Photographing the Deepest Valley in the US (Owens Valley Adventure, Part 1)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFwUy15vtXY In photography. It’s easy to focus on the results and to forget about the process. It’s easy to see the pretty picture and not have any sense of what actually went into creating it. Those early wake ups, the cold, the wind, but the truth is every photograph is like an iceberg. There’s this […]
Photographing Remote Arches at Sunrise in the Alabama Hills (Owens Valley Adventure, Part 3)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bykNVNAzW9g Now it is one fantastic day for chasing arches. I found this clue, this tree, last time I was up here, I think I made a fatal miscalculation. And I’m pretty sure that where the arches is not here at all, but way over on the next rise. I can see that tree right […]
The Most Remote Arch in the Alabama Hills (Owens Valley Adventure, Part 2)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nk-h5kU7vlU It’s Josh Cripps here. And I am out this morning, the Owens river here in the Owens Valley. Look at the light on those peaks. That is nice. This is not the reason that I’m actually out here this weekend. I’m headed to the Alabama Hills because there’s a specific arch that I want […]
Create PERFECT Milky Way Composites Blends in Photoshop (3 Common Mistakes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wi0N8hxgUP8 So I recently took a poll about one of my Milky way photos. And unfortunately I only got one response and that response was really harsh. That’s right. You was complaining about a very common problem in Milky way photography, which is the foreground and sky blend looking funky. So in this video, I’m […]
Finding Paradise: A Short Film About the Most Beautiful Place in California
Every time I’ve come close to dying. It’s involved a mountain, a steep slope and a somewhat reckless human. Uh, me, my name is Josh Cripps and I’ve had the unbelievable fortune to travel the world as a landscape photographer for most of the past decade. And in my years of adventuring around the planet, […]
Lightroom: 4 Features 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 […]
The Most Underrated Skill In Landscape Photography: SCOUTING
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_bu8CuwM6g If I could recommend one thing to you that would make the biggest difference in your landscape photography. It wouldn’t be to buy a new camera or get a spiffy lens or learn the latest Photoshop techniques. It would simply be this, get outside more. Excellent friends, Josh Cripps here, you know, I have […]
4 Tips For Kickass Telephoto Landscape Photos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyL0B-AUFmM&t=1s Hey. So as you can see, I’ve got a bunch of lenses lined up here on my desk. And if you had to guess, which one of these would you think is my personal favorite for landscape photography? Now you might be tempted to say that it’s the 14 millimeter ultra wide angle. This […]
How I Got The Shot: Stirling Falls, New Zealand. Behind the Scenes Landscape Photography
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tt46aJX8iag&t=371s Greetings my excellent friends. It’s Josh Cripps here. I’m going to be starting a new series here on the channel where I talk about the behind the scenes of some of my favourite or most well-known or signature photos. And I’m going to talk you through exactly what the shot is, how I got […]
Why I Will NEVER Replace a Sky in My Landscape Photographs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmikMgQjep0 Unbelievable. I just recorded this whole video and it wasn’t actually recording at all. All right, here we go again. What’s up everybody. It’s Josh Cripps here with another video. Sick sky bro! Capitol color chap. Whoa it’s sick conditions bra. Well, thanks guys. I appreciate that a lot. I can’t tell you how […]
Photographing Reflections in Dusy Basin, Kings Canyon National Park, California
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqxtt6QVN7Y Hey Everybody, it’s Josh Cripps here. And I’m in this place called Dusy Basin, which is in Kings Canyon National Park, my favorite national park in all of the United States, maybe even the world, and this is a place that I’ve wanted to come out for a while. So I’m pretty excited to […]
Lion’s Roar
Read The Story Buy A Print The Story Behind This Photograph: Taken at Milford Sound in Fiordland National Park, New Zealand on April 11th, 2016. While on a photo tour of New Zealand’s South Island our group was treated to a spectacular light show as the setting sun shone three fiery beams of light through […]
