We’re getting ready for three wildlife trips coming up, including one to Africa. We’ll be bringing all the latest gear and technology with us, so naturally we will get the shot…right? We hear this question a lot…how can I improve my wildlife photography? Or just photography in general. As good as animal/people eye detect is, Read More
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Photoshop/Lightroom Denoise versus Topaz Denoise
If you have been on a workshop with Cree and I over the last few years, you know how much we rave about Topaz Denoise. One click of a button, and your noise is virtually eliminated and sharpening is applied. Sharpening is the big one….any noise reduction also reduces sharpness, so you have to tweak Read More
Transform landscapes with 15 stop ND
Just returned from two weeks teaching workshops in Tucson, Capital Reef and Bryce NPs. Great folks and great photography all the way! Landscape photography was a focus of these trips, and we had some wild weather and clouds to make some interesting skies. One question came up during our classes; how do you create something Read More
I Menu versus My Menu versus Shooting Banks
One obvious advancement with modern cameras is the ability to customize the camera to your shooting habits. Anyone remember the venerable Nikon F4? Not a lot to change on that flagship camera, just load it up with Fuji Velvia and start shooting. Nowadays photographers are holding a computer in the their hands, with a lens Read More
Photographing the phantom of the North
I’ve been doing a lot of shoots for Nikon recently, including doing a story on my winter owl photography trip. I had only recently received the new 600m F4 Z 1.4x lens, and couldn’t wait to try it out in rough conditions. So I headed into a winter storm warning in Wyoming in December to Read More
Singh-Ray 20% Off SALE
Hope everyone has big shooting plans for the weekend! Cree and I are in search of migrating spring birds tomorrow. Singh-Ray has a terrific sale going on right now, 20% off your total purchase on their website. I have used SR filters for years, they allow me to capture images I would not get without Read More
Springtime Macro/ Bracket your lighting
This year is unique in the amount of rain the west has seen. And with this abundant rain comes superblooms of wildflowers. Arizona is already seeing incredible poppy blooms, and the cactus should follow. California should have a record year for flowers. And for photographers, that means some great spring macro photography opportunities. You have Read More
The emotion of light in an image
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