Announcements
by Michael Frye | Sep 5, 2024 | Announcements
Tomorrow, September 6th, at 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time, 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time, I’ll be one of the presenters in a free webinar hosted by the Out of Chicago team called Waterfalls, Wildflowers, and Wildlife. I’ll be joining several other instructors from next year’s Out of Great Smoky Mountains conference for this webinar, including Chrissy Donadi, Michele Sons, Dusty Doddridge, Stephanie Johnson, Kurt Budliger, and John Putnam, and we’ll each be sharing ideas and tips about photographing waterfalls, wildflowers, or wildlife.
The webinar is free, but you’ll need to register in advance to attend live:
Click here to register for the webinar.
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by Michael Frye | Aug 29, 2024 | Announcements, Night Photography
1927 Dodge Graham with gas pumps at night, Bodie State Historic Park, California. In my presentation Complex Lighting With One Flashlight I’ll show how to create rich, complex, sophisticated lighting with just one flashlight – as I did in this photo, lighting the old truck and gas pumps from multiple angles with just one light.
August 31st is the last day to get the early-bird discount on the Nightscaper Photo Conference!
This conference, focused on night photography, takes place September 26-29 in Kanab, Utah. I’ll be making two presentations at this event: Complex Lighting With One Flashlight, and Nighttime Sequences. And I’ll be teaching alongside a stellar lineup of other presenters, including Lance Keimig, Royce Bair, Jess Santos, Matt Hill, Tim Cooper, Rafael Pons, Katrina Brown, and a bunch more. Topics include star trails, auroras, printing, panoramas, deep-space astrophotography, Photoshop selections and masks, planning with PhotoPills – too many more to list them all here, but you can see all the details on the Nightscaper website:
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by Michael Frye | Aug 23, 2024 | Announcements
I’m excited to be joining the Out of Chicago team for another photo conference – this time in the Great Smokies!
I love photographing the kind of intimate landscapes this park abounds in during the spring – creeks, cascades, forests, blooming dogwoods, and misty ridges. I’m looking forward to photographing these scenes, and to helping participants find their own visions of this beautiful area.
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by Michael Frye | May 24, 2024 | Announcements
Melting Ice #1, Yosemite NP, CA, USA. This photograph of mine earned fourth place in the Abstracts and Details category in 2023.
There’s still time to enter the Natural Landscape Photography Awards contest! The deadline is next Friday, May 31st. And you can still get a 10% discount on entries by using the code FRYE10.
I’m honored to be one of the judges this year, alongside my distinguished fellow judges Viktoria Haack, Lizzie Shepherd, Matt Palmer, and Ben Horne.
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by Michael Frye | Apr 15, 2024 | Announcements
El Capitan emerging from clouds, Yosemite NP, California. This photo was awarded first place in the Grand Landscape category of the Natural Landscape Photography Awards in 2021.
I’m pleased to announce that I’ll be a judge this year for the Natural Landscape Photography Awards!
From its inception, I’ve felt that this contest’s goals align with mine: making photographs that celebrate the beauty of nature – without excessive manipulation, and where the photographer’s skill and vision behind the camera are more important than their Photoshop skills.
I’ve entered this competition in each of its first three years, and was fortunate enough to win some awards, including first place in the Grand Landscape category in 2021. Now it’s my turn to help decide who will get those awards – though of course I won’t be alone, as I’ll be joining a distinguished panel of fellow judges: Viktoria Haack, Lizzie Shepherd, Matt Palmer, and Ben Horne.
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by Michael Frye | Mar 4, 2024 | Announcements
Lightning over the San Joaquin Valley from the Sierra Nevada foothills, California
What elevates a photograph beyond the ordinary? Light, composition, and technical proficiency all play parts, but is there something more?
I think so. The photographs that I respond to most strongly go beyond just showing what a scene looks like, and touch me on an emotional level. They suggest something bigger, more universal than the literal subject matter depicted in the image. They evoke a sense of mystery, or wonder, or awe, or surprise me by showing the world in an unexpected way.
I think this is such an important aspect of photography, so I’m really looking forward to delving into this topic more in my presentation for Nic Stover’s Nature Photography Classes next Monday. The presentation is called A Sense of Mystery, and focuses on those hard-to-define components that make a photograph richer, and give it more universal meaning. I’ll talk about the what, and the how – what elevates a photograph beyond the ordinary, and how you can make images that convey a sense of mystery and wonder.
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