
Explore iPhone nature photography across landscapes, wildlife, and night sky with practical demos. Master long exposure with live mode, macro focus, light, and composition like the rule of thirds.
Capture landscapes in ideal light from sunset to afterglow, enjoying pinks, reflections, and cloud decks. Add interest with rocks, waves, and varied angles to tell a story in any light.
Explore shooting on foggy beach light, using leading lines, negative space, and rule of thirds to capture birds, pelicans, and pier scenes, telling stories through varied angles.
Master macro photography of plants using macro control with ultra wide or telephoto lenses to capture ice, leaves, and seasonal textures with lighting and filters.
Practice close-up iPhone photography of flowers and bees with three-times zoom, comparing direct sun, indirect sun, shade, and softer light to capture richer color and wing detail.
Explore wildlife in landscapes and close-ups using an iPhone, balancing limited zoom with creative angles and safe distances. Practice storytelling with varied light and gear like banana slugs and alligators.
Use Yosemite landscapes to tell stories by placing a friend for scale, capture light beyond shadows, and document smoke, ash, and wildlife, including deer and marmots.
Learn to extract a still photo of lightning from a Yosemite video using the Photos editor, crop borders, and save a high-quality iPhone shot.
Learn to capture long exposure water with live mode at Mystic Falls, Yellowstone, creating an ethereal mist. Edit with auto edit or Lightroom to enhance yellows and rocks.
Master iPhone astrophotography with long exposure to capture the Milky Way and auroras in the Badlands, experiment with tripod setups, handheld speeds, and tent lighting for creative night sky images.
Discover iPhone nature photography across landscapes, wildlife, and the night sky, and celebrate the joy of capturing outdoors; leave a happy review to help others find it.
Let's go on adventure exploring gorgeous landscapes and capturing professional looking photos of the natural world with our iPhones. Stunning landscapes, vibrant flowers, fast moving bees, the Milky Way and more!
We'll head out for demos in various locations and seasons paying attention to all the details of the basics of photography such as lighting, composition, leading lines, rule of thirds and more. Locations include national parks such as Yellowstone, Yosemite, the Badlands along with state parks across the country and even the backyard.
This class includes:
Macro and close up photography of flowers and bees demo
Long exposure of moving water to create ethereal look demo
Landscapes at sunset and less ideal light photo walk through
Capturing wildlife at various angles with interesting composition
Using humans in nature to provide scale and tell a story
How to capture lightening and extract a photo from a video
Night photography using long exposure to capture stars, aurora borealis and the Milky Way
And lots of tips to take the best photos possible with your iPhone!
This is a great place to start for anyone wanting to take amazing nature photos with their phone regardless of skill level. No need to carry a bulky SLR camera on all your hikes when you can take high quality photos with the smartphone camera in your pocket.
Let's go for a hike and start taking spectacular photos!