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: Anatomy of a Puffin

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. I was recently struck by the fact that one of my puffin images, Puffin IV, had been selected into two [...]

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The Tuesday Composition: Communicating Immensity

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 most common challenges in landscape photography communicating the scale of large objects. Photographs seem to resist conveying [...]

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The Tuesday Composition: Telephoto Compression

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. Just as I often turn to wide-angle lenses when I want to create images with a sense of depth and [...]

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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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Photographing Bodie

East of California’s Sierra Nevada, north of Mono Lake lies the abandoned mining town of Bodie, California. Bodie boomed after the discovery of gold ore in the 1870s, by 1920 the town was in a steep and never-reversed decline. In 1962 the area was designated a California state historic park and remains that today. Several [...]

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The Tuesday Composition: Repetition

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. A while back we talked about visual echoes–and we primarily focused on repetitions of two similar or contrasting objects. Today [...]

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Book Review: Photographer’s Guide to Yosemite

One of the larger segments of the photographic book market is the “Photographer’s Guide” segment, numerous authors and publishers have, over the years, covered any number of photographic destinations. Michael Frye’s little  ::amazon(“1930238002″,”Photographer’s Guide to Yosemite”)::  is my favorite of the genre. It’s small, well-produced, and reflects the author’s deep knowledge of Yosemite National Park [...]

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The Tuesday Composition: Visual Echoes

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. As we discussed last week, centered compositions often describe or emphasize a relationship between one half of an image and [...]

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The Tuesday Composition: Sometimes Centering Does Work

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. As I’ve said before (and will keep saying), these photographic “rules” we talk about are more like dozens of tools [...]

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