The Photographer’s Playbook
Your resource to becoming an adventure photographer
The Adventure Photographer’s Playbook is an e-book created by full-time photographer Dalton Johnson to help new photographers go from nothing to booked in the adventure photography space.
This adventure photography e-book goes over the business and what “making it” as a photographer in the outdoor space requires. Covering topics such as pricing, marketing, building a body of work, reflection questions, and everything you need to know to make a career out of adventure photography.
Updated: June 2025
Shooting for Vertical and Social Formats Without Ruining the Frame
A working adventure photographer explains why dedicated native vertical capture, planned deliberately from the start, consistently outperforms cropping horizontal images for social and vertical deliverables.
Composing for Scale When the Landscape Is the Point
A working adventure photographer explains the deliberate compositional techniques used to communicate true scale in large landscape photography.