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
Warmest Photography Gloves 2022
A few years back I did a post on the warmest photography gloves available. I’ll admit ever since being a mountaineering guide I have been obsessed with gear. In mountaineering circles, your life could depend on a simple piece of gear like gloves. Nowadays, it is more about comfort. Although when your car won’t start Read More
Luminosity Masks
Masking has taken on a whole new meaning with the recent masking features in PS and LR. It’s crazy isn’t it? Before masks we were using the ‘old’ tools to make selections, refine edges, and hope that things came out okay. But then the new masking features were introduced, and now I seem to use Read More
Workshop Image Review
As part of our workshops we always do image reviews. Sometimes these occur during the workshop, and other times this happens after the trip. We just returned from leading a Patagonia workshop, and we were so busy shooting and traveling we didn’t have time or a classroom to do a formal image review. Instead, Read More
Plane of Focus-What is really in focus?
Just walked in the door from an incredible trip to Patagonia, one of my favorite places to travel and photograph. We had an amazing group, wild and crazy conditions, and some photo opportunities I have never had in over 20 years visiting this area. We have been working with gauchos at various ranches in Patagonia Read More
It’s all about the light…backlighting.
Just in from Africa, had an incredible trip! 35,000 images, just so easy to hit the shutter on the Z9 and let it rip! We traveled to many different parks, and one of my favorite areas is the Okavango Delta. This area has plentiful water, and huge concentrations of wildlife. And it seems about every Read More
LensCoat revisited
Four years ago I wrote on this blog about LensCoat. LensCoat are custom designed neoprene camo covers for your lenses. Many people continue to ask us on workshops why we use them, and do we recommend them. We think they work well…there is only one time we may take them off. First, what do they Read More
C2C…do you know what this means?
All photographers know how much the photography industry is changing. It seems like every month there is new technology, a new camera announcement, or some amazing processing features Adobe introduces in LR and PS. Honestly I love this stuff, it is very exciting to see how changes help us be better photographers and creators. Shooting Read More
Series Playback Z9 Firmware 3.0
For all those Z9 shooters with the latest firmware 3.0,,,,this post is for you. Nikon added a lot of features in the latest update, some are harder to find than others. But for anyone shooting 20FPS and scrolling through thousands of images, there is a new menu area, Series Playback, that you will want to Read More
High Key Editing Steps
I have gotten a lot of questions about high key editing so I thought I would go through my workflow here. I’ll be heading to Africa later this month, and high key editing can help wildlife images in poor or high contrast light. There are a lot of ways to do a high key edit, Read More