
UPCOMING 2012 WORKSHOPS:
5th Annual Springtime and Moonlight in Big Sur and the Monterey Peninsula - March 7-10, 2012 (space still available)
4th Annual Northern Arizona Workshop: Grand Canyon, Antelope Canyon, Horseshoe Bend and Sedona - April 23-27, 2012 (2 spots left)
iPhone Photo Workshop in Carmel and the Big Sur Coast - May 4-6, 2012 (limited to first 50 signups)
3rd Annual Kauai Workshop - Garden Isle and Tropical Paradise - June 22-26, 2012 (6 spots left)
4th Annual Summer Big Sur Workshop - Mystical Fog and Colorful Headlands - August 21-24, 2012 (space available)
1st Annual Fall in the Grand Tetons and Yellowstone National Park - Fall Color, Mountain Grandeur, and Volcanic Forces - Deluxe Photo Workshop - September 24-28, 2012 (Workshop Sold Out)
4th Annual Arches/Canyonlands Photo Workshop - Moon Over Red Rock, Arches, and Canyons - October 27-31 2012 (space available).
2nd Annual Bryce/Zion Photo Workshop - Bryce Canyon Hoodoos and Zion Fall Color - November 1-5, 2012 (space available).
New tutorial video on my website: HDR The Old-Fashioned Way With Don Smith
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NOTE: Join Scott Schilling, Mike Hall and me this May 4-6 in beautiful Carmel, Ca., for our iPhone Photo Workshop in Carmel and the Big Sur Coast. We will demonstrate our favorite camera and processing apps, teach you the power of layers and masks for blending and combining images, and give you tools to improve your visual skills. Mike will show you creative and practical ways to improve your portrait and group images. We will also photograph along the incredible Big Sur coast!
As a landscape photographer and workshop instructor I hear it all the time, what camera should I be using? What lenses should I buy? What software do I need? All legitimate questions. I will usually give my opinion but always with the caveat, cameras do not create images, people do!
Granted, cameras and lenses do help to to create what one is hopefully seeing in their mind, but that's it. The feel of an image must be there in the first place and it better be felt by the photographer or the image simply won't succeed. The last time I checked, a camera doesn't have a brain (though some may argue that its processor is smarter than most people). Moreover, a camera does not have a heart, emotions, love, imagination, creativity, energy, excitement, awareness, etc. It cannot see light creatively. It cannot see connections between lines, shapes, form, patterns, etc. In reality, a camera is really pretty dumb. It just records what you point it at, and most times, does a lousy job of seeing the way you see...
To read more of my latest blog post, please read Cameras Don't Create Images, People Do!
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