You Might Be Surprised

We just finished our 4 glorious days on the North Shore of Lake Superior.  Great participants, great weather, great accommodations, great photography from all.   Wow.  What a treat to be able to do this.  THANK YOU to George, Chris, Marek, Chet, Gary and Sam!
I don’t formally shoot during workshops, but I’ll carry around my 5D [...]

I bet my HDR can beat up your HDR

I’m writing this post just a few days before I start teaching a landscape workshop to remind myself that HDR for HDR’s sake does not equal good photography.   Like two litttle kids comparing who’s dad is tougher, some photographers compete with each other to produce more graphic, more over the top HDR images with a [...]

Get Divorced!

WARNING!  THIS IS A LONG POST ABOUT THE BUSINESS OF PHOTOGRAPHY.  TO JUST SEE GREAT IMAGES GO TO BOTTOM OF PAGE.
I was on a commercial architecture shoot in Emmetsburg, Iowa last weekend.  Much to my surprise and pleasure two divorced women I met at lunch tried desperately to get me out to the local casino [...]

Rush City Grain Elevator

Yep, another grain elevator shot.  Whew, how many of these can any of you take?  Well, we’ll find out.  I’m going to start including a short video on my thoughts regarding the WHY of the image post as well as the HOW of it.  Today is the first of these.  Please feel free to post [...]

Santa Monica Pier HDR

Hi Gang,
I ventured down to Santa Monica pier on the last evening of my visit to Los Angeles hoping to photograph the ferris wheel, but was not happy with the lights on the wheel nor the amount of activity.  It was Monday evening, cool and slow at the pier.  I decided to move on and [...]

Minnesota State Capital, HDR and Gradient Maps

Hi Gang,
Today I’m sharing some images I shot recently of the state capital.  I’m separating them into 3 groups to discuss broad level shooting/editing approaches to each group.  Hope you enjoy the images:
Group 1: HDR – this group of interiors was pure HDR work.  Each image was processed with the HDR feature (vs. Exposure Fusion) [...]

Where’s Your Hamburg or Rolling Stone Tour?

Today’s post is about practice.  This topic is inspired by the book Outliers, by Malcolm Gladwell.  My good friend, Travis Bechtel, turned me on to this via another photographer’s blog post in which he wrote about Malcolm’s concept of 10,000 hours.  During my 12 hours of driving over the thanksgiving holiday, I listened to the [...]

Welcome to my New Photography Site

NEW NEWS Well, I did it again. I have a new site with a new domain name and for good reason. The short of it is a change of focus and a need for better SEO (don’t worry if you don’t know what that means). Those two simple sounding issues [...]

Landscape Photography: Beautiful Experiences and HDR Images

Today’s post title is inspired by another amazing photographer, Guy Tal.  In a recent post on his blog, Guy discusses the purpose behind his landscape photography,  “…you are there to make images of beautiful experiences. Make it a beautiful experience first, and you will have something to photograph.” Guy’s writing articulates  very well a message [...]

HDR Photography: Color Images

Hi Gang,
Following up on Tuesdays post of BW images, today’s post features a variety of color HDR images all produced with Photomatix Pro.  I’ve been experimenting with different light conditions, different effects.  For example, in the Mickey’s shot I definitely wanted to see what would happen when motion was introduced across three exposures and NOT [...]

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