by Osprey Photo Workshops & Tours | Sep 29, 2011 | Nature, Photo Tours, Travel, Wildlife
Composition
Focus attention on your subject. Keep the composition simple. Whereas painting is a positive process of adding things to the frame, photography is a subtractive process, eliminating elements that do not contribute to the overall image.
Move and explore the photo opportunities from different angles & heights. Position the camera to eliminate distractions behind and in front of the subject. But also make sure the subject does not blend into the background and disappear.
To avoid static composition and don’t center the subject unless there is a reason for it. Leave room in frame where the subject is moving or looking. Utilize entire frame, avoiding dead-space.
Consider framing the subject. By partially surrounding it by tree branches, a doorway, or an arch, you can control the viewer’s eye–blocking distractions, filling empty space, and focusing attention on the subject. Lines as created by streams, paths, and railroad tracks can both lead the eye into a frame and establish a sense of depth.
by Osprey Photo Workshops & Tours | Sep 21, 2011 | Nature, Photo Tours, Photo Workshops, Travel, Wildlife
Join a small group of nature photographers (3-7) to visit some of my favorite photo locations in Argentina & Chile. The photo tour includes the following. 1) Coastal Patagonia–Valdés Peninsula, with elephant seals , Southern right whales, rheas, guanacos and the large magellanic penguin colony of Punta Tombo. 2) Mt. Fitzroy plus the Perito Moreno Glacier in Los Glaciares National Park. 3) Torres del Paine National Park in Chile with spectacular landscapes, Andean condors, Austral parakeets, Patagonian fox, and black-chested buzzard-eagles. 4) Iguazú National Park (both the Argentine & Brazilian sides), the location of a spectacular horseshoe shaped waterfalls in the midst of a lush tropical rainforest with toucans, coatis, reddish-bellied parakeets, agoutis, capuchin monkeys, tapir, and more.
by Osprey Photo Workshops & Tours | Jul 24, 2011 | Photo Tours, Photo Workshops, Travel, Wildlife
On 3 August, I will be presenting a evening program on Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge at the Norfolk Botanical Gardens, Norfolk, VA. Hope to see you there. For info contact Norfolk Botanical Gardens at http://www.norfolkbotanicalgarden.org/programs-events/calendar/search-results/events-on/1313121600 or go to my website www.ospreyphoto.com
Competition! Whose got the fish.
Composition
