NPN Mentors
Our mentors provide guidance by giving you one-on-one feedback on your images, giving encouragement, providing support on navigating the site, and showing you how to post images. Mentors are not expected to provide specific technical guidance; for example, demonstrating how to use Photoshop. Instead, they will help you understand what you need to learn and lead you in the right direction of where you can learn from our extensive list of resources of professional photographers.
Are you interested in becoming a mentor and giving back to the community? Please send us a message and tell us why you would be a good fit.
Specialties
Abstract, Landscape, Projects, Working with Beginners
Type of Mentoring Provided
Composition, exposure choice, processing, and expression.
Languages Spoken
English
Specialties
Landscape, Abstract
Type of Mentoring Provided
I mostly emphasize the art of seeing over processing. Mentoring would include studying the relationship between art and photography. We would look at imagery in terms of mimetic, emotional, formalistic, and conceptual. I can’t provide sophisticated knowledge in post-processing.
Languages Spoken
English
Specialties
Landscape, and helping beginners
Type of Mentoring Provided
I can offer support with processing, image critiques/feedback, reflective dialogue, and help navigating the site if needed.
Languages Spoken
English
Specialties
Abstract, Landscape, Working with Beginners, Projects
Type of Mentoring Provided
Navigating the NPN site
Critiquing (both offering and receiving)
Post-production considerations – Lightroom, Photoshop, TK8 luminosity panel
Composition – learning the “rules” and letting them go.
Gear considerations
Learning from the masters
What it means to be an artist – being, not doing.
Creating projects, monographs, or books
Printing
Languages Spoken
English
Specialties
Flora, Macro, Landscape, Working with Beginners
Type of Mentoring Provided
NPN site navigation | Photography basics and advanced techniques | Editing basics and advanced techniques | Problem-solving
Languages Spoken
English
Specialties
Abstract, Macro, Landscape
Type of Mentoring Provided
I am a generalist, so please ask about what you’d like. I’ll gladly help if I think I can.
Languages Spoken
English
Specialties
Flora, Macro, Landscape, Working with Beginners
Type of Mentoring Provided
Camera fundamentals.
Exposure fundamentals.
Single shot DOF techniques.
Composition basics,
Manual PS editing,
Cloning out distractions,
Creating maximum depth.
Enhancing definition.
Smooth water scenes.
Creating dark BGs using a flash.
Languages Spoken
English
Specialties
Working with Beginners, Landscape, Avian, Abstract, Flora, Macro
Type of Mentoring Provided
The basics of photography | photography gear needs and issues | photo composition considerations | editing tools and techniques | NPN site navigation.
Languages Spoken
English
Specialties
Abstract, Landscape, Working with Beginners, Projects
Type of Mentoring Provided
Everything from image composition and exposure in the field to post-processing back at the computer.
Languages Spoken
English, Czech
Specialties
Landscape, Macro
Type of Mentoring Provided
Basic principles of photography, how to use your camera, organize and plan a photo trip, organize and edit your photos in Lightroom or Photoshop, and color manage and print your photos. I am open to in-person, Zoom, or telephone meetings.
Languages Spoken
English
Specialties
Abstract, Landscape, Working with Beginners
Type of Mentoring Provided
Composition, learning to “see” and vision, exposure & fundamentals, image processing and NPN navigation.
Languages Spoken
English