In the not so distant past I used to shoot slide film exclusively… One of the last all film trips I took was a winter trip to Yosemite a few years ago. For some reason I’m attracted to the pre-dawn light that adds to the magical nature of Yosemite valley. Long film exposures were always a fun challenge and combined with this pre-dawn light Velvia would really create a beautifully colored scene. As youR
It’s not too often that you come across a new technology that makes your mouth drop open. Raoul Pop pointed me to a video demonstration of Content-Aware Image Sizing Demo by Dr. Ariel Shamir (YouTube). I highly recommend taking a look at this. In short software has been written that allows for images to be “retargeted” or “resized while adapting image content and layout”. The cool thing
The ninth episode of EXIF and Beyond has been released. In this episode (part I of II) professional photographer Gary Crabbe (enlightphoto.com) discusses a variety of topics including his photographic beginnings, working for Galen Rowell, his personal photographic philosophies, mastery of light, and the art of seeing. Download the latest episode: Gary Crabbe Interview (Part I) For the non-iTune listeners a streaming
This image is a little off the beaten path from what I normally display on my blog, namely landscape and nature photography, but it fit a photo blog project “Blown Away” that is going on at Brian Auer’s blog. This photo was taken as an early experiment with my, then new, macro lens.
Normally I don’t focus on gear, but because I’ve been waiting for news of the next generation of Canon 1Ds this leak (Thanks Amazon.com) is of particular interest to me. Canon’s 21.1 megapixel EOS 1Ds Mark III: thanks, Amazons – Engadget.com Note: Amazon pulled the leaked pages, but Engadget.com has some screen captures. After using the 1Ds Mark II (16 megapixels), thanks to some generous frie
Just the other day I rediscovered a batch of photos from Kauai, Hawaii that I never got around to processing. It was a pleasant surprise to find these images not just because they came out well, but because of the great memories behind them. Up very early I caught this scene just before getting into my car to drive to a Na Pali coast boat tour. The day as a whole was quite beautiful and now seeing this photo along wi
One of the longest standing challenges facing photographers has been working with photographic media that inherently has a lower dynamic range than what we, the photographer, see with our own eyes. This challenge has spurred a lot of innovative solutions enabling photographers to push film and digital media to their limit. These innovations have included various darkroom techniques for film, graduated neutral density
With wildlife photography luck is always part of the equation, but you never know how or when it will come into play. While in the Arctic last summer I had the good fortune of photographing an Arctic Hare that was resting in the shade to avoid both the sun and predators. Although the hare was stationary its ears were twitching in order to keep a small swarm of mosquitoes from biting these blood rich organs. I only to