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In the newest video from our friends at Advancing Your Photography, Marc Silber chatted with award-winning photographer Joe McNally. Over the course of his prolific career, McNally has captured cover stories and features for publications such as National Geographic, LIFE and Sports Illustrated and worked with many large...
A great photo is often one which evokes emotion from the viewer. It can transport to you a place in the case of an awesome landscape photo, or perhaps make you feel a certain way. Creating this ever-important emotional connection is one of the most challenging aspects of photography. If you have all the technical...
Photographer and educator Marc Silber has produced three videos recently all centered around lighting. He regularly sits down with talented photographers to get tips straight from the pros, which is what he has done with the trio of videos below. Let's take a look and see what we can learn!
The first video is with...
Marc Silber of Advancing your Photography met up with his friend and professional photographer Bob Holmes. Holmes has worked with Advancing your Photography before and always shares great photography tips. The latest video focuses on general tips for better photography.
Holmes' first two tips are focused on lines...
With the help of six professional photographers, Marc Silber of Advancing Your Photography shares over a dozen composition tips with us in the video below.
Joe McNally kicks off the video by telling us that generally the rule of thirds is a pretty good guideline. With that said, he continues to suggest that you ought...
Longtime professional photographer Bob Holmes has been a guest of Marc Silber's on numerous occasions. Holmes' latest visit with Silber is focused on learning to see light. Holmes remarks early on in the video below that much of what he has learned about light - and seeing in general - has come from his interest in...
We have covered Marc Silber’s videos on numerous occasions, including his interview with Ansel Adams’ son, Michael, and this interview with Chris Burkard.
Marc has interviewed many other professional photographers and has compiled their lessons learned over thousands of hours of interviews along with his own expertise...
Photographer and educator Huntington Witherill has produced a very wide range of photographic work over the course of his career, including landscape photography. In the video below, he goes shooting with Marc Silber and shares how he is processing the scene and what he needs to do to capture the shot he is visualizing.
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If you enjoyed taking a trip back in time with previously unreleased footage of Ansel Adams last week, then you will really love the recently completed video tour of the late legend's darkroom.
Ansel's son, Michael, recently gave Marc Silber an in-depth look at the darkroom and provided some nice background information...
Ansel Adams' "Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico" is one of his most well-known photographs with Adams making over 1,300 prints of it during his career. A print was auctioned by Sotheby's in 2006 for over $600,000.
Part of what makes the photo particularly interesting is how it was created. Adams, his son Michael and...
Adventure photographer Chris Burkard has a stunning portfolio of work that covers a wide range of personal and commercial projects. Having taken one of his online workshops through Creative Live, I also know that he is willing to share plenty of tips and tricks for helping other photographers improve their own work. He...
Photographer Huntington Witherill studied with Ansel Adams and has had a distinguished career spanning over 45 years. Recently, he met with Marc Silber to discuss composition. For Witherill, a good composition is one that shows the scene not only for what it is, but also as something else. He recalls a Minor White...