The Tuesday Composition: Lighting and Composition

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 few years back, Frans Lanting said something in passing that’s really stuck with me, I presume it’s an old [...]

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The Tuesday Composition: Working with Silhouettes

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. For the past week and a half, I’ve been shooting in New Mexico; and for the last few days I’ve [...]

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The Tuesday Composition: Live and In Color

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. Even though we’re twenty or so columns into this series, nearly everything I’ve said so far about composition applies equally [...]

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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: 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: 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: 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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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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