Death Valley and Split Neutral Density Filters

Hey Gang,
You’re probably happy to know this will be the last image from DV. It was shot in the Cow Creek area of the park, another salt basin with ground water seeping up through it, providing the visual juxtopostion that is Death Valley. The ranger told me that the valley evaporates 100 inches [...]

Death Valley Badwater Split Neutral Denisty Filters

Hi Gang,
I’m moving to the Badwater area of DV for the next couple of images. This shot was made in early twilight and with the significant (and sad level of air pollution sitting in the valley, the light was very blue. Both Travis and I commented when we walked out [...]

Death Valley Mesquite Dunes Singh Ray Polarizer 3

This week I’ll finish with a couple more dunes images then move to some different images from Death Valley. Then we’ll take a break for the holidays and come back strong afterwards with some new images, new video content and a new….?????
Technical: Canon 1Ds MarkII, 24-70mm@43mm, ISO400, f/13, 1/200 sec hand held, singh ray [...]

Death Valley Mesquite Dunes Singh Ray Polarizer 2

Location: Mesquite Flats Dunes, Death Valley
Technical: Canon 1Ds MarkII, Singh Ray warming polarizer, hand held, 16-35mm lens @35mm, f/10, ISO100, 1/500th shutter speed. Black and white conversion in Adobe Photoshop CS4
If you’re interested in the HOW of black and white creation in these images, email me and I’ll consider producing a short video tutorial on [...]

Death Valley Mesquite Dunes Singh Ray Polarizer 1

For this week and next I’ll be posting a series of sand dune shots. Dunes are a very mature photographic subject (they’ve been photographed a lot by really good photographers), but I hope you enjoy them nonetheless. All were shot in Mesquite Dunes in Death Valley.
Technical: Canon 1Ds MkII, 70-200mm, f/16, warming poalrizer, [...]

Death Valley Star Trail Photography

This image was made in Mesquite Sand Dunes. No trickery here, all in camera. The exposure was 40 minutes to capture the star trails. The foreground light was created during the exposure by taking my camera flash, walking around and flashing it. The light on me was made by Travis shining [...]

Death Valley Zabriski Point Blue-Gold Polarizer

Hi Gang,
I just returned late last night from a long weekend in Death Valley National Park. For the next week or so I’ll be running a series of landscape images from DV and I’m working on a new video tutorial on the use of split neutral density filters.
I’m not a big fan of desert [...]