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How We Choose Our National Parks
“How come you don’t teach in Yosemite, Yellowstone, or the Tetons?” This is a common question, and there are four principles that determine National Park selection.
Read MoreCanyonlands Curriculum Coming Soon
Canyonlands National Park is an adventure park, and our curriculum will include about 50 miles of challenging four-wheel-drive roads that lead to many incredible, not often seen, photographic opportunities.
Read MoreMojave National Preserve Expedition
February is just over the horizon and now is the time to register for the Mojave National Preserve Master Class Workshop. Mojave National Preserve, one of the newest National Parks and the third largest in the lower 48, is a land of desert wilderness, abandoned mines, and ghostly homesteads. Out here, rain is an episodic event, but solitude and peace abound every day.
Read MoreOnline Post-Production & Landscape Photography Classes
During this past year, we tested and developed a free, online follow-up class system for our Master Class workshop users. This program allows you to continue to learn about landscape post-production tools and workflow after you return home.
Read More2016 Expeditions a Success
2016 was the first year for National Park Photographic Expeditions, and the feedback from our students and National Park Service partners tell us that the Landscape Master Class Workshops were a success. We completed programs in Mojave National Preserve (with California Center for Digital Arts), Capitol Reef National Park, Sequoia National Park, and Lassen Volcanic National Park. From deep canyon heat in Capitol Reef to an early snowfall in Lassen, our photographers experienced numerous,
Read MoreIntimate Landscape
Intimacy is a word that describes relationships. Sometimes it implies a sensual component, or a sense of comforting isolation, or perhaps an undertone of tenderness. Intimacy is applicable to landscape photography as well and we sense it when shooting structured scenes. The Sequoia Shadows Expedition Masterclass is ground zero for intimate landscape images.
Read MoreCatch a Falling Star (With Your Camera)
One of the hottest meteor showers ever will streak across the skies on August 11/12. Prepare yourself with these tips on how to capture the best images.
Read MoreLandscape Master Class Series – Part Three
Learn how to clarify landscape photography concepts by using these 3 simple, but disciplined elements: Compose, Expose, and Prose. That’s it; three simple elements, but composition, or seeing creatively, is critical. Fail at this and the other two elements are moot, so allow me to spend a few words on why photographers do fail in this area.
Landscape Master Class Series – Part Two
It is amazing how many people take landscape pictures, (as opposed to creating them) and when they view them later on their monitor, wonder where the emotional range went that they felt at the time they squeezed the shutter.
Read MoreLandscape Master Class & Photography Workshops Series – Part One
NPPE is new, and we designed the Landscape Master Classes to help photographers access intuitive, reflective ways of working that will lead you to make landscape images that only you can make.
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