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"Dolph from Texas" by Craig Tanner
In this week’s Photo of the Week on the Daily Critique Craig looks at a powerful storytelling photograph and discusses the following :
- the visual power of archetypes and their place in the storytelling... [Read More] |
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"John from Michigan" by Craig Tanner
In today’s Daily Critique Craig looks at a beautiful landscape photograph and discusses the following:
- dynamic contouring lines in the background
- a similar implied energy of movement in the... [Read More] |
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"David from Washington" by Craig Tanner
In this week’s Photo of the Week on the Daily Critique Craig looks at a beautiful still life photograph submitted for TME’s Community Assignment #23 - In My Backyard - and discusses the following:
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"Greg from Pennsylvania" by Craig Tanner
In today’s Daily Critique Craig looks at a beautiful cityscape photograph and discusses the following:
- going beyond the ordinary by choosing a radical camera position
- shooting without looking... [Read More] |
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"Jim from Pennsylvania" by Craig Tanner
In today’s Daily Critique Craig looks at a beautiful still life photograph and discusses the following:
- complimentary color pairs
- juxtaposition different qualities of line and shape
- soft... [Read More] |
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"Bill from Virginia" by Craig Tanner
In this week’s Photo of the Week on the Daily Critique Craig looks at a beautiful photograph submitted for TME’s Community Assignment #22 (The Road) and discusses the following:
- the power of backlight in... [Read More] |
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"Bob from West Virginia" by Craig Tanner
In today’s Daily Critique Craig looks at a beautiful landscape photograph and discusses the following:
- framing as a design concept
- design motifs of spokes on the wheel and leading line
- in... [Read More] |
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"Jackie from Florida" by Craig Tanner
In this week’s Photo of the Week on the Daily Critique Craig looks at a beautiful landscape photograph and discusses the following :
- extraordinary camera position
- quality of light is relative to... [Read More] |
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In this Inspiration Image Showcase Craig looks at and discusses, from the standpoint of design and creativity, a portfolio of seven inspiring images that were submitted for the Daily Critique.
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"Yves from Texas" by Craig Tanner
In today’s Daily Critique Craig looks at a beautiful portrait and discusses the following:
- Metadata = Canon 5D, f2.8 100mm lens, ISO 320, f9@ 1/160th
- 100mm as a classic portrait focal length
-... [Read More] |
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"John from California" by Craig Tanner
In today’s Daily Critique Craig looks at a beautiful landscape photograph and discusses the following:
- meta data - Nikon D90, 18-105 zoom@75mm, f 5.3@1/250th
- soft light for highly detailed... [Read More] |
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"Roland from New Mexico" by Craig Tanner
In today’s Daily Critique Craig looks at a strong documentary photograph and discusses the following:
- radical camera position
- the psychological and design impact of shooting very high to low... [Read More] |
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"Munawar from Illinois" by Craig Tanner
In this week’s Photo of the Week on the Daily Critique Craig looks at a powerful diptych that was submitted for TME’s Community Assignment #21 and discusses the following:
- the archetype of opposites
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"John from the USA" by Craig Tanner
In today’s Daily Critique Craig looks at a beautiful landscape/ wildlife photograph and discusses the following:
- capturing the moment
- compromise exposure
- panning with moving wildlife to... [Read More] |
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"Jon from California" by Craig Tanner
In today’s Daily Critique Craig looks at a strong architectural detail photograph and discusses the following:
- simplifying by getting close
- simplifying color by limiting the number of colors,... [Read More] |
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"Ilona from Washington" by Craig Tanner
In this week’s Photo of the Week on the Daily Critique Craig looks at a beautiful story related photograph and discusses the following:
- working with archetypes as an element of visual design
-... [Read More] |
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"Self Critique" by Craig Tanner
In today’s Daily Critique Craig looks at his own landscape photograph and discusses the following:
- the importance of the polarizer in general scenic photography
- the effect of shutter speeds of around 1... [Read More] |
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"Steve from Texas" by Craig Tanner
In today’s Daily Critique Craig looks at a beautiful macro photograph and discusses the following:
