The Tuesday Composition: Just Move!

If you like this article, you can now get the book! Joe has expanded the “Tuesday Composition” series into an inspiring new ebook on composition, especially for nature photography. Check it out: The Tuesday Composition. Keep moving! One of the best things about giving “shoot and critique” workshops is that I get the opportunity to [...]

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The Tuesday Composition: Not so much rules…

And thirdly, the code is more what you’d call “guidelines” than actual rules –Barbossa, Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl If you like this article, you can now get the book! Joe has expanded the “Tuesday Composition” series into an inspiring new ebook on composition, especially for nature photography. Check it out: [...]

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The Tuesday Composition: Diptychs and More

If you like this article, you can now get the book! Joe has expanded the “Tuesday Composition” series into an inspiring new ebook on composition, especially for nature photography. Check it out: The Tuesday Composition. So far in this series we’ve discussed images “in the box” of a single rectangular frame. Today, I’ll talk a [...]

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The Tuesday Composition: The Attraction of Opposites

If you like this article, you can now get the book! Joe has expanded the “Tuesday Composition” series into an inspiring new ebook on composition, especially for nature photography. Check it out: The Tuesday Composition. Opposites attract … our attention. Opposition is one of the primary themes in photographic composition, one which was first emphasized [...]

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The Tuesday Composition: Composing Images with Water

If you like this article, you can now get the book! Joe has expanded the “Tuesday Composition” series into an inspiring new ebook on composition, especially for nature photography. Check it out: The Tuesday Composition. Like mist and fog, water is a subject that deserves it’s own consideration compositionally. With the exception of very still [...]

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The Tuesday Composition: Framed, Inside and Out

If you like this article, you can now get the book! Joe has expanded the “Tuesday Composition” series into an inspiring new ebook on composition, especially for nature photography. Check it out: The Tuesday Composition. Many of the topics we’ve discussed so far talk about the relationship between two objects in an image, from their [...]

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The Tuesday Composition: Both Near and Far

If you like this article, you can now get the book! Joe has expanded the “Tuesday Composition” series into an inspiring new ebook on composition, especially for nature photography. Check it out: The Tuesday Composition. One of the more common idioms in landscape of photography is the near-far composition, a powerful technique for creating depth [...]

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The Tuesday Composition: Scale

If you like this article, you can now get the book! Joe has expanded the “Tuesday Composition” series into an inspiring new ebook on composition, especially for nature photography. Check it out: The Tuesday Composition. One of the axes on which I measure compositions is their degree of complexity–not just the complexity of the image [...]

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The Tuesday Composition: Compositional Shapes

If you like this article, you can now get the book! Joe has expanded the “Tuesday Composition” series into an inspiring new ebook on composition, especially for nature photography. Check it out: The Tuesday Composition. In previous posts in this series, I’ve talked a lot about how the elements within an image play into how [...]

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Wedding Photography and Using Your Surroundings

One of the things that quickly distinguishes a professional photographer from an amateur is the ability to select a good location for a portrait (also, professional photographers have an air of mystery and suave intrigue about them, like James Bond).   I see this every weekend when I’m shooting weddings (I’m a wedding photographer in [...]

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