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Five essential tips for powerful travel photography! With @hipster / “Capturing a real sense of place is always my goal when I shoot. If I had to give tips for composing and creating powerful travel shots, they’d be: 1) It’s easy to get caught up trying to capture everything at once when you’re somewhere new, but some of my favorite shots have come from just slowing down and watching how the light hits, how people move through the space, or what details tell the story best. Let the scene come to you. 2) I love finding ways to build depth in a photo, whether through foreground elements, leading lines, or interesting textures. It helps create the feeling of being pulled into the image, like you’re standing there. 3) I treat every photo like it could be an art piece. So, I think about mood, composition, and the story I’m trying to tell. Even if it’s spontaneous, there’s still intention behind how I frame it. 4) Color is a huge part of how I tell stories through my photos. I always want the colors in my images to pop in a way that feels intentional and full of life, so I think a lot about color theory when I edit. In addition, I follow a specific workflow every time I edit to keep my style consistent. I start with global color calibration in Lightroom to set the overall tone, then move into curves to dial in contrast and mood. After that, I fine-tune exposure, white balance, and other basics—but I always leave color grading and masking for the end. That’s where I shape the image and bring out the feeling I want it to have. 5) Lastly, don’t be afraid to experiment. My style has evolved a ton, and it continues to shift as I grow and change. Eventually, you’ll land on something that feels true to you. And even then, permit yourself to keep evolving.” You can read the original article with @hipster by visiting the link in our bio!
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This is a wonderful set, sharp & awesome. Were these shot early morning? The last line of the first tip “let the scene come to you,” stood out most to me, it’s like taking a moment to take it all in before you hit that shutter button. This is another amazing set of tips from @hipster
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Ansel Adams Photographer, Artist & Activist
*Happy Birthday to Ansel’s ‘Monolith’!* 🏞️ “Born” on this day, April 10, 1927. Andrea Stillman’s biography “Looking at Ansel Adams” includes a wonderful chapter all about this storied photograph: “In 1992 I was in Ansel’s workroom selecting images for a prospective book of his photographs when Virginia appeared and announced that she had found a stash of home movies from the late 1920s and 1930S. With anticipation we rented a movie projector to screen them. Miraculously, one reel included footage of the trek to the Diving Board. It showed Ansel in his favorite plus fours, lugging his forty-pound pack, with a rakish fedora hat and the Keds high-top basketball shoes he favored for hiking. “The climbers struggled up…in deep snow, and when they reached the Diving Board they pulled each other up with a ludicrously thin rope. Virginia fearlessly inched out onto the sharply angled granite spur, and when she reached the tip she stood up and blithely waved. It seems appropriate that Ansel presented the very first print of ‘Monolith’ to Virginia. “Ansel was twenty-five years old when he made ‘Monolith.’ At age eighty he was able to recall the experience of making the negative, every detail as clear as it more than a half century had not elapsed. He photographed Half Dome hundreds of times, and there are many different interpretations that include moons, clouds, snow, flowers, leaves, trees, even deer and people. In 1978, during one of his last annual Yosemite workshops, he and his photographic assistant, John Sexton, contemplated Half Dome together and talked about the taking of ‘Monolith’ in 1927. According to John, Ansel laughingly confided, ‘Maybe I should just have stopped then.’” Text, film footage and Ansel Adams images are copyright ©️The Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust. All rights reserved. John Sexton’s photograph courtesy of @johnsextonphoto. All rights reserved.