- three ways to get to high magnification
- size of our light source relative to our subject
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"Kim from Washington" by Craig Tanner
In today’s Daily Critique Craig looks at a powerful documentary photograph and discusses the following:
- thank you for our biggest traffic day ever and….. sharing the spirit of the TME Community with your... [Read More] |
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The Great Photo Finish: "How To's - Adobe Photoshop CS4" by Craig Tanner
In this episode of The Great Photo Finish Craig shows you how to record, save, share and load actions in Adobe Photoshop CS4.... [Read More] |
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"David from Scotland" by Craig Tanner
In this week’s Photo of the Week on the Daily Critique Craig looks at a beautiful light painting photograph and discusses the following:
- white balance and the blue and orange complimentary color pair... [Read More] |
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"Jose from Spain" by Craig Tanner
In today’s Daily Critique Craig looks at a strong portrait and discusses the following:
- using shallow depth of field to simplify and the lead the viewer’s eye
- getting rid of color to increase the... [Read More] |
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"George from Pennsylvania" by Craig Tanner
In today’s Daily Critique Craig looks at a strong nature photograph and discusses the following:
- simplicity as a design concept
- managing global and local contrast
- working with... [Read More] |
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In today's Daily Critique Craig looks at a beautiful landscape photograph and discusses the following:
- taking pictures along the way
- playing the hand you are dealt
- complimentary color and quality of line
- getting closer and... [Read More] |
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"Abhi from California" by Craig Tanner
In this week's Photo of the Week on the Daily Critique Craig looks at a beautiful architectural photograph and discusses the following:
- tenacity
- continuing to work the scene when the preconceived... [Read More] |
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"Jose from Spain" by Craig Tanner
In today’s Daily Critique Craig looks at a strong landscape photograph and discusses the following:
- shooting the eastern sunset and western sunrise
- shutter speeds for landscapes that imply subtle... [Read More] |
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"Bob from California" by Craig Tanner
In today’s Daily Critique Craig looks at an environment dominant photograph of a lion and discusses the following:
- gesture and quality of line
- repetition of the lion and the implied negative space... [Read More] |
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Camera Setup: Exposure, Part 2 by Craig Tanner
This is the 4th video in a series of short videos that we have recorded for our TME Inspirational Photography Weekends that cover basic camera set up and basic exposure. In this video Craig delves... [Read More] |
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"Victor from India" by Craig Tanner
In today’s Daily Critique Craig looks at a beautiful landscape photograph and discusses the following:
- choosing the best working aperture
- using under exposure to create mystery and increase the... [Read More] |
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Camera Setup: Exposure, Part 1 by Craig Tanner
This is the third video in a series of short videos that we have recorded for our TME Inspirational Photography Weekends that cover basic camera set up and basic exposure. In this video Craig lays... [Read More] |
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"Mike from Florida" by Craig Tanner
In today's Daily Critique Craig looks at a beautiful landscape photograph that was submitted for TME’s Community Assignment #19 / Sunstar and discusses the following:
- storm light as a quality of light... [Read More] |
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"Cam from California" by Craig Tanner
In today’s Daily Critique Craig looks at a beautiful landscape photograph and discusses the following:
- scouting while you are shooting - the importance of the neutral density filter
- beautiful... [Read More] |
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"Kel from Georgia" by Craig Tanner
In today’s Daily Critique Craig looks at a beautiful still life photograph and discusses the following:
- simplicity as an element of design
- design elements that can create the illusion of three... [Read More] |
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"Francis from Texas" by Craig Tanner
In today’s Daily Critique Craig looks at a strong landscape photograph and discusses the following:
- using a right angle finder to help with getting low
- getting close to the foreground
- quality... [Read More] |
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Camera Setup: White Balance by Craig Tanner
This is the second video in a series of short videos that we have recorded for our TME Inspirational Photography Weekends that cover basic camera set up and basic exposure. In this video Craig discusses... [Read More] |
