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In photography, there are two types of focus. The first is a plane of focus. This occurs at the point where you actually focus the camera, and it runs in a plane that parallels the sensor in your camera. Then…
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The Best Inexpensive Tripod for the Money
The Best Inexpensive Tripod for the Money In landscape photography, you need a good tripod. You need it because, it keeps your camera steady and gives you sharper images. At the ends of the day around sunrise and sunset,…
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Lens Choices and Building a Photography System
At the beginning of the month I wrote about Winter Traction Devices for Photographers. In this newsletter, I’m writing about Lens Choices and Building a Photography System. Lens Choices and Building a Photography System Building a photography system from the…
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Winter Traction Devices for Winter Photography or Don’t Fall on the Ice!
I’ve been teaching winter photography workshops since 2006 and I’ve seen it all. I’ve watched as people lost footing and fell. I’ve seen broken tripods, cameras and lenses. I’ve seen filters break — including my loaners — and I’ve broken…
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January Newsletter: Travel Does the Photographer Good
As I write this, it’s -20 out and the wind is blowing close to 30 knots. It’s cold. What a change from December when the temps got into the 50s and 60s. And that was a change from November when…
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Fall Color in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park 2014
I’m starting to look backwards at 2014 in preparation for my annual best of eBook. As I did, I realized that I never shared the images that I made in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park last fall. I teach…
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Improve Your Photography By Finding What You Think is Cool
One question that I get on my workshops is: how do you know what to photograph? I’ve thought about this recently, because I’ve gotten the question more this year than in past years, and I’ve been able to simplify…
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How I Changed My Life By Not Changing My Life and How Photography Helped
Recently, I read about how a photographer changed his life. Basically, he sold off all his stuff, paid off his debts, lost weight, found a god, bought a van and decided to live out of it and camp and travel…
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November Newsletter: Waiting for the Conditions to Change in Photography
October was a crazy busy month for me. I taught many one-on-one lessons and then went out east to Tennessee and North Carolina to teach my Great Smoky Mountains National Park Photography Workshop. I photographed the park for two week…
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October Newsletter: Shooting the Lunar Eclipse
Fall in the northland went fast this year. The reds seemed to go from green to peak to falling off the trees in less than 5 days. The fall in the northland went slow this year. The yellows seemed to…