Expressive Photographic Landscapes

The natural world offers an endless well of inspiration, and this new online program with Eddie Soloway invites you to open your eyes to fresh ways of seeing and visually expressing the world around you. Across two sessions, Eddie pulls back the curtain on his photographic practice of 40 years, exploring a treasure trove of ideas that give you the tools to express what you are seeing and feeling in an important photograph.

If you love a classic landscape, where the viewer immediately understands what they see, a handful of key ideas can make an image go from commonplace to extraordinary. 

If your passion sits in new interpretations, photographs where the viewer pauses and spends more time with the image, we take a thorough look at developing a great vocabulary of overlooked light, a mastery of the realms of focus, and a command of movement, both when nature moves or you move. It can be mind-blowing to realize how much control there is to choose from, right inside the camera.

And Eddie takes you deeper. 

Every moment in photographic history has a technical obsession. Color filters and cross-processed film preceded HDR, which was followed by multiple exposures and camera movement. New techniques are fun, but how do you take a new sketch and perfect it? How do you go beyond quick satisfaction and emulation, and into a finished piece that expresses your intent? Eddie’s newest images provide a conversation for when an idea isn’t finished versus when you are stepping confidently into a new expression. 

In addition, Eddie reviews the most important techniques to make your phone camera photographs rival those made from other cameras, including a look at his new images and the apps he used.

Photography has always held an important place in mixed media art. From collage to monotypes, digital expressionism to even bypassing a camera, Eddie takes a fun look at new ways of thinking about photography. Throughout the sessions, Eddie shares practical advice on the heart of creativity: staying inspired, getting unstuck, and turning off distractions. Using examples, he looks at the skill of arriving at a scene, and knowing what will work, and what will not—of finding the pearls in a place. Making an expressive landscape photograph is often a dance between being playful and thoughtful. The richness and depth of the four hours leaves you charged with possibilities and with a clearer understanding of how to take meaningful steps forward on your own creative journey.