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, December 2, 2009 at 9:13am
To date, my digital specialist Andrew Johnson and I have photographed a broad spectrum of assignment based subjects. From hotels to jewelry to bowls of hot soup. It is not the bulk of our work, but does break things up a bit and offers a chance to peek into the world of what other people...
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Monday, November 30, 2009 at 9:02am
I’m guilty of tight compositions. It’s a by-product of the school of thinking that frowns on cropping and feels that a single image needs to be self contained and compositionally defined when you push the shutter button. It’s a school of thought I no longer adhere to, but won’t get into that subject right now.
When...
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Categories: Denali National Park, Interior, Publications, Technique, Wildlife | Tags: alaska, boreal forest, composition, denali national park, design, moose, stock photography, Wildlife
Monday, November 9, 2009 at 4:00am
Finding the all-round vehicle that suits multiple purposes, including photographic adventures, is not only difficult, but ultimately a compromise somewhere. I decided to own just one vehicle due to a proclivity towards minimalism (I’ll save breaking that rule for camera gear). In my search for a car there were a few important aspects I looked...
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Categories: Birds, Caribou, Denali National Park, Interior, Mountains, Nature, Technique, Uncategorized, Wildlife | Tags: animals, Birds, caribou, denali national park, foggy, great gray owl, landscape, mist, moody, raven, sunroof, Wildlife
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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Sunday, November 1, 2009 at 4:00am
What are the best night sky conditions in which to photograph the northern lights? It is a question that can be answered in variations, but I’ve resorted to the simplest answer…whenever the northern lights are visible! Brushing that comment aside, I really don’t think there are “best conditions”, it really depends on your interest. I’ve...
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Categories: Arctic, Aurora borealis, Landscapes, Nature, Technical, Technique | Tags: Aurora borealis, exposure, moon, moonlight, Technical, Technique
Monday, June 29, 2009 at 7:13am
This handsome little bird has a melodious song and in early June it sings it heart out on the tundra landscape. The little bird has an extensive range, spending its summers breeding in the arctic regions of Alaska and Canada. The “longspur” refers to an elongated claw on the hind toe, not quite visible in...
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Categories: Arctic, Aurora borealis, Birds, National petroleum reserve alaska, Public Lands, Technique, Wildlife | Tags: Arctic, bird, birds lapland longspur, National petroleum reserve alaska, turndra
Thursday, February 26, 2009 at 8:11pm
I left the world of direct, on-camera flash some years ago, and its a needed step to take for creative and interesting lighting of subjects. In the past, I’ve used Canon’s ST-E2 Infrared Transmitter (Or a Canon 580 serves the same function when set as master), which would trigger off camera flashes through a infrared...
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Wednesday, February 4, 2009 at 6:14pm
close up of snow flakes in Delta Junction, Alaska
Macro photography offers a view of the natural world not always seen. Fine details and intricate patters emerge, solid colors reveal they are made up of several colors mixed together, and distractions of the “big picture” vanish.
Close up of flower blossom, 100mm canon macro
There are many...
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Wednesday, November 5, 2008 at 1:00pm
I was recently asked why many of the photographs in the recent posts were shot at 400 or 800 ISO. Do they hold up well at that ISO or was I shooting them for web resolution in mind? To answer this question appropriately involves addressing a few issues. First of all, I want to make...
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