Working Pictures: The Dramatic Landscape

Go beyond standard landscape compositions

The Dramatic Landscape has been a trademark of Jim Richardson’s photography for National Geographic for decades. Always seeking ways to break free from stereotypical landscape photography, Jim has mastered ways to create dramatic landscapes that tell compelling stories. (And he’s probably had more gatefolds in National Geographic than any other photographer.) This workshop will teach ways to find the underlying story in the landscape and ways of going beyond standard landscape compositions. Using a combination of classroom lectures and field assignments, with followup critiques and discussions, Jim will guide students to expand their concepts of landscape photography. And he’ll suggest ways expand your aesthetic range by borrowing from other art forms and music — as was well as honing more work-a-day photographic techniques that are staples of landscape photography.