Category: Newsletter
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April Newsletter: What Camera Gear to Bring on a Road Trip
This newsletter is a little late, because I was on vacation/road trip/kayaking trip for the last month and didn’t have the time to think about a newsletter/process images/stop to catch my breath. My road trip ended up being one of the hardest that I’ve ever packed for, because part of it was a vacation on…
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March Newsletter: Understanding Copyright and Good Photos
Busy and fantastic is how I describe February 2013. It was cold enough to form ice on Lake Superior, which makes this year better than last (the winterless year). It was still not as icy as previous winters, but it was good enough to get some great photos. February was also a busy month for me with…
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February Newsletter: Compositional Elements are Key
What and odd month that just passed. January came in cold, got warm, rained, hit the 40°s F and then dropped to the -20°s F. The shoreline went from ice to basalt to ice, and the ground near the lake went from snow, to clear, to ice, to snow — sort of reminds of the…
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January Newsletter: What to Wear for Winter Photography
It’s now solidly winter in the northland, which is one of my favorite times to photograph the north shore. The days are short, so shooting both the sunrise and the sunset is easy. The sun rises and sets over Lake Superior each day, and the ice on the shore changes daily which refreshes the look.…
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December Newsletter: Previsualization in Photography
With November come and gone, we northlanders have found ourselves in winter. In fact, I can tell you exactly the day it happened. Winter happened the day after Thanksgiving. On Thanksgiving, we took our visiting family on a mild fall hike up to Pincushion Mountain just up the Gunflint Trail from Grand Marais, and then…
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November 2012 Newsletter – Quick and Dirty Night Photography
It’s hard to believe that it’s November already. October went so quickly that I don’t even really remember it. At the beginning of the month, they wind blew the fall colors off of the trees and at the end of the month I taught a Night Photography Class at the North House Folk School. What…
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October 2012 Newsletter – Simplify for Wide Angle
September in the northland came and went way too quickly. Fall started early, then stopped and held off until the last week of September, and then blew away in the first few days of October. I’ve always thought that the last week of September is a safer bet than the first week of October for…
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The Grand Marais Photographer Newsletter – Compression from Lenses
August in Grand Marais was busy — as usual. It’s always busy in August, and it always seems that August slips away quickly. As a photographer, towards the end of August I really started noticing that sunrise and sunset became easier to photograph as they were later and earlier, respectively. It also got colder. July…
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Creating Water Swirls
One feature of streams and rivers that I like to look for are swirling eddies that trap foam. If you find a big enough one, a long exposure will create a circular design within the eddy that you can add to the foreground of your photo to create interest (see last month’s newsletter for more…
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Finding a Strong Photography Foreground
Finding a Strong Photography Foreground Landscape photos often need a strong foreground to draw your view in. A foreground is the element in the picture that is closest to you when you take a picture and is at the bottom of the photo. Something in the foreground should capture a viewer’s attention and, especially for…