Archive for Jerry Monkman
About Jerry
Known for his conservation photography work in New England's wild places, Jerry Monkman has spent the last 15 years artfully documenting the mountains, forests, and coastlines that define the region. Staying true to his mission of "promoting ecological awareness through creative photography," his images have contributed to raising awareness and funds to protect a diverse collection of wild places, from a small Connecticut trout stream not far from New York City, to New Hampshire's Great Bay, to Maine's Katahdin Lake near Baxter State Park. Jerry is also the author of the new book, The AMC Guide to Outdoor Digital Photography. To see more of Jerry’s work, visit his websites: www.ecophotography.com and www.monkmanphoto.com.
I want to thank all of you have been following my series of outdoor photography videos over the last ten weeks. I’ve enjoyed producing them and I’ve enjoyed even more the photos you have shared with me as you work to improve your photography. I made this last video to get you thinking about how
Over the course of this video series, I’ve mentioned a few filters from time to time and promised to discuss them in more detail in a later video. Well, here it is! In the video, I talk about the three filters I regularly use (and they’re the only filters I use):
1) I
In this week’s video I discuss how to create sharp images, whether you are hand holding your camera or using a tripod. This may not be the most exciting topic, but it is pretty darn important if you ever want to display your images as anything but a low-res Facebook photo or
Last week I talked about varying your aperture to create different effects through depth of field. In a static landscape scene where nothing is moving, you can set your aperture, then use whatever shutter speed gives you a proper exposure (assuming you are using a tripod if your shutter speed is less than around 1/125
Depth of field plays such a large role in the overall look and feel of a photo that I encourage all of my workshop students to quit using program mode and take control of their aperture and depth of field. Letting the camera make this choice seems crazy to me, yet I still see people
This is the fifth in my series of ten photo tip videos, and like the last couple of tips, this one deals with composition, specifically how lens choice effects perspective and in turn how your viewer relates to a photo because of that perspective. I also discuss creating visual depth in a photo and how
Two big problems I see when critiquing photos in my workshops are compositions full of distracting elements and/or a center of interest that lacks impact (if it’s there at all.) Taking the time to simplify a composition, while making choices that give your main subject dominance in the frame will solve both problems. Watch my
Composition is a challenging concept to teach in photography. I believe everyone has an inherent way of looking at the world and translating that vision into art, and teaching my own vision doesn’t always translate. Still there are some basic technical aspects to visual design that can be learned, and I’m putting together a series
Most of us who have been around digital cameras for a while have come to love the histogram, which is basically a bar graph that charts the tonality of a photo. At a rudimentary level, it makes it easy to keep from under- or over-exposing photos. From a more nuanced perspective, it is possible to
I just posted the first photo tip video on my blog as part of my free on-line outdoor photography course. This week’s tip, Maximize the Light, encourages photographers to learn the nuance of using natural light in outdoor photos. It seems like a good place to start – photography means “drawing with light”
