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Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Along The Amazon


Adventures astride the largest river on Earth

There he is again! I swung around in the skiff with my D90 mounted with a 70-300mm lens, shooting, zooming and focusing at the same time and coming up with nothing but a shot of churning whitewater...for about the 20th time that afternoon.

Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Watch Out For Blowout


Exposures In All The Bright Places • Traveling With Photo Gear •  Fine-Art Prints, Or Not

In the days of film, exposure in bright areas was always a challenge, and we’d constantly try to outthink the meter by over- or underexposing our images.

Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Read My Lips


Hippos have a bad reputation. They’re often called the most dangerous animal in Africa and are said to be responsible for killing more people than any other wild creature.

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Meditations In Black-And-White


A business proposal led to a new avenue of creativity

I recently had a client ask to see some images—black-and-white nature photographs for a corporate environment.

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Find Your Passionette!


“When you come to a fork in the road, take it.” —Yogi Berra

Take this shot of a seal on a beach in the Galápagos. The first image is the jpeg from the camera.

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Trying Infrared


Infrared, Inside Out • From CRT To LCD, And Even LED • 2X Or Not 2X • Separate The Pros From The Cons

What are the advantages, if any, of having a digital camera converted solely to infrared capture versus using the B+W 093 IR filter on my DSLR?

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Tame Your Dynamic Range


HDR au naturel • Hybrid Lenses • Pros And Point-And-Shoots

A neutral-density filter is used to darken an image to allow increased exposure time.

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Glacier Trekking


Iceland’s other worldly landscape is constantly evolving

Stepping onto a glacier brings you to one of the more surreal landscapes one can visit on this planet.

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Capturing Time


Not much is known about the ancient people who lived around 5,000 years ago in the American Southwest, but they left haunting expressions of themselves and their spirit world as rock paintings scattered throughout the secluded canyons of the Colorado Plateau.

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