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One question that I get on my workshops is: how do you know what to photograph? I’ve thought about this recently, because I’ve gotten the question more this year than in past years, and I’ve been able to simplify…
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How I Changed My Life By Not Changing My Life and How Photography Helped
Recently, I read about how a photographer changed his life. Basically, he sold off all his stuff, paid off his debts, lost weight, found a god, bought a van and decided to live out of it and camp and travel…
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November Newsletter: Waiting for the Conditions to Change in Photography
October was a crazy busy month for me. I taught many one-on-one lessons and then went out east to Tennessee and North Carolina to teach my Great Smoky Mountains National Park Photography Workshop. I photographed the park for two week…
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October Newsletter: Shooting the Lunar Eclipse
Fall in the northland went fast this year. The reds seemed to go from green to peak to falling off the trees in less than 5 days. The fall in the northland went slow this year. The yellows seemed to…
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September Newsletter: How to Remove Dust Spots Using Lightroom
One of banes of digital photographers is dust spots, and unless you’re religious about cleaning your sensor, you more than likely have dust on it that’s creating dust spots in your pictures. Unless you train your eye to see these…
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Does Every Good Photo Need to Tell a Story? (Photography Myth Debunked)
One of the most persistent myths in photography is that every great image must tell a story. I disagree — and I think it’s holding photographers back. Where This Myth Comes From The idea likely evolved from photojournalism, where the…
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Forget the Settings and Learn the Principles of Photography
For this month’s newsletter, I’ll discuss a few of the principles of photography. Specifically, the creative relationships between shutter speed and aperture. Over the years, I’ve attended a number of presentations from other photographers in which they discuss aperture and…
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Desensitized Color Syndrome in Landscape Photography
Before you start reading this essay, understand that all artists have unique approaches to how they tackle their artwork. In digital photography, I’m going to guess that 99%+ of professional landscape artists use some sort of digital processing for their…