I recently spoke to a photo club via zoom on various topics in photography, including stressing a lot about light and emotion. In my opinion, you need both for a great image. Obviously we need light in a photograph because the medium requires light to exist….’drawing or painting with light’. But what about emotion? Let’s Read More
Droplet Collision Photography
I recently shot some work for Nikon, this time focusing on macro photography. The first shoot/article is now posted on Nikon Learn and Explore and focuses on water droplet collision photography. I’ve always been interested in many areas of photography, the medium is so diverse! Action sports, landscapes, portraits, travel, wildlife and macro are all Read More
A special Singh-Ray Filter for sunsets/sunrises.
I recently returned from Easter Island. Cree and I were leading a photo workshop there, and the photography was incredible. Easter Island is hard to get to, but the experience is magical. Thankfully the island had not changed much after my first visit more than ten years earlier. We photographed a lot of ocean sunsets Read More
Is AI ruining photography?
I normally don’t weigh in on topics like this, but I have been getting some emails about it, so I will throw in my ten cents worth. If you have watched the internet photo blogs recently you might have heard about the AI generated landscape image that won an Australian photo contest. The image was Read More
Nikon Z9: 1 year, 350,000 images later…
Good things are happening at Nikon right now. They continue to bring innovative, game changing photography equipment to the market. Just take a look at my blog posts from the last year highlighting the lenses and cameras they have introduced. Two new wildlife/sports lenses, the 400mm F2.8 and 600mm F4 Z with built in teleconverters, Read More
Best Safari Clothes
Cree and I lead photo workshops each year to Africa, and this year we are headed to Tanzania. Africa has a way of growing on you…you just always keep coming back. And similar to other destinations we photograph, safaris have some specific clothes that will make your trip more enjoyable. My first rule of fashion Read More
What “intersect with” means in masking
We just finished teaching an online masking class, and participants had a lot of good questions. But by far the biggest confusion came from what does ‘intersect with subject” or any other mask really do? And is it really necessary? The new masking features in LR and PS have changed workflow for about every photographer Read More
The New Complete Guide to Hummingbird Photography
Bird photography has really gotten popular in the last few years, and one aspect of bird photography that interests many photographers are hummingbirds. There is just something about those colorful, energetic birds that fascinate people. Cree and I always look forward to our next hummingbird photography trip! But if you have photographed hummingbirds, you know Read More
Avoiding Steel-eye with bird flash photography
I just returned from an incredible bird photography trip to Ecuador. Cree and I were putting the finishing touches on our future Ecuador workshops…if you like to photograph birds, you will want to go on this workshop. We stayed at a hotel high in the cloud forest, and literally had hundreds of hummingbirds at the Read More
Nikon 600mm F4 Z with 1.4x review
With all the incredible new camera gear hitting the market, you hear words like game changer, revolutionary, innovative and ‘dreamy’ a lot. I know I have used a number of them. Well, the new Nikon 600mm F4 Z with built-in 1.4x is worthy of them all. I’ve owned a number of Nikon 600mm F4 lenses Read More