Bringing Out the Elements in Your Photos

Steve sets up on a high desert mesa and assesses the natural lighting that creates the drama. “The challenge,” Steve explains, “is the changing light.” In composing an image, Steve thinks of “nature’s salad bowl”—all the ingredients nature puts into the visual bowl, such as rocks, plants, hills, clouds, sky, and textures and colors. To balance the light, he shows you how to use a graduated neutral density filter and how to bracket with multiple exposures.

Join pro shooter Steve Kossack on the desert mesa for landscape photography tips to help you create your own nature’s salad bowl.

MORE IN THIS COURSE:

• Telling a Story with Pictures—Course Preview
• Taking a Warm-Up Shot
• Bringing Out the Elements in Your Photos
• Capturing a Desert Photography Scene
• How to Use a Tilt-Shift Lens
• Photographing a Desert Wave
• Photographing a Geographic Story
• Capturing an Iconic Image in Outdoor Photography
• The Backwards Image in Landscape Photography
• The Flying Angel
• The Flying Angel Reversed
• The Exit
• Capturing Canyon Debris Inside an Arizona Canyon
• Composition for Abstract Photographs