Dark eyed Junco at my feeder. Last week I complete two Master’s programs! I finished the requirements for my Master’s of Education (my official graduation ceremony is this weekend) and I completed the Master Naturalist course through the DNR. To view my research project on Photographic Literacy go to:www.photo-lit.com. Here is the second article in […]
Great Grey Owl that came to visit my feeders this morning. This is the winter that never ends. So far in April we have received over 30 inches of snow! One one good result will be the spring run-off which hopefully will bring the level of Lake Superior up. Last weekend I gave my
Photographing Night Skies Part II: the capture. Photographing at night can give you dazzling results, but your camera technique had better be spot-on! Using maximum apertures and high ISO’s are one of the techniques and as such require particular care in the shooting and post-processing of the image. In the last newsletter I discussed
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Photographing Night Skies Part I: the gear. Photographing after the sun goes down can offer some of the most exciting and yet challenging opportunities for a photographer. Night photography stretches the capabilities of the photographic medium, will most likely challenge the capabilities of your equipment, and will test the limits of your photographic technique.
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Exploring the MN North Shore of Lake Superior 6 Hundred Road Bridge across Temperance River This article is particularly written for North Shore foamers; those of us who foam at the mouth for a chance to spend time and photograph on the North Shore–and I count myself in that group. There is no better
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Tips for post processing Panoramic Images This article is a follow up article on Panoramic Images that I published in the March 2013 newsletter. If you missed that newsletter just send me an email and I will resend that newsletter to you. Post processing and stitching a panoramic image goes much easier
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Picking up where we left off on our last article. During my presentation at the TCACCC Spring Break this last weekend I promised to post the information about Photographing Natural Minnesota in this newsletter. The following articles are from that lecture. In this newsletter I will cover Tall Grass Prairie, the next article will
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During my presentation at the TCACCC Spring Break this last weekend I promised to post the information about Photographing Natural Minnesota in this newsletter. The following articles are from that lecture. In this newsletter I will cover the Intro, and the Aspen Parkland Region. In the next newsletter I will cover the Tall Grass Prairie
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Panoramic Photos; a tutorial San Galgono, Italy. There are times when I get to a place and I look around and think “Wow, this place is great! It seems like everywhere I look is something interesting. A single photographic frame can’t convey the sense of space or uniqueness of the place.” It is at
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Reading Your Histogram Frequently I am asked: “What should a proper histogram look like?”, and while I admit this topic is not exactly a party ice-breaker it is a topic of constant consideration for the attentive photographer. There is no absolute answer to this question: A proper histogram is one that reflects the tonal values
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