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238: Michael Torkildsen - Composition is a Dance!


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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!
  • In the episode we briefly discussed Greg Vaughn's excellent Photographing Oregon book, and Greg sent in a correction to the discussion:


    "For Photographing Oregon, the publisher and I arranged a license for each of those photos with the creators. The photographers were paid in the form of 10 copies of the book (valued at $25 each), plus they received an adjacent photo credit and a link to their website in the book. With the exception of one photographer, all of the photographers that I asked to contribute readily did so on those terms. We did the same for photographs featured in Photographing Washington."

    Here's who Michael recommended for the podcast this week:

    • Steven Webber.
  • Hilton Chen.
  • Other items mentioned on the show:

    1. Support Michael's Kickstarter Project.

    2. Michael Rung's special offer.

    3. Support the show on Patreon.

    4. Join us on Clubhouse!

    I love hearing from the podcast listeners! Reach out to me via InstagramFacebook, or Twitter if you'd like to be on the podcast or if you have an idea of a topic we can talk about. We also have an Instagram page, a Facebook Page, and a Facebook Group - so don't be shy!

    We also have a searchable transcript of every episode!

    Thanks for stopping in, collaborating with us, and listening. See you next week.

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