Great Falls Autumn Workshop 2009 & End of the Fall Workshop Season

This past weekend marked the end of our fall workshop season with our Great Falls Autumn Workshop. The weather was challenging with lots of clouds and rain. No breaks in the sun at all for 3 days! We made the best of it and all came away with some really nice images. The color was pretty sweet especially along Scotts Run. Here is a small gallery of images. Enjoy!

To order prints, sign up for nature photography workshops and classes as well as browse a large selection of images from across the United States, please visit my website at www.josephrossbach.com

Our Next event is at Meadowlark, VA:

Mini-Workshop at Meadowlark Nature Center

In this four-hour mini-workshop, we will describe the techniques of abstract photography, of line and shape, as well as multiple exposure, panning, macro techniques, and software manipulation. Two hours will be devoted to outdoor experience. Please dress appropriately.

Register here 

Autumn Meditations

To order prints, sign up for nature photography workshops and classes as well as browse a large selection of images from across the United States, please visit my website at www.josephrossbach.com

Our Next event is at Meadowlark, VA:

Mini-Workshop at Meadowlark Nature Center

In this four-hour mini-workshop, we will describe the techniques of abstract photography, of line and shape, as well as multiple exposure, panning, macro techniques, and software manipulation. Two hours will be devoted to outdoor experience. Please dress appropriately.

Register here

Hooper Strait lighthouse reflected in window of an old fishing shed, St. Micheals, MD

I had a great little workshop this weekend at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum on St. Micheals, MD this weekend. Here is a shot I made of Hooper Strait Lighthouse reflected in an old fishing shed.

To order prints, sign up for nature photography workshops and classes as well as browse a large selection of images from across the United States, please visit my website at www.josephrossbach.com

Our Next event is at Meadowlark, VA:

Mini-Workshop at Meadowlark Nature Center

In this four-hour mini-workshop, we will describe the techniques of abstract photography, of line and shape, as well as multiple exposure, panning, macro techniques, and software manipulation. Two hours will be devoted to outdoor experience. Please dress appropriately.

Register here

Glade Creek Grist Mill, Babcock State Park, West Virginia

While on my last trip to the Blue Ridge in Virginia, I got the sudden urge to drive the  extra 130 miles over to Babcock State Park near New River Gorge. I left Crabtree Falls area after the light went harsh and made it over to the mill around 3pm. The light was harsh, so I drove over to Cathedral Falls (an extra 23 miles west) and shot the falls for a bit before heading back to the grist mill at sunset.

To order prints, sign up for nature photography workshops and classes as well as browse a large selection of images from across the United States, please visit my website at www.josephrossbach.com

Fall color on the Tye River below Crabtree Falls, George Washington National Forest, Virginia

I took a quick two-day trip this past week to the Blue Ridge Parkway in Virgina to shoot Crabtree Meadow Falls in the George Washington National Forest and to skip on over the Babcock State Park in West Virginia to photograph the iconic Grist Mill with fall color. The image below was made on the morning of the second day of the trip after spending a little time hiking the falls trail. I had shot this scene before in the spring, but made a note to return here in the fall to get a shot with fallen leaves and some nice color in the background. In order to get the right perspective for this image, i climbed into the water almost falling a few times on the slick rocks. The perspective from the banks just didn’t line up the cascades and fall color in the distance, so it was necessary to get my feet wet to make this image. Enjoy and stop back later this week for some more images from the trip, Joe.

To order prints, sign up for nature photography workshops and classes as well as browse a large selection of images from across the United States, please visit my website at www.josephrossbach.com

Hard Drive Hunting

It’s been raining all day, so I stayed indoors with my wife Amber and son Phoenix today just chillin’ out! I got bored this afternoon and went hard drive hunting for images I might have overlooked from this past summer’s trip to Colora…do and New Mexico. Found quite a few images that were worthy of a second look! Here they are, enjoy!

 

My Facebook Photo Page

I started a Facebook page for Joseph Rossbach Photography a few months ago. I only recently started actively using it and am finding it to be quite a bit of fun.

If you are interested in becoming a fan, then click the link below. I would love to see everyone online and discuss all the great photo ops we have here in the Mid Atlantic and Southeast US.

Joseph Rossbach Photography on Facebook

DC Photo Week Mini Workshop

 

In this four-hour mini-workshop, we will describe the techniques of abstract photography, of line and shape, as well as multiple exposure, panning, macro techniques, and software manipulation. Two hours will be devoted to outdoor experience. Please dress appropriately.

Cost $85

Click here to register!

Waterfalls and color along the Mad River at sunset in Vermont.

I made this image on the very first outing of this years Vermont Photo Workshop. It was a gloomy and rainy day and after we had finished up shooting at Moss Glen Falls I took the group a bit up Rt. 100 to this great little section of falls. The light levels were very low and many in  the group probably thought what the hell is this guy doing trying to shoot this image in such low light. We arrived 10 minutes after official sunset. I got into the stream and encouraged some other to follow. We set up a tight composition of the falls with a nice bit of color in the background. I metered out 30 seconds at f11. I knew I needed a bit more DOF, so I moved the aperture up to f16 and increased the exposure to 1 minute. I also manually set my white balances color temperature to 7600K to warm up the scene and remove the majority of the strong blue color cast from shooting at this time of day and light. I am quite happy with the end result and it just goes to show that with the right knowledge and craft you can create stunning images in less than optimal shooting conditions!

Abstract Nature Photography Online Class Announcement

I am pleased to present my ”Abstract” online nature photography course. NPN online courses are conducted in “virtual classroom” private forums.  Lessons and interaction with the instructor – and other students – take place in the virtual classroom.

This course includes six lessons, which are presented in publication-quality PDF format. Each lesson is allotted one week for completion and includes a shooting assignment. The student may post questions in the virtual classroom at any time during the week for the instructor to answer. Once the assignment is completed, the student will post their work in the virtual classroom for instructor and peer review. At the completion of the course, each student will receive a personalized Certificate of Completion.

You can pay for the course via your PayPal account or directly with a credit card. We are so confident that you will enjoy and benefit from any of our online nature photography courses that we offer a no-hassle, no-questions-asked 100% satisfaction guarantee. Once the course commences, you have 14 days to cancel and receive a full refund.

Click here to register!   First class session starts on November 1st!