The moment I became a photographer

This is a re-post from BPSOP instructor Brit Hammer’s blog How it all started In 2014 my filmmaker husband, Armand Dijcks, and I teamed up with Athena Carey to film a fine art landscape photography tutorial. She’s a brilliant photographer and instructor, and...
White background in the Flora photography

White background in the Flora photography

We love sharing the best work of our PHOTOGRAPHING FLORA students. In this class we talk a lot about the importance of the background and how a bad background can steal the thunder of your main subject in the photo! And while we definitely encourage our students to...

Non Human Gesture

I talk to my online classes with the BPSOP, and in my “Stretching Your Frame of Mind” workshops I conduct throughout the world about the importance of a gesture in your imagery; it’s one of the ways to create Visual Tension. The actual definition of a gesture is “a...

The beauty of simplicity

What makes an image quiet? In Finding Beauty we approach creating quiet, minimalist images from different directions. One of the ways is contrast. The crux of creating a quiet image is to reduce the contrast. That contrast can take many forms, including color,...

Standing the Test of Time

There are many aspects involved in taking a photo that you’ll remember and that will stand the test of time; or perhaps just another background memory clouded by the passing of our daily lives. Since I enjoy the game of golf and I often play (I’m a much better...
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