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One of banes of digital photographers is dust spots, and unless you’re religious about cleaning your sensor, you more than likely have dust on it that’s creating dust spots in your pictures. Unless you train your eye to see these…
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Photography as Poetry
One of the big myths believed in photography is that every good photo must tell a story. I simply disagree. While a good photo may tell a story, not all good photos need to tell a story. I think this myth…
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Forget the Settings and Learn the Principles of Photography
For this month’s newsletter, I’ll discuss a few of the principles of photography. Specifically, the creative relationships between shutter speed and aperture. Over the years, I’ve attended a number of presentations from other photographers in which they discuss aperture and…
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Desensitized Color Syndrome in Landscape Photography
Before you start reading this essay, understand that all artists have unique approaches to how they tackle their artwork. In digital photography, I’m going to guess that 99%+ of professional landscape artists use some sort of digital processing for their…
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Quick Review of the Eyelead Sensor Cleaning Kit — Sensor Gel Stick
I hate sensor cleaning. The typical way that I do it, is to first blow the dust off the sensor while hanging the camera upside down with a Giotto Rocket-Air rubber blower. In theory, the blower gets off the big…
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How to Use Singh-Ray’s Mor-Slo Filters to Create Long Exposures
It must be spring, because I’m thinking of waterfalls photography and how to create that silky, soft look with water. If you’ve been following my photography, you know that many of my photos use that effect to even out the…
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The Full Moon Shot behind the Grand Marais Lighthouse is in Jeopardy
In August, the full moon rises directly behind the Grand Marais lighthouse if you stand near the boat ramp in the campground and recreation park. It’s a popular shot to get and photographers come to Grand Marais specifically to get…