The 5 Commandments of Landscape Photography (Do These Or Fail)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wm7tZkJUIdU Now you’re recording yuupppp and this guy is recording too. Okay. Starting to get a little bit cold, and I’m going to put on a beanie because I’m kinda old and scene! You’re very welcome for that, everybody.   It is a major challenge to be prescriptive with art, right? Whenever I’m teaching workshops […]

Create a Magic, Dreamy Glow (Orton Effect) in Lightroom. It’s EASY.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCcG5xL9QXY&t=18s If you’ve ever come across a photo online that has a really nice, soft, focused, soft, glowy effect to it. And you’ve wondered exactly how the photographer managed that. Well, this is incredibly easy to accomplish in light room. In fact, it only takes two sliders and I’m going to show you how to […]

Stop Trying To Be A “Better” Photographer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0roGGAbNrnQ This is going to sound really weird, but one of the biggest mistakes I see with landscape photographers is that they’re constantly trying to get better, but this hand wavy a morphous pursuit of better can actually kill your progress as a photographer. And I’m going to tell you why right now. Greetings my […]

6 Tips For Killer Seascape Photography

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T17bcSXzMZs Greeting my excellent friends. It’s Josh Cripps here. I spent some of my most formative years as a photographer here, shooting along the coast, striving to capture it in photos and dodging many a row wave. Now, during those years, I learned many important lessons about what makes for powerful seascape photos. And in […]

Photographing Volcanos With Landscape Pro Ian Plant

Right. You always gotta be thinking about how you can take things up to the next level. You can’t just rest on your laurels. If you want to make really compelling photographs. Greetings my excellent friends. It’s Josh Cripps here on this episode of how I got the shot. I’m very excited to welcome a […]

My 5 Best Photos From 2020

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1rHc8rW7Bs&t=21s 2020! At times, it seemed like it would never end, but here we are, we’ve made it to the end, Holy cow. And it’s on to brighter days. God, I hope so. Anyway, like I do every year around this time, I recently took a look back at my previous 12 months of shooting […]

Composition: A simple, story-based approach to effective landscape photos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqp2iNRg-Sw Here’s a question for you. How do you tell truly captivating stories with your landscape photography stories that tell your viewers what you want them to know about a place I’d like you to ponder that for a minute? Because it seems to me that when you scroll through social media, these days, the […]

How to Photograph the Full Moon: 4 Tips for Epic Shots

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kX80l7rcMDQ&t=507s Oh, my God, look at the moon tonight! That is unbelievably beautiful! I’m going to take the best moon picture anybody has ever seen. That sucks. Hello my excellent friends. It’s Josh Cripps here. If you’ve been following me for any amount of time, you know that the full moon is one of my […]

4 Fantastic Features in Lightroom You NEED To Be Using

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjH4IOGpJxI&t=942s Hello my excellent friends! It’s Josh Cripps here. Now I like many of you use the Adobe suite to edit my photos. And in particular, I spend a lot of time in Lightroom. And today I want to share with you four fantastic features that I love about the program that I think you […]

How Much Post Processing Goes Into My Landscape Photos?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsW2zrLwPFA&t=144s Greetings my excellent friends. It’s Josh Cripps here. Now y’all know that I’m a huge believer that you don’t need to be a Photoshop expert in order to be a great landscape photographer. I have nothing against Photoshop and I think all those really cool advanced techniques can be useful tools when you know […]

7 Ideas to Shoot Stunning Landscape Photos in the Middle of the Day (LPQOTW)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uowBVeK7DVM Greetings my excellent friends it’s Josh Cripps here. And I’m back with another landscape photography question of the week. And this week’s question comes to us from Chris van Marter. And Chris asks, what advice do you have for taking landscape pictures in the middle of the day? I understand the reasons for shooting […]

EVERYTHING I Carry on a 20-Mile Photography Day Hike

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCiV9s7Nls8&t=719s Hey there, Joe pal here, JC. And today I’m coming at you from about 10 miles into the back country of Kings Canyon national park. I’m on a little day hike out here today for a couple of reasons. One, it’s just one of my favorite places in the whole world. I think it’s […]

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