Landscape Photography: Giving Up #1

Today’s image is the first of three I’ll be posting as a series titled, “Giving Up.”  In early Octoboer, 2009 I left Saint Paul at 3 am to catch sunrise on Lake Superior in Duluth.  The forecast was for rain, it rained all the way up I35, then stopped in Duluth.  Then started again in [...]

Landscape Photography: Iconic Windmill

Hi Gang,
This the second of three images I made on my one day in the Flint Hills of Kansas.  This post is written primarily for the landscape photographers who follow my blog, but anyone interested in the creative process might get something from this post.  There were three key lessons I was reminded of in [...]

Photoshop Venice Beach Pier

This was a fun image to shoot and produce. On Monday I posted an image of the pier which is built on a single row of pilings. Because of its design, the pier’s full design from left to right could not be revealed in a single frame. I was a little frustrated [...]

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 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 [...]

Autumn Slap Zoom

Hey Gang,
In the Slap Zoom Video there is a short clip where I’m covering the lens and rotating the camera. This is a technique I’ve been using with my CANON camera, which does not provide a multiple exposure routine (like Nikon does (
This is one of many images I’ve created using this [...]

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