Travel to the desert wilderness of Death Valley National Park with landscape photographer Ben Long to learn the unique considerations involved in shooting a desert environment.
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction
- Intro to desert landscape photography
- Understanding where this course will take us
- Looking at the light on day one
- Getting a shot that includes the road
- Why shoot in places you've shot before?
- Shooting in the old mining town of Ballarat
- Working a shot with an old truck as a subject
- Composing a shot to show texture in Devil's Golf Course
- Racing the light to get the last shot of the day
- Exploring the plan for day two
- Taking a shot with haze and working it in post
- Shooting the sand dunes in changing light
- Wrapping up the sand dune shots
- Planning out the third day
- Exploring the light in the dry lake bed
- Working the light in the dry lake bed
- What to do when the good light is gone
- Exploring the vistas for a more dramatic shot
- Composing the vista shot
- Evaluating the vista shot
- Understanding the pace of a place
- Wrapping up the trip
Taught by
Ben Long
