Monday, February 15, 2010 at 4:00am
Some hate sitting at a computer working on images, which is a dislike I can understand in the context of time, and the value of time. However, it is this very aspect that completes the circle for me, and affords an additional layer of artistic expression to any given image. Do you think Ansel Adams...
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Wednesday, November 4, 2009 at 4:00am
The day the cell phone became more than a phone, is the day I started to desire one. The phone itself, is my least favorite part of the device. In a nutshell, the IPhone is a movement toward a micro computer, and as such, is host to an abundance of software applications spawned in our...
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Friday, October 30, 2009 at 4:00am
A few comments about photographing white subjects in white environments; in particular the issue of exposure and post production adjustments in Lightroom 2.5. Let me first state that I’ve always utilized an expose-to-the-right shooting style (you can explore that concept on luminous-landscape if you are unfamiliar with it). To summarize that briefly, it is a...
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Categories: Arctic, Bears, Digital Technique, Nature, Photo Tours, Ploar bears, Technical, Wildlife | Tags: alaska, arctic national wildlife refuge, exposure, mammals, polar bears, snow, Wildlife
Monday, September 15, 2008 at 12:00pm
For a landscape photographer, one must learn how to deal with the great variations in exposure value between the sky and the foreground. In the film industry, it has been called “sky control”, although one may want to control the foreground as well. Generally, the sky ends up being much brighter than the foreground, and...
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Tuesday, June 17, 2008 at 5:54pm
Nowadays, digital composites are everywhere. While editorial images should be honest and unmodified, there seems to be no limit with advertising and promotional works. We received a recent example of this when we got our copy of a Russian calendar featuring some of our polar bear photos.
Our photo as it appears in a Russian polar...
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Wednesday, May 28, 2008 at 5:44pm
One advantage of shooting digitally is the higher dynamic range compared to slide film. This allows greater shadow and highlight detail, bringing photography one step closer to what the eye is capable of seeing.
Sometimes, however, it’s still not enough. When this is the case, one option is to create an HDR, or High...
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Thursday, April 10, 2008 at 12:32am
I have long looked for a scene that embodied the mystery of the aurora in conjunction with the simplicity of wilderness ...
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Wednesday, April 2, 2008 at 12:45am
When printing from a digital source, sharpening is required for the most pleasing output. The technique we use may be familiar to anyone who uses Photoshop, but the degree to which we sharpen is often surprising. What you see on the screen is not what you see in printed media.
This is the original...
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Tuesday, March 4, 2008 at 1:11am
One challenge with indoor photography is shooting under mixed lighting conditions. The camera, whether digital or film, tends to pick up color variations in light sources with a much more dramatic effect than is noticeable with the human eye. If there is just one light source, the photo can be white balanced to...
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Wednesday, February 27, 2008 at 12:21am
A desire to maximize the quality of photos on the website prompted a marathon endeavor of re-processing and fine-tuning nearly all of our RAW format digital files. This was no simple task, and it occupied the office for weeks. Our tool of choice for this process is Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. It offers...
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