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
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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
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