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Are Social Media Destroying Your Self Confidence?
Last week I wrote a post on Instagram about the effects of social media on self confidence. I got so many responses to this that I decided I would write a blog post about this. It is ever so easy to...
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How To Find Your Personal Photography Style
First of all; what is a photography style? This is the way I define the difference between a vision and a style. Your vision is your personal filter through which you see the world. This filter has...
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How To Capture Magical Sun Rays
How To Capture Magical Sun RaysSun rays make every forest scene looks enchanted and magical. How to photograph these heavenly sunbeams, when to capture them, what lens to use and what conditions to...
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Step Up Your Photography By Capturing Storytelling Images
Storytelling is inherent to being human. Ever since we started to populate this planet, we told stories. Even before humans were able to speak, people told stories by drawing in caves, later by telling...
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Fall Photography: 10 Ways To Capture The Magic Of Autumn
For many landscape and nature photographers, autumn is their favourite time of the year. The colours are stunning, dewdrops make for magical macro photos, the nights are colder and this increases the...
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The Pursuit Of Inspiration In Photography
Do you ever feel like you somehow lost connection to inspiration? That the times you felt truly inspired feel like distant memories? I think all creatives go through this from time to time and even...
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Patience Pays Off In Photography
As I am sitting here reflecting on the past few weeks that I got to spend in the mountains in France, I keep thinking about the light and how it affected my work and my work pace. For my forest...
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The Key To A Personal Photography Style
Last week I was going over the pictures I had taken in France and this got me thinking of what exactly it is that is responsible for a personal photography style. This subject just kept popping up in...
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The Perfectionist Photographer
Many people believe perfectionism to be a very positive trait. People who are perfectionists are perceived as hard workers, as very conscientious and as people who will go the extra mile. The thing is...
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The Magic Of The Moment
One of the things that I am asked most often is about my way of working. Many people wonder how there can be room for spontaneity if my pictures are sort of prepared in advance. The Magic Of The...
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Negative Space in (Forest) Photography
Negative Space In (Forest) PhotographyEven though many forest photographers voice having sky or a lot of negative space in their images, it is a crucially important part of a photograph. Including...
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Vertical Or Horizontal ; Composition In Photography Part 2
Composition in photography is no more or less than finding a pleasing lay-out for the subject(s) in your frame that works best. This means that you are looking for the right distribution of elements...
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Get Motivated: 10 Ideas To Jumpstart Your Photography In 2019
Many creatives suffer from a bit of a loss of inspiration in the winter months. The weeks before Christmas are usually not as quiet and peaceful as you would like them to be and on the first day of the...
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The Right Questions To Ask To Improve Your Photographic Vision
The Right Questions To Ask To Improve Your Photographic VisionThe questions to ask to reflect on your past photography work so you stay on track, improve your images and stay true to your vision I...
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Winter Forest Photography: Tips, Ideas and Challenges
Many photographers don't bother taking pictures in the bare winter forests unless there is a nice blanket of snow. The trees have lost their leaves, the sky is often grey and the atmosphere is not...
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Low Contrast Photography And How To Correct It In Post Processing
Low Contrast Photography ArticleLow Contrast Photography Article by Ellen Borggrevewww.ellenborggreve.com/blog One of the most asked questions I get is how I add contrast to pictures taken in very low...
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Photographing The Winter Of 2019
Winter Photography 2018/2019Gallery of pictures taken in the winter of 2018/2019 by Ellen Borggreve, Fine Art Landscape Photographerwww.ellenborggreve.com This is a small collection of images I...
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The Evolution Of A Photography Style
Evolution is one of the most elementary things of nature and of human nature as well. Outgrowing a past stage is therefore one of the most natural things that can happen, yet it scares so many artists....
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The Photographer's Place In The Picture
Every now and then I get these comments on my images that read: "Is this even real?". As I am a photographer, who is aiming to capture the magical side of reality, one that is often overlooked by many,...
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The Need For Connection In Photography
As I was typing out the title, I started to wonder what connection would mean to people in the context of photography. Would the first thing coming to mind be the wifi connection of your phone or...
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The Art Of Being Unique
The Art Of Being UniqueHow embracing what makes you unique help shape your photography and art. In the past few weeks I have been tidying up so much that even Marie Kondo could be jealous of it. It is...
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Camera, Craftsmanship and Artistry
Photography appears to be the only art in which the tool is believed to be the magic-maker. The number of times I am asked about my camera and lenses can not be counted. I am more than willing to share...
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Lightroom's Texture and Clarity For Landscape Photography
If you have the latest version of Lightroom (Classic), you might have noticed two things. First of all, Lightroom (Classic) no longer has the CC (for Creative Cloud) added to the name. This is because...
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Photography Is Not A Competition, Nor Should It Be
Even though there are photographic competitions, photography itself and art in general is not a competition. In the creative process there is no finish line, no competitors, no comparison. All creative...
