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2018: A Year in Review at Visual Wilderness

December 26, 2018/in Blog/by Jay Patel

We wanted to take some time to look at our 4th year of operations for Visual Wilderness. In many ways, this has been a defining year and one marked with change in the direction of our business. Here are some of the highlights from 2018…

Awesome Blog Posts

Our contributing photographers continued to create some fantastic blog posts. Below are some of the most popular ones from 2018 (in no particular order).

  • Photostacking for Night Photography Example

    Photo Stacking for Night Photography – By Joshua Snow

  • 6 Ridiculously Simple Tricks for Sunrise Photography – By Chrissy Donadi

  • 4 Post-Processing Mistakes Made by Beginners – By Anne McKinnell

  • A Beginners Guide to Organizing your Photos - By Varina Patel

    A Beginners Guide to Organizing your Photos – By Varina Patel

  • Understanding White Balance in Photography – By Lace Andersen

  • How to Set White Balance for Wildlife Photography – By Rahul Sachdev

Newsletter and Web App Notifications

We have over 42,000 subscribers for our InFocus newsletter and over 7,000 subscribers get educational content via notifications from Visual Wilderness on their mobile and desktop devices. Not surprisingly, both of these free resources have superb engagement and a worldwide audience. Here is what some of the readers have to say…

Elizabeth Dizon

This is great! Been wanting to understand and apply Hyperfocal Distance in my photography.

Elizabeth Dizon
Manila, Philippines

Best photography webinar I’ve every taken

Mastering Exposure Webinar was the best photography webinar I’ve every taken. I’ve taken lots of seminars where they talked about their pictures but in this one, they showed a video of how they determined their settings while in the field. Very helpful.

Diane Donnelly
Annapolis, Maryland, USA

In Sharp Focus Webinar was informative

In Sharp Focus Webinar was informative and gave me a better understanding and appreciation of some sharpening techniques available in software I use, but that I haven’t utilized before.

Paul
Norman, Oklahoma

Anton Averin

Your head is blown away by the amount of things you finally start to understand.

Anton Averin

H.C.”Tex” Schneider

I appreciate your combined abilities to teach me at my level on the photography learning curve.

H.C.”Tex” Schneider
Santa Ana, California

Kas Stone

Just finished your Hyperfocal Distance Tutorial and I must commend you on giving a crystal-clear explanation of this tricky subject, and for suggesting a workflow that makes good sense. Many thanks!

Kas Stone
Nova Scotia, Canada

Thorge Berger

Ian Plant is not only a stunning landscape photographer but he also is a fantastic teacher who can perfectly explain in a structured and entertaining way. He shares his impressive work without showing off. It was truly inspiring! Thank you!

Thorge Berger
Germany

Joe Hudspeth

All-in-all, The Essential Filters Course along with the others in this series, are the most informative and easy to learn instruction I have taken. I am a complete fan of Jay and Varina and love their instructions.

Joe Hudspeth
Prineville, Oregon

Vikram Jayaraman

Having Jay and Varina as instructors opens up a totally new perspective to Landscape photography.

Vikram Jayaraman
San Jose, California

Ken Kurzweil

I advanced by leaps and bounds in both my photography skills and Photoshop skills. Varina and Jay are great teachers!

Ken Kurzweil

VW Streaming Service

This was the first full year of a streaming service offering for our customers. We have an excellent subscriber retention rate and continue to provide new content throughout the year. In addition, we introduced more than eight new nature photography video tutorials that were available for free for streaming subscribers. Here are the last three video courses...

  • Masking in Lightroom

    $39.95
    Add to cart Show Details
  • Vibrant Colors in Nature Photography

    $39.95
    Add to cart Show Details
  • Color Management Tutorial Cover

    True Colors with Color Management Tutorial

    $39.95
    Add to cart Show Details

New Nature Photography Video Tutorials

In 2018, we expanded our video tutorial offering by becoming a multi-vendor marketplace for nature photographers. We now offer video courses from several contributing photographers on all aspects of landscape photography. Here are some of the most popular video courses from this past year...

  • Blending with Light

    $39.95
    Add to cart Show Details
  • Illuminated Course

    $39.95
    Add to cart Show Details

Our latest video courses were based on fine-tuning your start-to-finish workflow for some of the most important aspects of photography. For example, we created Illuminated & Working with Light which focuses on giving landscape photographers a complete workflow for capturing and processing different types of light.

These video courses, with a razor-sharp focus on different aspects of photography, were our best sellers in 2018.

What is Coming in 2019?

In the first half of 2019, Visual Wilderness celebrates its 5th birthday. Throughout this coming year, we plan to create more in-depth video courses on several aspects of landscape photography. In addition, producing more on-location video courses that feature workshop-style lessons is also part of our 2019 plan.

We also have a few secret projects in works. Psst... keep this last one to yourself.

Happy Holidays from Visual Wilderness Team!!

About Author Jay Patel

I could startoff like this – “Seeds of Jay Patel’s appreciation for beautiful places were planted early in his childhood….” but it would get boring really fast. I will just sum it up and say that I am a Landscape and Wilderness Photographer who loves to capture dramatic light. My photographs have been published in various magazines, calendars and advertising materials throughout the world.
Patience is a virtue...unless you are chasing your dreams

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