Pierre Steenberg

Life is harsh, show it

March 08, 2020 • Leave a Comment

Life is harsh. Life happens and it is not always kind. In the animal world, it is often eat or be eaten. When you witness a kill I always hear people rooting for the hunted and expressing their sadness at what just happened. Yet, the hunter also has to eat and feed it's young. When the hunted gets aways I rarely hear people empathize with the hungr...

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Wildlife Moments 2

March 01, 2020 • Leave a Comment

Continuing on with last week's topic, always try to add something special to wildlife photography. Capture special little moments. Ideas about what helps to provide special moments are: Capturing action, such as animals fighting Animal interaction, like a mother looking at her baby or birds intertwining their necks Typical animal behavior th...

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Wildlife Moments

February 23, 2020 • Leave a Comment

Photography is all about capturing a moment in time that can have someone look at it for a long time. Wildlife photography is no different, in fact, wildlife photography is even more about capturing that right moment. What makes great wildlife photographs great is often determined by whether a special moment was captured or not. In wildlife photogr...

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Wildlife and patience

February 16, 2020 • Leave a Comment

Wildlife photography is really difficult! Yes, anybody can take a nice-looking image of a static animal just looking at you. To get a great wildlife image is what is really hard. It takes boatloads full of patience, not the sit and wait kind of patience where you can relax and look around while you wait for the sun to get to a certain position. No,...

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Wait

February 09, 2020 • Leave a Comment

Everyone left. Why would they stay? After all the sky is dreary. It is cold. Whatever poor light there was is gone and it is not coming back, right? Most of the time that is right, but when you are wrong you might miss something nice. For when special light appears in a dreary scene it makes for great photography. Let's look at an example: The "sp...

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Featuring iconic elements as secondary interest

February 02, 2020 • Leave a Comment

We have all seen great photography featuring iconic elements. The iconic elements are often the main subject of the image. When we go to Yosemite National Park, for example, we prominently feature El Capital or Half Dome as the main subject. They are so iconic and photogenic that it is hard to withstand the temptation to shoot them in any other way...

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Telephoto Lens Landscapes

January 26, 2020 • Leave a Comment

Whenever people think of landscape photography they almost always tend to think about using wide to super wide-angle lenses. The most common question we get asked multiple times during each of our workshops is: "what lens should I bring?" As Don Smith would answer: "the real question you are probably asking is which lens/es you can leave." We don't...

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Mirror elements

January 19, 2020 • Leave a Comment

Nature seems rather random in terms of where what grows, flows, or is placed from a compositional perspective. So when we find a scene that seems to look a bit more orderly we are amazed and we just want to photograph it. Sometimes we need to create that order. Order can be created by lining things up, by duplicating elements, by bringing out the s...

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Pay attention to detail

January 12, 2020 • Leave a Comment

Nature does not place rocks or plant trees where we want them. One challenging thing about photography is that there is always some problem. You can't quite get to where you need to stand because of a cliff or something else preventing you. That bright clouds is just in the wrong spot, whatever. While we cannot move the objects in our compositions...

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Natural Frames

January 05, 2020 • Leave a Comment

Yes, I have written about using frames compositionally before. Today I am going to be looking at a large frame (not just around the edges). Natural frames are things like trees, arches, cliffs, and the like that are used to frame what is beyond them. They help to make an image look polished, rounded off. They steer the viewer's attention into the i...

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