The Essentials of Digital Landscape Photography
Part 1: Field Techniques
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| Instructor - Darwin Wiggett |
This course is conducted in Virtual Classroom 3
Join Darwin Wiggett in this detailed course on essential field techniques for digital landscape photography. Learn the basics and advanced techniques used by pros in the field to make images with impact. Darwin will discuss essential gear that makes nature photography more fun and efficient. What gear do you really need? Also Darwin will discuss the essentials of setting up your camera to make the best images possible. Do you know everything you need to know about color space, white balance, and quality settings to get the most out of your camera? One of the most critical aspects of photography is proper exposure, do you know how to make the most of your histogram, and how to get exposures that will sing? Darwin will teach you how to pick the right camera aperture every time and shutter speed for creative expression. These choices are critical for personal expression. Finally, Darwin will show you how to capture the light on the land with his proven essential photographic techniques for controlling contrast and light. Learn how to use filters, fill flash, and supplemental lighting to paint light like a painter controls pigment.
Start Dates (specify date on check-out screen):
| Course Fee - $275.00* NPN members, $295.00 non-members. |
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* Members of the Nature Photographers Network receive a $20.00 rebate for a net course fee of $275.00.
Questions about this course? Contact Darwin Wiggett
The Essentials of Digital Landscape Photography
Part 1: Field Techniques
Week 1 - Equipment Essentials
- What to look for in a camera, lenses, tripods, bags and accessories to get the most useful kit for outdoor photography. What gear do you need to make images that will sell in magazines, to stock agencies and for fine art printing? Darwin will guide you through the essential requirements.
- The essential camera settings for pro-level digital landscape work (color space, white balance, RAW vs. JPEG and other important considerations).
Week 2 – Expose Right!
Most photographers do not understand how to properly expose a digital file. If you use your LCD to judge exposure, then you are not getting the most out of your expensive digital camera. To get the cleanest, noise free files possible, proper exposure is critical. Darwin will discuss why you should not trust your camera LCD but learn how to use your histogram to judge exposure.
Week 3 – How to Pick the Right Aperture Every Time!
Aperture choice is the most important camera control for the landscape photographer. Learn how to use aperture creatively and how to always know what aperture to use in any situation. Learn how to judge depth-of-field accurately and which apertures give the best quality images.
Week 4 – How to Pick the Right Shutter Speed Every Time!
Whenever there is movement of your subject, then shutter speed is an important consideration in making images. Learn to pick the right shutter speed every time for creative expression. Also learn how to make painterly images with long exposures – painting with time.
Week 5 - Capturing the Light: Essential Photographic Techniques - Part 1
Learn how the camera sees contrast differently than the human eye and how you can work with or overcome this technological limitation to create images that replicate human vision or go beyond human vision. In this lesson Darwin discusses working with and manipulating camera contrast. Specialized techniques like fill flash, light painting, and ‘painting with light’ are discussed as well.
Week 6 – Capturing the Light: Essential Photographic Techniques – Part 2
In this lesson Darwin discusses how to control camera contrast by reducing the brightness of the highlights using diffusion, and filtration. Darwin will show why polarizers and grad filters still have an important place in digital photography to get you results in-camera that rival what can be done in software.
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