Phototips - Composing Nature (Vol 2) by Heinrich van den Berg

Learn How To Compose Nature

Phototips - Composing Nature is the second in the Phototips book series aimed at photographers who want to hone their photography skills and produce breathtaking images. The Van den Bergs take you with them into the wild to photograph nature with a freshly creative perspective. Learn how to compose your nature images and how to incorporate the elements of art into your photography.

Specifications

• Size: 215 x 215 mm
• Format: Soft cover gate folded (printed on 170gsm matt paper)
• Extent: 136 pages

More About the Author

In 1998 Heinrich van den Berg left his profession as a civil engineer to become a wildlife photographer. Since then he has travelled the world photographing wildlife, culture and adventure sport with a uniquely artistic eye. In his bid to "tell a story in every picture", he has climbed icy volcanoes in Argentina and Chile, tracked endangered mountain gorillas in Rwanda, searched for rare chameleons in Madagascar, wandered through the sacred temples of Cambodia, and walked the steamy forests of Borneo and Sumatra to photograph the elusive orangutan. He has photographed extensively in Southern Africa, where he lives, capturing on film the elusive leopard in Kruger National Park, the desert elephant in Namibia’s Kaokoland, and the captivating birdlife of Botswana.

Van den Berg has done assignment photography for Getty Images, National Geographic, the Peaceparks Foundation, bhp Billiton and Discovery Communications. Assignment photography done for Discovery’s Animal Planet includes still images for the Meerkat Manor series, as well as a recent shoot at Harnas Rehabilitation Centre in Namibia.

Van den Berg’s photographs are known for breaking boundaries and depicting the natural world in a fresh and evocative way. To ensure that the quality of images is maintained from the field to the printed page, Van den Berg is intimately involved with the reproduction and printing process – from the colour correction to the design and final production of his sought-after wildlife books. Since 2001 Van den Berg has published thirteen photographic wildlife books. 

Awards & Achievements

• The Eric Hosking Award for 2016 & 2017 BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year 
• Camel Trophy International Photography Award 1998
• Fuji / Getaway Wildlife Photographer of the Year
• 14 awards in 2009 – among these were 3 Gold awards in the Profoto Awards for professional photographers