Category: Newsletter
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Processing For Setting or Rising Sun Photos
May was a busy travel month for me. I spent much of the month out west photographing the Black Hills, Badlands National Park and Theodore Roosevelt National Park. While in the later, I ran into a few situations where I want to show a big sun rising or setting over the terrain of the park.…
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Where to Focus in Landscape Photography to Get a Sharp Shot
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 there’s depth of field. Depth of field is how much of the photo appears to…
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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 ground up can feel daunting and expensive. It’s hard to decide exactly which lens to…
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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 peak at the same time as the red and despite the rain and strong winds,…
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September Newsletter: How to Remove Dust Spots Using Lightroom
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 spots on your monitor, they’ll often slip by and become visible on your prints. If…
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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 probably evolved from the journalistic side of photography. In journalism, you want to tell a…
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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 shutter speed, and I’ve taught aperture and shutter speed in my workshops since day one.…