Category Archives: Technique

Mystery Abstract Revealed & Wildlife Lighting Tip

Mystery Abstract Revealed So I had multiple guess on what this mystery abstract is: Guesses ranged from pine cone to metallic chicken.  I can see how the sheen could lead someone to believe it’s metallic.  But leave it to one of my high school classmates (proudly raised farm girl I might add) to guess it…

Why To Use Long Exposure Noise Reduction

A late afternoon tweet from a friend on the east coast snapped to to attention: 2010 Perseid Meteor Shower was peaking tonight!  That was Thursday afternoon…denying the fact that I had a morning meeting in San Francisco on Friday, I headed out at 11:30pm Thursday night to the closest dark spot I know of to…

Magnetic Glow (Zoom Effect)

Over the holiday’s I discovered this rural chapel in a small unincorporated area near my parents in Central Wisconsin. Lucky for me, I was driving down a back road after sunset and noticed the chapel all lighted up just off the road. The front of the Chapel had a back lighted cross that I thought…

Reviewing Photo Composition

Tonight on the train ride home from San Francisco, I was working on a some photos from my recent trip to the Redwoods. The first day of that trip found me in Eureka where I was able to get up early to catch sunrise over Humboldt Bay. Tonight, I was focused on four photos that…

Starlight Redwoods

This past weekend my wife and I got out of town and head to Northern California for some camping and hiking in the Humbold Redwood State Park.  The goals of the weekend were simple: enjoy some much needed time together, explore this State Park that we have wanted to visit for years, and make some…

HDR And Our Expectations of Photography

This topic has been burning a hole in my head or the past two weeks. And I get a gentle reminder every few days in the form of another comment arriving in my inbox. Back around the 4th of July holiday, Mark Graf had a posting about some playing with HDR he was doing. He…

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