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 [...]

HDR Photography: Black and White

Hi Gang, there is a lot going on around HDR photography, especially with the advent of software packages like Photomatix (and others).  Much of the work I see out there is targeted toward surrealistic, super-graphic imaging.  That is a direction I have yet to fall in love with.  So, I’m sharing some work in two [...]