Category: Picture
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Filters for Outdoor Photography: Polarizers, ND Filters and ND Grads Revisited
Selecting filters for outdoor photography has always been complicated, especially for photographers just learning how to use filters. In recent years, more companies have gotten into the market and the selection has grown even larger. In addition to that, lenses have changed. Almost everyone that buys a lens beyond a kit lens ends up getting…
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Low Level Lighting for Nightscape and Milky Way Photography
Recently Arches and Canyonlands National Parks have considered banning night photography workshops — these aren’t parks that I run workshops in but nonetheless I have concerns. While those parks still allow night workshops, they may stop allowing that usage of the park in 2018. In the meantime, the parks enacted a new rule that prevents photography…
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Best Photos of 2016
Even six days after 2016 ended looking back seems so long ago. In 2017, it seems like we entered a new harsh reality and the good old days where the world had your back seem long gone. Artistically in 2016, I felt stagnant. I didn’t have many breakthroughs and don’t feel like I pushed myself.…
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Badlands and Black Hills Recap
At the end of June, I taught a five-day photography workshop in the Badlands and Black Hills. Equal time was spent in the Badlands and Black Hills. We based out of Wall, South Dakota for the Badlands part and in the Black Hills we stayed in Custer. I lived for a brief time in Rapid City…
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An Amazing Night of Night Photography
Every now and then, you get an amazing night. In Cook County, on any clear night when the moon isn’t out, you get an amazing starry sky. If the northern lights are out, it can be even more amazing. That’s amazing + amazing + amazing + amazing = Super Duper Amazing! I had one of…
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How to do an Initial Edit of Your Images
You’ve come back from vacation with several memory cards full of photos, and it’s time to download several 1000 photos to your hard drive and try to decide which ones to delete and which photos to keep. The chore of deleting the bad ones feels hard, because you have an immediate emotional connection to all…
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Outdoor Photography Ethics 101
Outdoor ethics and outdoor etiquette seem to receive only cursory treatment within the outdoor photography world, and it’s time to change that. The problem is as more people have discovered the joys of nature photography, the cursory treatment of ethics is failing to reach the people it needs to reach. As a result, more and more violations…
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Northern Lights Viewing FAQ
Q: When is the best time to see them? A: It depends. They can appear at anytime and sometimes they only last a few minutes and other times they last from dawn to dusk. If it’s on your bucket list to see them, then you have to put in the time and stay out until…
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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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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, you’ll often get shutter speeds that range out into the seconds and there isn’t a good…