The Philosophy of Photography Through Angle Studies

Former opera singer turned commercial photographer Erick Hercules has spent a decade connecting the dots between music theory and visual storytelling, developing 60 pages of original research into why certain images stop us cold. In this presentation, Erick introduces his Angle Studies framework, exploring how angles, shapes, and composition create emotional responses in viewers, what makes a photograph mathematically and emotionally powerful, and how understanding the hidden language of perspective can transform the way you shoot and see the world around you.

A hands-on workshop where participants learn the timing, angles, and technical thinking behind levitation photography, one of the most attention-grabbing techniques in commercial photography. Erick breaks down the physics and the creative logic, and gets everyone shooting.