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Bosque del Apache Wildlife Refuge Part Five This post is the final in this series from a very productive shoot at the wildlife refuge in New Mexico. The refuge is a very target rich environment for...
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Stop Motion Video – Aloy Anderson Through the Internet, I have met an avid advanced amateur photographer/videographer named Aloy Anderson. Aloy is always pushing to learn new and creative ways to use...
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Let’s Talk Panoramic Photography – Part 2 In looking through my files for some examples of in-camera panoramic photos I came across some more examples I wanted to share. I feel the format adds another...
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Panoramic Photography – One More Time Here’s one more use of panoramic photography that I haven’t mentioned in previous posts. Change the number of Mega-Pixels in your camera. “Say what?” You ask? “And...
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Sunday Photo Art Quote – Thomas Jefferson I’ve seen this quote attributed to Tom although I’m certain it belongs to him as there are variations in place attributed to others. I try to research my...
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Live Entertainment Photography – Anthony Mazzella Black & White Many times if I want to check that I have a good solid image capture I convert to black and white to see how the tones do without the...
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Working a Scenic Landscape The light was fantastic. Scenery amazing. Time? Very short! I was on my way to a photo shoot in the evening and saw the moon just starting to peek above the horizon as the...
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Walt Richardson & Friends at Sound Bites Grill Sedona What a great show! Walt is known for his reggae music, but he is so much more. He’s a legendary songwriter with a big heart, and it shows...
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Working with Tiffen ND Landscape Filters Had a good time making photographs in Tampa with Rob Bird a couple of weeks ago. We were on the beach at Fort Desoto Park, and I was working with my Tiffen ND...
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Post Processing on the Portrait of Ernst One of the great pleasures of traveling to speak to photography groups is the fellowship with photographers. I met Ernst Ulrich Schafer while at the PPW...
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Lumix GH5 Post Focus Mode This winter and spring have been wonderfully wet in the southwest leading to one of the most wonderful flower bloom seasons in many years. With that said I have been chasing...
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Post Focus Photo Mode – Lumix GH5 Part Two Let’s look at some more examples of using the Post Focus Photo Mode (see part one here). The focus is all throughout the image. Detail works in this case....
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Turning a Simple Image into Something More Complex It’s always a push to try out new gear and push the boundaries a little bit. I was taking the Lumix GH5 out for a spin with the Leica DG Vario-Elmarit...
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Outdoor Photography – Walking Oak Creek Getting out into the open air in among the Vortexes of Sedona, Arizona is a great pick me up from being behind the screen of the electronic world in which we...
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Outdoor Photography – Walking Oak Creek Part 2 This is Part two of a four-part series on a ‘day in the life on Oak Creek’ while photographing nature and wildlife. Check out the first installment here....
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Outdoor Photography – Walking Oak Creek Part Three This is a four-part series. Here are the links to previous posts. Part one. Part two. When out photographing for the day the camera that is converted...
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Outdoor Photography – The Gear Part Four In part Four of this series on outdoor photography, I talk more about the why’s of the gear I carried on this occasion. You can see results from the shoot by...
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Set-up for Studio Photography – Product Getting good, solid lighting is the best thing you can do to highlight the features of products. Today’s post is how I set up to photograph some jewelry and a...
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Work the Scene for Best Results There is one error that I see repeated in photographers work that come to me for some feedback. Know what it is? It’s getting to a beautiful scene and not working it to...
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Working the Scene – Part Two A couple of days ago I shared some ideas on working a scene to yield more and/or better images from a landscape photography shoot. See that Post here. The post was getting...
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