John Pedersen Photography Blog
The written word can be as creative and artistic as a photograph. So I strive to write regular blog posts about my travels, gear reviews or just some thoughts that need to get out. I hope you find information, insight or inspiration through my blog.
The Fog
One of the most exciting times for me to photograph is when The Fog comes around. No, I'm not talking about Karl the Fog (see twitter @karlthefog), I'm talking about real fog or heavy mist [ read more ... ]
NIK Collection3 Software Upgrade
NIK photo editing software just came out with an exciting upgrade, the NIK Collection3! If you don't use the NIK suite of tools, I suggest you take a look at it. It is intuitive and [ read more ... ]
Take a Visual Inventory
Visual Inventory is Critical One of my strongest pieces of advice to my clients and students is to take a visual inventory of your composition before you click the shutter button and then when you [ read more ... ]
Shoot the conditions, not the subject
One thing I tell my workshop attendees all of the time is to shoot the conditions, not the subject. That's not to say we don't need a compelling subject in our images, however, you need [ read more ... ]
Creating Calm Borders
How much do you pay attention to the edges of your composition, before AND after taking the image, and do you have calm borders? One of the lessons I was taught early on in [ read more ... ]
Recommended Photography Books
For this blog post I'd like to give you a a small list of some of my favorite and recommended photography books. During this time of social distancing, one of the things I've done is [ read more ... ]
Creative Rut
As photographers and creative people, at one time or another, we will probably find ourselves in a creative rut. That's a very broad term and it can mean different things to different people. Perhaps you're [ read more ... ]
Vignette Your Images
We all have our own way of post-processing images and I'm not here to tell you the "right way", but I am here to say that the one thing I do to every single image [ read more ... ]
H&Y Magnetic Filter System
As a landscape photographer, I believe in using filters in the field to get the best capture possible before I head back to post-processing. Getting it "right" in camera is part of the artistry. And, [ read more ... ]