A Blog From Madeline Strum Studios
Find behind-the-scenes stories, tips, tricks, and some things that made me pull out my phone
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Time to Party
End of election day brought the option to gather with local candidates, but it didn’t seem fun
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Small Business Roundtable
An in-person small business roundtable with City Council and Small Business Services taught me a lot
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Puppy Yoga Prep
Waiting three years to post cute pictures from storyboarding an upcoming fitness shoot
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Week of Dance
My old elementary and my current middle school both asked for help creating videos of their spring dance performances
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Two Shopping Carts
Walking to a nearby hospital to donate blood, I crossed paths with these two shopping carts someone left on the corner. I did not really want to get closer in case someone mistook me for a thief, so it’s not the most dramatic picture. Stealing one shopping cart is reasonable, but two is excessive. It…
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Better in B&W?
I don’t usually convert my pictures, but this one felt like the action might benefit from being reduced to black & white. Bright blue versus dark blue was begging me play with the levels. Photoshop is my jam, so I’m not simply taking down the saturation to 0%. While I was able to differentiate the…
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Just Brooklyn
Coming down the stairs to wait for a train to board, I saw a man cleaning his feet on the subway bench while cops casually arrested a man nearby. I didn’t think I should take out my phone. It seemed like a task for AI. When I switched lines at another station, I took a…
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Rewarded
Finding the real location for a Sunday game in September was something else. Coaches gave us a street address instead of the park name. The address was for a city sanitation site… We went in circles and cursed traffic. We hustled. We made it on time. It was such a sunny day for a game,…
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