Behind the Lens: Purakaunui Falls
Author: Joshua Cripps
is a photographer, teacher, and writer living in the spectacular Eastern Sierra.
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Chapter 3 – How to Use Physical Challenges to Improve Composition and Creativity
Learning Objective: Learn to use physical challenges to improve your composition and creativity. Key Points: Restrict your physical motion to learn to see better. Stay in one spot for 15 minutes. Use the 20 steps exercise to come up with novel compositions. Shoot from an unusual height off the ground. Lesson Materials Download Chapter Notes […]
Chapter 2 -How to use Visual Challenges to Improve Composition and Creativity
Learning Objective: Learn to use visual challenges to improve your composition and creativity. Key Points: If you use wide-angle lenses 99% of the time shoot with a telephoto exclusively for the next week. If you always shoot horizontal compositions shoot verticals exclusively for the next week. Lesson Materials Download Chapter Notes Here
Chapter 1 – How to Use Technical Challenges to Improve Your Camera Skills
Learning Objective: Learn to use technical challenges to improve your technical skills and thoughtfulness as a photographer. Key Points: Raw files are fantastic but they can also make us lazy as photographers. Why learn our craft if we can always fix our mistakes in post? By removing the flexibility of raw files and shooting only […]
Chapter 1 – Set Yourself Up For Success with a Pre-Shoot Checklist
Learning Objective: Create a checklist to take care of “oh crap!” moments before you even leave the house. Key Points: Have a charged battery in the camera and a spare in your bag. Have an empty memory card in the camera and a spare in your bag. Don’t forget your tripod, filters, lenses, and remote. […]
Chapter 1 – Getting Low Light Naturally
Learning Objective: Learn when to get low light naturally. Key Points: Long exposures all have one thing in common: limited light entering the camera. This allows the shutter speed to be stretched longer and longer. Real-World Troubleshooting: What to do when you can’t get the shutter speed you’d like for a certain scene. Lesson Materials […]
Chapter 1 – The Best Light for Every Scene
Learning Objective: Understand why bright sunlight is often so bad for photographs and how you can use bright light to your advantage. Learn what kinds of light work best for different kinds of scenes. Key Points: Bright sunlight creates a huge amount of dynamic range to overcome, superbright highlights and deep shadows. This leads to […]
Chapter 1 – Using Visual Tension and Balance to Place Multiple Subjects in Your Frame
Learning Objective: Understand what Visual Tension and Visual Balance are and how they help you compose images that feel right. Key Points: Visual tension is the idea that you have multiple subjects pulling your eye throughout the frame. By placing those elements in specific spots you can effectively use the entire real estate of your […]
Chapter 1 – Find Amazing Foregrounds by Understanding the Three Types of Contrast
Learning Objective: Learn how to utilize the three types of contrast to find foreground elements that pop. Key Points: There are three types of contrast, and using foreground elements that exhibit these contrasts will make them more powerful. Color contrast. Tonal contrast. Textural contrast. Combine the three kinds for even more punch. Lesson Materials Download […]
Chapter 1 – Using Your Wide Angle Lens To Create a Sense of Being There
Learning Objective: Set up a wide-angle close-focus composition to create a sense of “being there” and help your viewers step into the scene. Key Points: Wide angle lenses bring the foreground right up to the camera, create a sense of connection to the scene, and make viewer feel as through they could step into […]
