Landscape Photography Tips for Stunning Captures
Landscape & Wildlife, Nature, Fine Art Photography
Asheville based photographer, Deborah Scannell, focuses her talent on capturing Mother Nature’s splendor, season after season, along the Appalachian Mountains, the Great Smokey Mountains National Park, National State Parks, Coastal Regions, and abroad.
Deborah’s landscape and nature work, in particular, has been featured throughout the Asheville and Western North Carolina region as well as overseas. She is one of the area’s most captivating landscape and nature photographers, with a penchant for framing our Blue Ridge Parkway, Great Smokey Mountain National Park, and environs in compelling ways. She has expanded her work to include coastal areas such as Maine and Acadia National Park. Deborah often states that “The scene is never the same twice. It morphs and changes even as you watch.
Catch one of her classes at the John C Campbell Folk School. Deb teaches a one week class every year. Or follow her on Facebook to find the next workshop, which she keeps small so each student has independent time with her in real life shooting environments which include locations like the Blue Ridge Parkway, WNC waterfalls such as Soco Falls, Dry Falls and Looking Glass Falls. She also teaches how to capture great sunsets from the Blue Ridge Mountain’s best locations. These workshops also include a post-production video tutorial of an image from the workshop that she captures. The video is meant to share her knowledge of post-production skills, tips and tricks for polishing off your photography.
Deborah says “Photography is the intersection of composition, light, and timing. Sometimes it is the absence of light and what is NOT in the image that makes a good image. Knowing what to leave out could be as important as what to include. The absence of light is as important as light itself, as this is what gives shape and form to the subject of your image. Light cannot exist without darkness, and it’s that contrast that I work with. Revealing the gradients between light and dark is what we, as photographers, do. It is our artist’s pallet.”
