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Enchanted Diversity in Fantasy Photography

The Enchanted Diversity creative challenge is here, in light of the Black Fae Day and Enchanted Asian Day movements. Here are some of the community favourites from the Fairytales & Fantasy with Bella Kotak FB group!

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Fantasy Photography Self Portraits Challenge!

Our Creative Challenges are BACK! To kickstart the new monthly challenges we wanted to get to know our Fairytale and Fantasy community a bit better. Since we have lots of new creatives who’ve joined us since we last ran the challenges, what better than to introduce ourselves to each other with fantasy photography self portraits!

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Photographers Create Beautiful Autumn Mood Photos

This week we wanted to get into the autumn mood and see all of your magical images that celebrate this beautiful vibrant season!

Scroll through for forests, witches, antlers, elves, berries and pumpkins galore!

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Stunning Fantasy Photographs Captured In One Shot!

September 23, 2020 Photographer Spotlight

For this week’s creative challenge, we wanted to see your One Shot wonders! We asked you to share your images where you were able to capture your creativity in camera! All these images only have color toning and retouching but no composition work done in post process.

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Creative photoshoots in beautiful locations!

August 31, 2020 Photographer Spotlight

This week’s photography challenge takes us on a magic carpet ride around the globe, showing us a whole new world!

Forget your compass and get lost amongst the castles of Germany and Poland, forests of Belgium and Scotland, ancient churches and waterfalls of Italy, temples of Japan, and the eerie black sand beaches of Iceland…

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50 Incredible Before/After Photoshop Transformations

August 27, 2020 Photographer Spotlight

50 Incredible Before/After Photoshop Transformations. This week’s creative challenge theme is BEFORE / AFTER.

This gallery really shows what a difference color toning and compositing elements can make to an image!

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Creative Challenge: From A Story Book

August 14, 2020 Photographer Spotlight

This week’s creative challenge theme is From A Story Book.

Fantasy and fairytales are all about storytelling, and we are all often inspired by tales from our childhood or myths and legends.

Characters, concepts, and colors all play a part in our creative journeys, so we were excited to see how story books have inspired your own work!

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Creative Challenge: Animal Kingdom

August 5, 2020 Photographer Spotlight

This week’s challenge is ANIMAL KINGDOM!

Scroll through our community gallery of zoological wonders, including owls, horses, foxes, wolves, bears, deer, rabbits and more! If you look carefully, you might even see some rarer creatures such as elephants, tortoises, snails, snakes and tarantulas!

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Creative Challenge: Surrealism

July 27, 2020 Photographer Spotlight

This week’s challenge was based on the theme of SURREALISM.

I like to think of it as creating and expressing yourself without the boundaries of reality.

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Creative Challenge: Self Portrait

July 15, 2020 Photographer Spotlight

This week I challenged you to share yourself with us! I figured this challenge would be a great way for our community to connect and see the faces behind all the beautiful art that you share 💖

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Creative Challenge: Water

July 10, 2020 Photographer Spotlight

Our latest creative challenge was with the theme WATER. The creativity of this community continues to blow me away every week!

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Color Challenge: Green

July 2, 2020 Photographer Spotlight

For our final challenge in this month of color challenges we are going to focus on the color of nature, life, and opulence.

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Color Challenge: Yellow

June 21, 2020 Photographer Spotlight

Here are our featured submissions from last week’s creative color change! We focused on the color YELLOW! A color that is bright, warm, friendly and is associated with creativity which you will see in the images below!

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Color Challenge: Blue

June 16, 2020 Photographer Spotlight

For our second creative challenge during this month exploring color we are going to focus on the color of the sea and sky, Blue! Here are your submissions!

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Color Challenge: Red

June 10, 2020 Photographer Spotlight

Our challenge for week 5 was RED and the submissions were fire!

Red is a color that is very emotionally intense. It’s connected to blood, rage, love, romance, danger, anger, desire, and so on.
For this blog post we are showcasing the pictures that you loved the most in the community group!

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Bella Kotak Challenge: 4 | Portraits

May 29, 2020 Photographer Spotlight

Our challenge for week 4 was PORTRAITS and my goodness, you all delivered! The submissions to this challenge were incredible and varied!

For this blog post we are showcasing the pictures that you loved the most in the community group!

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From model to self portrait photographer!

May 21, 2020 Photographer Spotlight

Today I want to introduce my friend Yinsey whom I’ve had the pleasure of shooting and working with in the past. A creative soul, Yinsey spends her days working as a lawyer and any time out side of work she’s cooking up and executing creative ideas!

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Bella Kotak Challenge: 3 | Composite

May 19, 2020 Photographer Spotlight

Last week’s creative challenge theme was COMPOSITION.
With this challenge we wanted to see how you used Photoshop to bring your visions to life! That includes everything from expanding shots, adding elements into a shot, changing backgrounds, and so on!

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Bella Kotak Challenge: 2 | Made At Home

May 11, 2020 Photographer Spotlight

Last week’s theme was MADE AT HOME.
With this challenge we wanted you to share your artistic endeavours in order to inspire, motivate, and just get us reaching for the glue gun!

Well, you did it! Here are some of our favourite submissions from the group!

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The Color With Bella Kotak Series - Before / After

Introducing the ‘Color With’ Series!

April 30, 2020 Photoshop

You are invited to edit along with Bella Kotak in real time as she creates her striking color palettes step by step. We will be using Photoshop for the entire process!

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Bella Kotak Challenge: 1 | Floral

April 27, 2020 Photographer Spotlight

In April, while many of us are on lockdown at home, we decided to start weekly challenges in our Facebook groups! Fairytales and Fantasy; The Color Lab Collective.

Last Monday we invited our community to submit their spring/ floral images, both new and old. The goal is to inspire, motivate, and connect with each other!

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Welcome to The Color Lab

April 27, 2020 Color grading

Hello everyone, Bella Kotak here! I’m so excited to introduce you to our brand new website! It’s our goal to expand our focus to include …

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Color Toning a Cinematic Portrait

September 8, 2019 Color grading

Capturing a cinematic portrait is often about more than just the hours of planning and hard work that comes before you press the shutter button. …

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