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Challenge yourself to use your aperture settings to create a portfolio of imaginative and expressive nature photography.

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Instant access to streaming video files for 1 YEAR.
10 teaching videos for photographers who want to learn about getting creative with aperture settings.
More than 60 minutes of video content – in-depth explanations, examples, workflow, and case studies.
Workshop-style lessons taught on-location by pros.
Case Studies: Aperture-bracketing at Folaldafoss, getting a clean background for fishing puffins, creating a sense of location when shooting wild flowers, and more!

What You’ll Learn

Discover how professionals use aperture to capture original, imaginative, and expressive photos.
Learn to overcome challenges in nature photography by getting creative with your aperture setting.
Find out how aperture settings and composition can be used to create a smooth minimalist background for wildlife photography.
Explore aperture-bracketing techniques to preserve flow lines in nature photography.
How to create an artistic glow around your subject using Lensbaby Velvet lenses.
Get creative with our straight-forward, non-technical lessons.

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Jay was very clear and to the point in In Sharp Focus Webinar. I learned a lot from him today and come to realize how much I don’t know.

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I thoroughly enjoyed the video courses by Varina and Jay Patel. Their clear presentation style and real life examples of their teaching enabled me to rapidly understand and put into practice what they were teaching. Their style is quite personal as if you were on site with them. Excellent photography in the examples supports the learning experience. Histograms were always a bit of a mystery. Seeing how to use them to improve my “in-camera” results will enable me to get the results I see in the field.

Michael Franklin

Ottawa, Canada

I’m successfully using Hyperfocal Distance all the time now!

I spent gobs of time trying to wrap my head around Hyperfocal Distance, but for whatever reason, I just never found the right teachers until I saw your class on the subject. I’ve watched it twice now, and guess what? I’m successfully using Hyperfocal Distance all the time now! It’s literally like you guys opened a curtain and let the sun in.

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Edmond, Oklahoma

Helpful and explained very well

Mastering Exposure Webinar content was helpful and explained very well.

Dan

Madison,Wisconsin

Easy to follow and replicate for your students

Once again, a wonderful course (Getting it Right in Camera) that you have created here, in stunning locations, and by means of your intuitive style of teaching all the concepts and techniques can be properly digested. The case studies provide invaluable insights in how you work your cameras and the thought processes behind creating those wonderful images – easy to follow and replicate for your students.

Frank Weitzer

Germany

Is this Creative Photography Tutorial for me?

This tutorial is for you if:

You have some knowledge of exposure, focus, and bracketing.
You want to learn to be creative with your camera's aperture setting for nature photography.
You want to learn how to use aperture-bracketing on your camera to preserve flow lines in your photos.
You want to create minimalist backgrounds using aperture and composition.

This tutorial might not be the right fit if:

You are a beginner landscape photographer. If you don't know how to use your camera in manual mode, you may want to find out more before you start this course.
You want to learn the basics of camera settings, including exposure and focus.
You want in-depth explanations of how and where to focus. In this creative photography tutorial, we assume you know how to use your camera’s focus settings.
You want a cookie-cutter approach to capturing wildlife and nature photography.

About our Creative Photography with Aperture tutorial

Our Creative Photography with Aperture tutorial is packed full of easy-to-follow explanations, rich examples, and in-depth case studies. You will learn how to use selective focus, create dreamy effects in your landscape photos, use multiple apertures, and more... while building an original, imaginative and expressive landscape photography portfolio.

Here are some of the key concepts covered in this creative photography tutorial.