I have passed by this scene many times. Eventually I realized that what attracted me most about it was the serene pastoral feeling. So I decided to create a painterly image of a barn and pond in the mountains which would be unlike most photos. You can find a lot of advice for creating images…
Platinum and palladium prints are rare these days. But Alfred Steiglitz and others used this approach extensively in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Platinum became popular with the “pictorialist” photographers. They aimed to enhance the evocative handmade character of their photographs through things like visible brush strokes and color variations. Platinum printing as…
When you first arrive at a scenic location, it is so very tempting to immediately start to snap photos. We certainly do this when we are pressed to capture fleeting light or wildlife. However, the best way to start photographing a landscape is usually not to take pictures. Foremost in my mind when I photograph…
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