F-stop Collaborate And Listen

Welcome to episode 238 of F-Stop Collaborate and Listen! This week on the podcast I was joined by Michael Torkildsen - a landscape photographer who has been living on the road since right before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, with his eyes on becoming a full-time photographer.  Michael has had to pivot quite a bit since he launched into his full-time career and has recently been putting in the hard work of writing a self-published book on composition. Michael and I chat about his book project, and focus a lot of our time on discussing the challenges of composition in landscape and nature photography. We also discuss: Stories from working in his mother's 1-hour photo shop, His journey into full-time photography through COVID-19, Photographing icons and its application in composition, Rules of composition and how to use them (or not), Our thoughts on Instagram, And a lot more! Here's who Michael recommended for the podcast this week: Steven Webber. Hilton Chen. Other items mentioned on the sh