Expressive Nature Photography: Design, Composition, and Color in Outdoor Imagery

Brenda Tharp is an award-winning photographer, writer, and teacher specializing in travel, nature, and outdoor photography. She can be found at brendatharp.A short list of her clients includes British Gas, Canon USA, Audubon, Nature Conservance, Outdoor Photography, Travel-Holiday Magazine, The Natural Museum of Chicago, Sierra Club, several inflight magazines, ATT, United Way, and the Red

"Quality training book" according to Frederick Pilot. Brenda Tharp is well known as an enthusiastic teacher and highly skilled nature photographer. I personally attended her workshop near Boston years ago. "Expressive Nature Photography" is a professionally done training book that at a minimum will help you fake it and just maybe you'll make it.. "Wonderful Reference and Teaching Book About Nature Photography and Light" according to Jeffrey N. Fritz. As a professional photographer, I am asked to do all kinds of work ranging from wedding photos to portraits. I am happy for the work. However, my love is with landscape and nature photography. This is the area where operating my camera is the most fun and where my heart resides. I am drawn, therefore, to a well written, well produced book on the subject of landscape and nature photography. This is one such book.Although her book is about nature and landscape photography, Brenda Tharp discusses light a great deal in her book, "Expressive Nature Photography: Design, Composition, and. an expressive, appreciative, indispensible guide to nature photography As someone who lives in a beautiful wooded area in California, with plenty of locales in a days' drive distance as well, and with wildlife flying or wandering past my house most days, I can well appreciate what Ms. Tharp discusses. Indeed, her book is a well-arranged discussion of photographing landscapes, flowers, trees, wildlife animals, skies (clouds and starscapes) -- both in panorama and close-up.The book assumes at least a nodding familiarity with cameras, though she keeps the discussion on four main controls: focal length (i.e., lenses, in mm sizes), aperture (f/stop) and s

. About the AuthorBrenda Tharp is an award-winning photographer, writer, and teacher specializing in travel, nature, and outdoor photography. Getty Images and Danita Delimont represent Brenda’s stock photography. Brenda is the author of three best-selling photography technique books—Creative Nature & Outdoor Photography (two editions) and Extraordinary Everyday Photography. Her images have been featured in numerous magazines and books, and she teaches throughout the United States, including Maine Media Workshops, Santa Fe Photographic Workshops, the Rocky Mountain School of Photography, Point Reyes Field Seminars, and BetterPhoto. Her fine art images are in private collections across the country.

Photographer and teacher Brenda Tharp marries photography craft with artistic vision to help intermediate photographers translate what they see into a personal impression of a subject in nature. Using single images, along with before-and-after and with-or-without examples, Expressive Nature Photography teaches how to make exposures that are creative, not necessarily correct. Photographers will develop a sense of when to break the "rules" of composition, how to use elements to frame subjects, what to include and exclude in the frame, how to create the feeling of depth and dimension in a scene, and how to push the boundaries of composition to make memorable nature images that capture and convey fresh viewpoints. High-tech cameras can help create a good exposure and focused image, but they can't replace the artist's eye for composition, visual depth, and design, nor their instinct for knowing when to click the shutter. A chapter on the art of visual flow discusses how to create compositions that direct the viewer's eye through the frame for maximum impact. Readers will learn how to “see in the d