Summit Alumni Highlight -- Aerial Photography With Chris Boyer At The Summit Workshops, something we pride ourselves in is our expansive body of alumni. We call them The Summit Family,...
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Summit Alumni Highlight -- An Interview with Jennifer Leigh Warner Since the Photography at the Summit Nature Workshop began in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, hundreds of students have attended...
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Creating an Engaging Portrait: An Interview with Wall Street Journal Magazine Director of Photography Jennifer Pastore Portrait of Exum Guide Dan Corn by Jonathan Finch, Adventure 2014 The...
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If you’ve purchased a digital camera in the last decade than you are very familiar with the megapixel-count, and how much of a selling-point it has become. But are megapixels…
ISO, or International Standards Organization, affects the amount of light that hits the image sensor in the camera. In the film days, ISO used to be a measure of the film…
Image stabilization has been around for quite a while, but it’s only the newer “optical image stabilization,” or, OIS, that adjusts for shakiness caused by camera movement. OIS reacts to…
Have you ever wondered why an old television or computer monitor has trouble displaying high definition footage, even if that monitor has enough pixels to correctly display it? Well in a…
Alongside aperture and ISO, shutter speed is one of the three key factors that determines how your photographs will look. While many things in photography can be confusing and counter-intuitive,…
Whether we’re sending a cell-phone photo to a friend or we’re converting our RAW files, we have all used JPEG files before. But what is a JPEG file actually good…
Aperture is one of the most important technical aspects of photography, and being able to understand at least the basics of it will provide a photographer with a working knowledge…
Let’s be honest, you don’t really know how the image sensor in your camera works – but that’s okay because most people don’t! Not to fear, the great people over at…
Have you ever wondered how much more light an f/1.4 aperture lets in than an f/2.8 aperture? Well the answer might surprise you, because while f/1.4 might seem to be half the…
The photography industry continues to evolve and adapt to todays technologies and societal norms, but how does that affect the aspiring professional photographer? On one hand, photography equipment and resources…
Wedding and engagement photographers rejoice! Summit Online’s new course is meant just for you! Join instructor Tallie Johnson as she takes you through the entire process of photographing an engaged…
Via Allen Murabayashi from Photoshelter. A lot of attendants to our workshops arrive ready and excited for all of the events, but nervous for the image critiques. Any photographer would be nervous…
Few people, if any, have had the impact on sports photography and photographing the game of basketball that Rich Clarkson has had. On Thur, September 10, Rich was enshrined…
If you photograph portraits and want help improving both your photos and your editing process, than you absolutely need to view these courses. Jam-packed with technical information, you’ll learn how…
Course Overview In this course, Allen Murabayashi, takes you on a journey into the digital world that now drives the creative industry in many ways. As a Co-Founder of the…
Every time a new version of Lightroom comes out the first thing I look for are features that make the Develop module better, or easier to use. The ones I…
Creating a photography portfolio can be a daunting experience. As a rule, photographers have basic or no knowledge of design at all. Moreover, creating a site with the pictures in…
SummitOnline.co Presents: NatGeo Research with Jim Richardson. Course Overview In this lesson, well-known National Geographic photographer, Jim Richardson, takes you where very few have ever been before — behind…
This year we have brought some alumni back to the fold of the workshops to assist the faculty and staff throughout the week as a chance to come back and…
Landscape photography is typically thought of as images of serene mountain ranges and seascapes, but what are photographers supposed to do when these locations are unavailable or they are seeking…
William Albert Allard, National Geographic photographer and long-time Summit faculty, gives us insight into what goes into a photograph and how important workshops like the Summit are to the advancement…
We’re excited to partner with Corey Rich, co-founder of our Adventure Photography Workshop, and newly-minted Nikon Ambassador, on his new creativeLIVE course Still and Motion: Storytelling on Location, broadcast free online August 26-28th! During the…
Read below on a very thought provoking excerpt written by Corey Rich, a mainstay of our Multimedia Workshop and Adventure Workshop. He dissects one of his images as it was…
For more than 20 years, Tom Mangelsen has been teaching at the Photography at the Summit in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. As a resident of the town, he is able to…
We sat down with The New York Times Sports Picture Editor and Sports Workshop Faculty regular, Brad Smith, to talk about how to edit your photos in an efficient workflow…
We sat down with former Sports Illustrated photographer and current COO of US Presswire, Bob Rosato, on techniques for high school or amateur photographers on shooting a football game.
For the many years I’ve been employing photographers and picture editors, I have always used internships to “discover” developing talent — in addition to providing some valuable training for early-career…
In a notable career shooting primarily for Life and Sports Illustrated, Bill Eppridge has covered wars, political campaigns, heroin addiction, the arrival of the Beatles in the United States, the…
Matt Slaby attended the Summit workshop shortly after receiving his law degree — and decided photography was more his calling. His latest spread appears in the December 5 issue of…
There’s not many things better than an active Colorado summer. And if you haven’t been a part of it, the Sports Photography Workshop is a great way to get you…
Every summer at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, the Sports Photography Workshop takes over for one week of exciting field training, classroom tutorials, networking, and shooting dozens of…
Making that move to using remote cameras at sporting events (or other events) can be quite daunting. But as AP Photographer, Mark Terrill, says, using remote cameras and multiple cameras…
Jamie Schwaberow, Director of NCAA Photos, is a 1996 journalism graduate from Bowling Green State University. He joined Rich Clarkson and Associates in 1999 where he began photographing NCAA national…
John Moore discusses opportunities for young photographers entering the profession today and the improved ability to research large projects and story ideas. He mentions the use of technology to aid…
Everyone is looking to save money as this year moves forward with a stimulus emphasis. President Obama promises investments not only to get the economy going in the short term,…
David Burnett has a unique sense of place, importance — and humor. Thus, he has crafted a video from his trip to the olympics in Beijing that is particularly enjoyable….
National Geographic director of photography David Griffin gives an impassioned talk on the power of photography to connect with the viewer and highlights some of the magazines greatest photographers and memorable recent work….
Tom Mangelsen, Jack Dykinga and Patricio Robles Gil were key team members in April of a RAVE project (Rapid Assessment Visual Expedition) documenting one of the last remaining cloud forrests…
Faculty alum David Schloss has started The Aperture Users Professional Network, an international user association for photographers, designers and other creatives who use Apple hardware and software to develop their…
