Evening Storm Light in Death Valley
The publisher of "Photographing California Vol. 2 - South" has transferred the remaing inventory to me. While supply lasts, you can still buy my book on our Web site: www.jeffsullivanphotography.com/photographing-california-...
It makes a greeat Christmas gift idea for photographers!
We're expanding our "winter light" photography workshop series in 2023-2024 to include a session with extra emphasis on black and white: January 10-15, 2024. Trying to envision your end result with color converted into grayscale tones encourages careful consideration of subject, leading lines, composition, as well as creating a master file to work from with maximum bit depth. Then the conversion to black and white should offer a wide range of results. Additional dodge and burn operations can improve your gentle direction fo the viewers' gaze, and tthier interpretation of your intention (which elements in the composition are important).
After years of color photography, spending some time with black and white photography can be like a return to Photograp[hy 101 basics in composition and technique, and it can inform and improve your color photography in the process.
Our original winter light session in December will be slightly repurposed to focus on this year's stunning Geminid meteor shower in 2023, which will offer over 11 hours of dark skies, for rmaximum success capturing the year's most active meteor shower. So we'll spend the first three days and nights on landscape photography and practicing techniques for capturing Geminid meteors, then we'll go camp somewhere on the last two peak meteor shower nights, so we can cpature as many meteors as possible and assemble composites.
We have at least four trips to Death Valley planned for this winter/spring. After winter light and Geminid meteors in December, and winter light in January with extra focus on black and white photogrpahyt hen as the current El Nino weather pattern promises to deliver above average precipitation to Southern California (and wildflowers?), we have two spring trips in March. The first Spring in Death Valley is a lodging-based trip in the main Valley with all the iconic sites, the second session is right after that, focusing on more remote and rugged places that are best reached via camping-based trips and high clearance 4WD vehicles. Both March sessions offer the opportunity to pursue Milky Way photography beforee dawn. They could be taken back-to-back!
Evening Storm Light in Death Valley
The publisher of "Photographing California Vol. 2 - South" has transferred the remaing inventory to me. While supply lasts, you can still buy my book on our Web site: www.jeffsullivanphotography.com/photographing-california-...
It makes a greeat Christmas gift idea for photographers!
We're expanding our "winter light" photography workshop series in 2023-2024 to include a session with extra emphasis on black and white: January 10-15, 2024. Trying to envision your end result with color converted into grayscale tones encourages careful consideration of subject, leading lines, composition, as well as creating a master file to work from with maximum bit depth. Then the conversion to black and white should offer a wide range of results. Additional dodge and burn operations can improve your gentle direction fo the viewers' gaze, and tthier interpretation of your intention (which elements in the composition are important).
After years of color photography, spending some time with black and white photography can be like a return to Photograp[hy 101 basics in composition and technique, and it can inform and improve your color photography in the process.
Our original winter light session in December will be slightly repurposed to focus on this year's stunning Geminid meteor shower in 2023, which will offer over 11 hours of dark skies, for rmaximum success capturing the year's most active meteor shower. So we'll spend the first three days and nights on landscape photography and practicing techniques for capturing Geminid meteors, then we'll go camp somewhere on the last two peak meteor shower nights, so we can cpature as many meteors as possible and assemble composites.
We have at least four trips to Death Valley planned for this winter/spring. After winter light and Geminid meteors in December, and winter light in January with extra focus on black and white photogrpahyt hen as the current El Nino weather pattern promises to deliver above average precipitation to Southern California (and wildflowers?), we have two spring trips in March. The first Spring in Death Valley is a lodging-based trip in the main Valley with all the iconic sites, the second session is right after that, focusing on more remote and rugged places that are best reached via camping-based trips and high clearance 4WD vehicles. Both March sessions offer the opportunity to pursue Milky Way photography beforee dawn. They could be taken back-to-back!