Archive — Drake Busath

Drake Busath (http://drakebusath.com/) has been a working photographer for 35 years. He guides workshops in Italy, where he has worked, lived, and traveled extensively. Drake teaches professional seminars from Australia and Asia to Europe and in most U.S. States. He has been featured multiple times on the cover of Professional Photographer magazine, and his photographs hang in thousands of homes...
Consider this a fall 2012 cornucopia of workshops coming up: some are the classic fall landscape 'shops and some are the high end artistic stuff. We do enjoy pulling out some really interesting ones from time to time, like Maine Media Workshop's photographic journey on a boat, which (though pricey) may be a great way to travel and photograph the...
Some scenes just say Black and White to me. My first clue is contrast. High contrast situations with well defined shadows are a natural for monotone, so on bright sunny days in a town like this I shift my brain to B&W. The next clue that B&W might be the way to go is when the scene has very little...
Old people in Italian villages, especially men, spend lots of time on the street. I really enjoy engaging them and making portraits where they stand. Spy pictures with a telephoto lens are fine, but I prefer face to face confrontational portraits. I like the energy that's exchanged between the viewer and the subject when they are aware of one another....
Every year, Alpine Art on South Temple in Salt Lake City, curates a photography exhibit early in the year and is always trying a new twist. This year, Alpine collected photographs of 24 photographers, each one taken during the first 24 hours of the New Year and then asked the photographers to print them to at least one dimension as...
The Busath Studio and Gardens is a well-established installation for portrait and wedding photography in the Utah area and around the country.  Drake Busath, who currently runs the studio and the business Busath Studio and Gardens, continues the tradition of excellence in portrait and wedding photography that his father, Don, first started over 50 years ago.  Drake has been influenced...