Jessica Drossin

Creating Magical Images: You Already Have Everything You Need!

Jessica Drossin is a fine art portrait photographer with a powerful penchant for capturing compelling images in unstructured settings—on the fly with only what she has at hand, in natural light. She is a self-taught portraitist, obsessed with telling stories via images, and with teaching others how to look into a scene and see something different than everyone else sees. ‘Improv Photographer’ might be the most accurate title.

Her work is published internationally in magazines, books and in the entertainment industry, including clients like Lucas Arts. Jessica even worked for video game companies like Universal Interactive, and Blizzard Entertainment. Wedding Nouveau and Practical Photography magazines have featured her work.

Jessica Drossin has won several awards, including 2013 Emerging Professional Fine Art Photographer (from Digital Photo Pro Magazine). She documented a scoring session for the film, “Red Tails” in Prague an has created book cover art worldwide.

Her go-to camera is her Canon 5DSR, and she creates tutorials, actions, presents, textures and overlays to help other photographers bring their creative visions to life.

Creating Magical Images: You Already Have Everything You Need!

How do you as a photographer, make the best of what’s in front of you? Even when all your instructions were ignored and your client presents as a hot mess? Jessica Drossin aims to show us how to create incredible images on the fly. She’ll show us through her personal experience how to look at the scene in front of you with different eyes—to see something very different than you usually would. Her shooting style has become more improv in nature, and through it she has seen a whole new world of possibilities.