- At least one Open Mic evening and one creative challenge
- Watch at your own pace, on a laptop or on the app
- No jargon, and nothing that assumes you already know the language
- The $39 back off Getting Started if you go on within six weeks
The questions we usually get
Before you start
Why is it $39 and not free?
Do I need Photoshop?
What happens after the six weeks?
What if I do not like it?
Thirty nine dollars to find out for certain
One technique, taught properly, six weeks in the room, and the money back off the full course if you go on. There is not a great deal left to lose here.
Let me try it