Category: Newsletter
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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 surface of Lake Superior or the ocean to carry the sky’s color throughout the scene.…
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What Happens When You Stack Filters? Is it sharp enough? Is the color good enough?
What a brutal winter, eh? But it has been perfect for photography. In Grand Marais, the sun rises over Lake Superior and it sets over Lake Superior, which is what makes it the perfect location for Winter Lake Superior Photography Workshops. And this time of year is when I start my first workshops of the…
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Photography is Curiosity, Creativity, Math, Science and Imagination
One reason that I love photography is that it combines many different engaging elements, including some of my favorite aspects of life: curiosity, creativity, math, science and imagination. While photography is much more than just curiosity, creativity, math, science and imagination, when you start to practice and use these elements in your photography, your images will…
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How to Photograph Boiling Water Turning into Snow
This month, we’re going to talk about how to photograph boiling water turning into snow. If you live in the cold northland, you’ve probably tried this trick before. You boil water, head outside, throw it into the air and watch it turn to snow. It’s great fun for kids (and adults) on a freezing cold…
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October Newsletter: How to Shoot Star Trails
Another September and another year is gone in Grand Marais. For some reason, I always think of the middle of October as the start of a new year, because in Grand Marais our summer season is basically when we make money. We have about 2.5 months to make enough money to last the rest of…
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September Newsletter: Basic Night Sky Lightroom Preset
August Wrap-Up August was a busy month in the Grand Marais area, it kicked in with Fisherman’s Picnic, then we had the Grand Portage Rendezvous Days and Powwow. That was followed by an extremely busy week for kayak guiding, which was followed by another extremely busy week of kayak guiding. And then, everything stopped and…
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August Newsletter: Slow Down, Do Something New
Wow! What a busy month (and weirdly cold). July has been my busiest yet. My kayak guiding company, North Shore Expeditions was busy, I did lots of portraits and wrote several magazine articles. There were days this month that I worked 20 hours straight just to get everything done. This summer in the northland has…
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July Newsletter: How to Create Motion Pans
Where did June go? It zipped by and I’m a little glad it did, because it was a cold month with lots of bugs and other than family portraits, it was a low volume shooting month for me. I did manage to get out and make some pictures that I like, but overall it was…
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Rear Button Focus
Most photographers shoot their cameras with the shutter release button set to control focus in addition to release the shutter. When you push the shutter release button down halfway, it focuses. The advantage is that with the focus and release on the same button, it’s easy to make sure that the image is in focus.…
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May Newsletter: How to use a Vari-ND Filter for Waterfall Photography
April was a whirlwind for me. I was in Florida for the first part of the month both on vacation and then kayaking in the Florida Keys with friends finishing up a three-year kayaking expedition. On the way back from Florida, I swung through the Smoky Mountain National Park, and when I got home, I…