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The Painterly Effect
My pictures have a painterly feel to them and I am often asked what kind of filter I use to create this kind of look. There is no quick answer to this and so I decided to write this blog post in which...
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The Importance Of Revisiting A Location
If you have read my blog posts for some time, you already know that I am a big believer in revisiting a few locations over and over again. I think that some people think I simply don't know about other...
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Photography Beyond The Comfort Zone
A deliberate journey into unknown territory Photography Beyond The Comfort ZoneHow to embrace the uncomfortable nature of venturing outside our comfort zone, get off auto pilot and to accept failures...
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Photography ; Mastery And Creativity
Like many arts, photography has a technical aspect and a creative element. Even though we might strive to improve our skills, our craftsmanship, with the ultimate goal of mastering photography, it is...
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Twenty Nineteen In Retrospect
Twenty nineteen ended weeks ago and it was a blazing fast year for me. A year in which the death of a loved one casted long shadows over my mood, my priorities and my work as well. It was a year in...
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The Photographic Plateau: When The View Is Bleak
When starting out most photographers face a steep learning curve which starts by learning about the techniques behind capturing that perfect picture, which is sharp and straight, then moving on to...
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Lightroom Basics For Forest and Landscape Photography Part 1
Whilst so many of us are confined to our homes at the moment, many photographers turn to their picture archives. If your archives are anything like mine, there are huge amounts of pictures in there,...
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Lightroom Basics For Forest and Landscape Photography Part 2
Welcome to part 2 of my Lightroom Editing series. We are moving on to the next panels in Lightroom to further refine the picture that I started working on in part 1 of this series. Lightroom Basics For...
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Lightroom Basics For Forest and Landscape Photography Part 3
Even though many people might think of Photoshop first for colour toning their images, there are many ways that this can be done in Lightroom as well. Today I want to talk about colour in Lightroom and...
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The Other Side Of Inspiration
It has been a long time since I last sat down to write a piece, since I was able to do so. Whilst the world around me changed completely, whilst planes were kept on the ground, companies had to shut...
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True Nature
The expression of the unique self in photography or any other kind of art is really important to me. It is one of those subjects that immediately gets me into gear or climb on my soapbox. Lately I...
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Originality and Authenticity
Whilst I was working on an individual masterclass in the past few weeks and talking to several people about authenticity in photography, I once again noticed that originality is perceived differently...
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Fear of Failure as My Loyal Companion
No matter how much fear of failure has stopped me in the past of doing what I wanted to do, these days I regard it as a very loyal companion. It is there for me all the time just to give me a sign when...
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2020 Moments Of Magic
Photography has always been my escape from the sometimes harsh reality and my tool to help me find a more magical side of reality. After my world came tumbling down this year, it was harder than ever...
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Ending The Numbing
"How much life do I exchange for followers and likes?" This sentence persistently showed up on the pages of my journals over the past few years, nudging me to find an answer to this question, urging me...
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Life After Social Media: The Return Of Creativity
It has now been three months since I left Instagram and Facebook and since my iPhone is no longer my loyal companion. In fact, I replaced it with a fixed lens camera that is as analogue as a digital...
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Framed: The Edges Of The Image
A lot can be said about composition in photography, but often the frame itself, the aspect ratio, is forgotten when composing. Very often the sensor of the camera defines where the edges of the frame...
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The Pitfalls Of Chasing Perfect Conditions
Landscape photographers tend to chase the perfect light, the light that will lend to the scene a sense of glory that otherwise would not be there. We all think we know what those perfect conditions...
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Advanced Lightroom Colour Control
This is a tutorial that has been a long time coming. As I often review pictures for workshop clients I see quite a lot of pictures that look very muddy after post processing. Many clients wonder why...
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Interpretations and Perceptions of the Landscape
Photography is often mistakenly believed to be a factual representation of what is. Different types of photographers hold different beliefs as to how factual it should be and discussions on this...
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The Sketching Photographer
The one thing that is stressed in the lifelong ongoing education of painters, draftsmen and animators alike is to sketch...always, anywhere, any place, any time. Sketching sharpens the vision, it...
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Restore, Reset and Renew, 2021 in Retrospective
At the end of each year I choose a word for the upcoming 365 days, a word that will act as my compass. The word I chose for 2021 was Restore. The year before had left me feeling broken and lost and I...
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The Missing Ingredient
Sometimes my heart sinks when I see a truly magnificent photograph, artfully and skillfully created, being reduced to some raw ingredients by some other photographers. The questions and comments...
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Photography: The Witnessed or The Witness
Moving beyond the witnessed reality to express the reality of the witness For me this marks the difference between documenting photography (and there is nothing wrong with that) and self-expression in...
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Beyond The Rule Of Thirds
I found myself reading a thread on a photography forum a few weeks ago and slowly following the string of words which were uttered to criticize a certain picture, I was suddenly stopped in my tracks....
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Photographer of Transience
It is June 2022, the longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere is already behind us and I find myself back in the place I call home on the top of a mountain with a heavy backpack strapped on...
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