Joe Baraban’s Photography Blog - Stretching Your Frame of Mind

Nice and simple

Since my background is not in photography but in painting and design, I still consider myself an artist; specifically a painter of sorts.

Before the school closed due to the passing of its founder Bryan Peterson, I told my fellow p...

And now for her ECU

One of the terms that’s used in the film industry and you’ll see on movie scripts is the initials ECU, and it stands for extreme close-up. When I was a director-cameraman I would often put at least one close-up of a person on film just i...

I was in doubt, so I left it out.

Over the past five years, I found that in both my online classes with the BPSOP, and in my “Stretching Your Frame of Mind” workshop...

Front light right on the edge of darkness.

Light is one of my favorite subjects to talk about…why? Because light is everything to me, and that’s why over the past five years of writing these posts I have written several on the subject; ...

Before Bryan Peterson, the founder of the school, a conversation that often comes up is when one of my students was taking my BPSOP class tells me that acco...