Bob Liptrap

A strong black-and-white landscape image moves far beyond the picture-postcard pretty to challenge our way of seeing the world. A solid understanding of exposure metering is key to creating the image you imagine, be it misty woods at dawn, stormy skies, fast flowing streams or snowy fields. Through a series of lectures and examples, you will learn the tips and tricks of effective exposure, as well as learning about filters that can enhance the skies, foliage, water and other elements of landscape.

Deepening your understanding of compositional principals will allow you to use the pieces of the landscape as strong, graphic elements, creating images that are dynamic and alive, still and contemplative, always visually intriguing.

Two out-of-class field trips to local wild spaces are included in the course, showing us that fantastic landscape opportunities are as close as your backyard. Spending time with your camera in the outdoors teaches the photographer to look at nature with new eyes and to visually interpret what he or she sees. The images challenge us, the viewers, to share in that vision.

A basic understanding of your camera in manual mode is recommended for this course.