In early December, Cliff Zenor and I conducted a workshop at Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge. It was my first trip there but Cliff had visited before. We had a small group of folks, all eager to witness and photograph the birds of Bosque. One thing we kept hearing from frequent visitors is that […]
I’ve decided to change my workflow thanks to the new RAW model in Topaz Labs’ DeNoise AI 3.3.
Sitka is a treasure trove for outdoor and nature photographers. And it’s also one of my favorite places to go. Here’s a summary of what we found on my recent photo tour.
My July Olympic National Park photo tour, co-led with John Barclay, was the longest Olympic workshops I’ve ever done. I thought we might run out of locations, but as we ended, I realized we probably could have spent at least another day or two in the area. The first half, based out of Port Angeles, […]
I’ve written about hyperfocal focusing before, here and here. Briefly, hyperfocal focusing is a technique used in wide angle landscape photography to maximize the apparent focus from the closest object in the foreground to the most distant. Using a high f-stop number like f/16 or f/22, focus at a specific point (determined by a number […]
I put together my current pc way back in 2011. At that time, it kinda rocked. It has 6 cores in a fast processor and plenty of RAM. The motherboard was fairly high-end, but not so high-end that I choked on the price. All in all, I put together a decent pc in my existing […]
I recently bought the Nikon Z6 mirrorless camera. I wanted another full frame camera and I wanted one with better high ISO noise performance than my Nikon D810. One of the main reasons I wanted the Z6 is for night photography. And for night photography I mainly use the Rokinon 14m f/2.8 and Rokinon 24mm […]
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