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Camera Setup: Introduction and Image Quality by Craig Tanner
This is the first video in a series of short videos that we have recorded for our TME Inspirational Photography Weekends that cover basic camera set up and basic exposure. In this... [Read More] |
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"Wes from Virginia" by Craig Tanner
In this week’s Photo of the Week on the Daily Critique Craig looks at a dramatic impromptu portrait and discusses the following:
- understanding the technical limits of your camera and lenses and the effect... [Read More] |
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"Polaroid Pogo Instant Printer" by Craig Tanner
In this video Craig shares his excitement about the Polaroid Pogo Instant Printer and shares a tip for getting the best print quality and some ideas about using the printer to have more fun as a... [Read More] |
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"Blake from Connecticut" by Craig Tanner
In today’s Daily Critique Craig looks at a beautiful formal portrait and discusses the following:
- a one soft box lighting set up and quality of light
- placing the light to get light in the eyes... [Read More] |
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"Richard from Connecticut" by Craig Tanner
In today’s Daily Critique Craig looks at a beautiful waterfall photograph and discusses the following:
- soft light, longer exposures and the polarizer being a good combination for shooting moving... [Read More] |
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"Julie from Florida" by Craig Tanner
In today’s Daily Critique Craig looks at a strong portrait and discusses the following:
- going past fears and building community for your work
- image quality and your histogram
- using curves to... [Read More] |
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"April from Illinois" by Craig Tanner
In this week’s Photo of the Week on the Daily Critique Craig looks at a beautiful still life portrait that was submitted for TME’s Community Assignment #18 / Shadow and discusses the following:
- April’s... [Read More] |
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Great Photo Finish: "Unlimited Depth of Field" Part 2 by Craig Tanner
In this second part of a two part episode of The Great Photo Finish Craig discusses field techniques, combined with post processing in Helicon Focus software, for creating... [Read More] |
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The Great Photo Finish: "Unlimited Depth of Field" Part 1 by Craig Tanner
In this episode of The Great Photo Finish Craig discusses field techniques, combined with Adobe Photoshop CS 4 techniques, for creating landscape scenics with unlimited... [Read More] |
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"Alex from New Zealand" by Craig Tanner
In today's Daily Critique Craig looks at a beautiful still life portrait and discusses the following:
- working with assignments and concepts to grow creativity
- working with angles slightly off of... [Read More] |
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 | Foundation Concepts
"Sunstar" by Craig Tanner
In this Foundation Concept video Craig looks at the subject of creating sunstars in landscape photographs and discusses the following:
- a lenses smallest f-stops will create the strongest effect
- using a small... [Read More] |
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"Diffraction" by Craig Tanner
In this Foundation Concept video Craig looks at the optical aberration of diffraction and how it relates to aperture and f-stop and discusses the following :
- a lay person’s definition of diffraction
- what... [Read More] |
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"Dave from California" by Craig Tanner
In today's Daily Critique Craig looks at a beautiful nature photograph and discusses the following:
- using shallow depth of field to simplify and imply depth
- using complimentary color pairs to... [Read More] |
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"TJ from Texas" by Craig Tanner
In this week's Photo of the Week on the Daily Critique Craig looks at a beautiful environment dominant portrait and discusses the following:
- 35mm as a great focal length for environment dominant portraits... [Read More] |
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"Yair from Death Valley Workshop" by Craig Tanner
In this week’s Photo of the Week on the Daily Critique Craig looks at a beautiful landscape photograph and discusses the following:
- working with effective focal lengths of 300mm or longer to... [Read More] |
Craig Tanner is a location advertising photographer, film maker and widely acclaimed photographic educator. In his career as a landscape based advertising photographer Craig has produced stock and assignment photography for hundreds of clients including Kodak, Adobe, Delta, Arvida, Georgia Tourism, and the Jack Nicklaus Development Corporation. Craig's photographs have appeared in numerous national and regional publications including Backpacker, Outdoor Photographer, Outside, Southern Living, and Atlanta Magazine. Since 1992, Craig's editorial work has been exclusively featured in over twenty-five calendars and in the book Georgia, published by Graphic Arts Center Publishers.
