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You can listen to me on Episode 124 of the Street Shots Photography Podcast. During this hour-plus episode, I discuss a variety of photography topics with with New York City photographer Antonio Rosario, including the fact that even though we have very different styles of shooting, we share a number of things in common, including our former jobs as stock photography editors.
I had met Antonio a couple years ago at the PhotoPlus trade show, but only briefly. It was just a quick introduction before I had to high tail it over to Penn Station and catch the Newark train.
He’s a fellow Fuji shooter and so we talked at length about the legendary Fuji colors, creativity, trusting your creative instincts, and developing a style during our early years of shooting. We also veered into a number of other topics, as it always happens during these kinds of extended conversations.
During the session, I outlined what I feel are some of the most essential compositional techniques that can help you increase the visual power of your imagery, and I also answered questions from the participants who had tuned in to watch the talk.
This was, by far, the more interesting and fun part of the event, because it’s always more fun to engage with viewers and expand on the dialog that each question introduces than sit there and lecture the iPad screen.
In fact, most of the time was spent answering questions and sharing my insight about a number of different photography topics and ideas.
This has been a weird year indeed. Usually by the middle of summer, I’ve done a number of in-person talks and presentations in different areas around the country, but obvious with the Covid pandemic, we’re limited to doing webinars and Zoom chats.
They’re ok, but I can’t wait to get back to regular social life.
In this bite-sized, fifteen minute workshop, I take you to the shores of Colony Glacier here in Alaska, where I explore a small section of the scene and walk you through the process of creating a few landscape images right there on location.
With clear instruction, I explain my process for evaluating the scene, looking for possible subjects and narrowing them down into a workable composition. Using a selection three different lenses, I break them down into Wide, Middle and Long, and give you specific tips for maximizing each kind of lens when working your frame.
I also deal with exposure issues and show you how it’s possible to create a series of compelling images, even when you don’t have very dramatic light. In fact, I think that shooting in less-than-ideal light can offer a better opportunity for learning, because most of us already know how to make photos in beautiful light.
In addiiton, when you have that kind of brilliant, magical light on your subject, it’s easy to focus solely on that and miss some of the other compositional tips that can lend to a more powerful photograph.
This lesson isn’t just for Fuji users. Even though I use my X Series cameras and lenses to create these photos, the methods I talk about are universal. The process of seeing, composing and using different focal lengths applies to any kind of camera system, and the general look and feel of my Fuji-specific adjustments can easily be created in post processing, if that’s your preferred workflow.
I’m pretty excited about this lesson, and I definitely plan to do more of these \\mini virtual photo workshops. Not only does it allow you to come along with me in places that you might not normally be able to visit and get direct, real-world photography tips from me on location, I see this style of instruction as a natural progression of the kinds of online tutorials that I’ve been working up to.
Dan Bailey's Adventure Photography BlogPosted on by Dan
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Dan Bailey's Adventure Photography BlogPosted on by Dan
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