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Mastering Telephoto Landscape Photography: Introduction

Telephoto lenses are often associated with capturing close-up shots of faraway subjects, such as wildlife or sports events. However, these powerful lenses can also be used to capture breathtaking landscape... View Content

Mastering Telephoto Landscape Photography: Lesson 1 - Understanding Your Lens

To master telephoto landscape photography, it's important to understand how telephoto lenses work and the benefits they offer for capturing breathtaking scenery. Unlike wide-angle lenses, which are commonly used in... View Content

Mastering Telephoto Landscape Photography: Lesson 2 - Choosing the Right Equipment

When it comes to mastering telephoto landscape photography, choosing the right equipment is essential. The equipment you use can make a significant difference in the quality of your photographs and... View Content

Mastering Telephoto Landscape Photography: Lesson 3 - Framing and Composition

Once you have chosen the right equipment for telephoto landscape photography, it's time to focus on framing and composition techniques that will help you capture amazing scenery with precision and... View Content

Mastering Telephoto Landscape Photography: Lesson 4 - Utilizing the Power of Light

When it comes to telephoto landscape photography, one of the most crucial elements is the effective use of light. Light has the power to transform a scene and bring out... View Content

What Settings Should I Use For Night Photography?

Photography has an extremely interesting progression of learning attached to it. If you’re anything like most photography enthusiasts, you probably started out shooting during bright sunlit hours while avoiding clouds... View Content

How to Create Windows to the Outdoors

In the art form of outdoor photography, you have many options to choose from in terms of composition. You can create wild foreground features or use leading lines to direct... View Content

Photographing Water: Ideas for Creating Great Photos

I love photographing water, whether in the form of waterfalls, streams, ponds, or coastal scenes. Creating water photos is fun and easy, if you know how to do it right.... View Content

Photographing Light as Your Subject

Generally, photographers think of light as the thing that illuminates the subject being photographed. There are times, however, when the light itself can be the subject—or at least an important... View Content

Using Triangles in Landscape Photography

In my over ten years as a professional landscape photographer, I’ve learned that artistic composition—the positioning of visual elements within the picture frame—is vitally important to taking successful photos. A... View Content

The Joy of Scouting

There are many times in photography where you get caught up in the details and lose sight of how photography can be fun instead of a challenge. Maybe it’s because... View Content

Trip Report: Leprechaun Canyon, Utah

During a recent trip to southeast Utah, I spotted a magnificent rainbow arcing high above the twisted red rock desert. Unable to resist its beckoning call, I followed the rainbow... View Content

Behind the Shot: Caineville Badlands, Utah

In the past, I’ve written and spoken a lot about how planning for landscape photography requires a lot of scouting, and patience. During a recent photo trip to the desert... View Content

Tips for Planning Landscape Shooting Locations

I often get asked the question: how do you find your landscape photography locations? Typically, a lot of planning goes into my choice of locations and compositions, sometimes even months... View Content

Lesson 1: Make, Don’t Take

It all begins by seeing the world around you with a creative eye; this course will help you to do just that. It will give you a creative tool set... View Content

Lesson 2: Be In The Moment

Of all the modules in this course, this is the most important to master. It will lay the foundation for everything that is to come. What is so important here?... View Content

Broadening Your Perspective with Panoramas

I want to put you in my boots for a moment. Keep in mind that they might be very broken in, large and probably wet because to get to any... View Content

Behind the Shot: Iceland Ice Cave

I recently got back from a two-week winter trip to Iceland. I was leading a photo tour there most of the time, which limited my ability to make my own... View Content

Behind the Shot: Firefall

Kilauea Volcano on the Big Island of Hawaii is one of the world's most active volcanoes. In early 2016, an eruption sent lava flowing slowly towards the ocean, the first... View Content

Behind the Shot: Mojave Desert Mud Cracks

Death Valley National Park, which lies in California’s vast Mojave Desert, is often thought of as a desolate, unforgiving place. This perception does not tell the full story of this... View Content

Trip Report: Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park

I recently spent a week in Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park, located on the Big Island of Hawaii. I had heard that after a long hiatus, lava was once again flowing... View Content

Trip Report: Badlands National Park

Rising from the monotonous and seemingly endless grasslands of the Great Plains, Badlands National Park in South Dakota contains sharply eroded formations carved out of multi-colored sedimentary rock layers. Water... View Content

Behind the Shot: Zion National Park’s Temple of Sinawava

With towering sandstone pinnacles, deciduous trees that turn vibrant colors in the fall, and an extensive network of canyons, Utah’s Zion National Park holds an endless range of opportunities for... View Content

Tips for Using Foreground to Create Depth

You will find that foregrounds add considerable depth and interest to your photo compositions, helping to lead the viewer’s eye deeper into the scene. View Content