Creating Novel Imagery in Popular Locations
Eric explores how to create unique imagery from well known locations
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Seeing Beneath the Surface
Alister discusses the negative impacts of photographing with expectations and how we can change our mindset to see beyond things and ourselves.
Turning Down The Volume
Eric discusses a more quiet approach to photography rather than the usual approach on social media of yelling to get attention with bold images.
Are Your Landscape Compositions Lacking? Try This
Learn how to tell a story using composition. Use visual weight to balance the characters in your image. Communicate the depth of of the 3d world in a 2d medium.
Working through Creative Slumps
Gary Randall describes his struggles with creative slumps and how to work your way through them when you hit this inevitable roadblock as an artist.
Take Your Bearings
“To chart a course, one must have a direction. In reality, the eye is no better than the philosophy behind it.” ~Berenice Abbott As a child, I loved everything wild and natural. Animals, landscapes, trees, flowers, seashores, deserts, mountains—the more removed from the artificial world of humanity, the better. I spent much of my time …
A Slice of Focus: Lessons for Photographing Plants Using Shallow Depth of Field
Sarah shares her techniques for photographing small scenes and macro using shallow depth of field to simplify and create abstract photographs.
Esquisses and Raw files
Alain shares his views on the art of post-processing in the digital darkroom and how it compares to musical scores.
Photography and Digital Manipulation: Finding a Middle Ground
One of the most important topics in the photography world revolves around the use of editing, artistic digital manipulation (such as composites) and recently, the very common practice of “peak stretching”.