Landscape photography is my personal focus. It’s where I started out in photography and I love the hunt for a photo out in the world. But, very often my landscape photography is dissapointing. Based on the questions I get asked during my various workshops, the same is true for a lot of other people. Ansel […]
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Photography, WordPress, and SEO
The on going challenge of any small business is to attract new customers. A good discoverable web site is a key element in that process. With the rise of social media and The-One-Social-Network-To-Rule-Them-All (i.e. Facebook) many of us started to ignore SEO. After all, Facebook would drive enough traffic as long as we shared our […]
Star Trail: Shooting and Editing, Start to Finish
Photographing star trails involves a lot of complications. In this video I go through the entire process of photographing the star trail including dealing with light pollution. Then I go through an entire edit from start to finish. I edit the RAW files in Capture One, and then iterate through stacking the images in StarStax […]
Capture One: RAW File Storage Location
How do you choose a Capture One RAW file storage location? Capture One is flexible. That’s one of the things that makes it superior to the alternatives (also, it produces better results and is faster, but I digress). That flexibility can be a little confusing to new photographers and those converting from Lightroom to Capture […]
Bird Photography at Bosque del Apache
If you’ve never been, you might not be sure what to expect at Bosque del Apache. During the winter, from mid November through late January, it hosts huge flocks of migratory snow geese and sandhill cranes as well as many other species. It is an amazing place if you love to photograph birds. Check out […]
Looking At the Exposure Triangle in the Right Way
A student will ask “How do I pick exposure settings?” The question comes up during almost every class, whether it is milky way photography, bird photography, landscape photography or even a destination workshop. They don’t mean just choosing some “proper” exposure. Instead, they are asking how to pick one of the numerous correct equivalent exposure […]
Workflow: Using Google Photos as a Master Archive
A Google Photos master archive can be a game changer for your photography. Master Archives are a powerful tool for breaking out of RAW editor lock in, but they are also the key to unlocking your photos for easy use. A Google Photos master archive puts your entire archive of works at your fingertips to […]
Workflow: Setting up a Master Photography Archive
Sooner or later, every photographer finds a reason to split up their RAW catalog, change RAW tools, or even use multiple RAW editors for different projects. Even if they continue to use the same RAW tool, projects will start being split between catalogs, by year, or month, or project to combat the tool grinding to […]