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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.

Gary Randall July 26, 2019 16 Comments

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

Guy Tal July 1, 2019 29 Comments

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.

Sarah Marino June 13, 2019 23 Comments

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.

Alain Briot May 31, 2019 19 Comments

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”.

Dan Ballard May 1, 2019 20 Comments

Introducing ‘Nature First’ The Alliance for Responsible Nature Photography

Nature First is an alliance of nature photographers committed to protecting our lands by promoting a guiding set of principles

David Kingham April 22, 2019 27 Comments

The Colors of Spring – the “Other” Foliage Season

Ed shows us how the colors of spring are under-appreciated and can be just as beautiful, if not more so, than autumn.

Ed McGuirk April 1, 2019 12 Comments

The Power of the Intimate Composition

In today’s race for “epic” landscape imagery, the grand scenic dominates. Sweeping, wide-angle, near-far compositions built on aggressive leading lines and capped by colorful skies are almost certain to attract attention and take social media by storm. Antithetical to these grand compositions are the intimates that have seen a recent resurgence. In this article Alex explains how intimate compositions are the tinder with which the fire of imagination can be sparked.

Alex Noriega March 18, 2019 38 Comments