Adding depth and interest to your bird photographs through compositing multiple captures

Look at nearly any painting of a bird. The bird will be part of an incredible landscape adding visual interest, and telling the larger story of where the bird is found.  Look at nearly any photograph of a bird. Chances are the bird is nearly filling the frame, and the rest of the photograph is out of focus, or at most includes a branch or a few grasses — pretty boring. This workshop will teach you how to plan multiple captures and use compositing techniques, creating photographs that rival the compositions, lighting, and story-telling qualities of paintings, with the added impact of photographic reality.

In the workshop we will go out to photograph every morning, spending the rest of the day critiquing and learning to enhance and create your image compositions in PhotoShop.

CRAIG BLACKLOCK is one of the Midwest’s most distinguished fine art landscape photographers. Blacklock has taught photography workshops since 1982, including many focusing on the nude in the landscape. His nudes in the landscape are part of many prestigious private and public collections, including the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Blacklock has published 18 books, most of them self-published. He has won numerous national and international book awards, including six gold and one silver medal awards for his most recent book, ST. CROIX & NAMEKAGON RIVERS — The Enduring Gift, with an introduction by Vice President Walter F. Mondale. https://stcroixphotography.com/

His book, A Voice Within—The Lake Superior Nudes, won Best Photography Book from over 1300 publishers from around the world in the Independent Publishers Awards.