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Technique

Behind the Scenes- Hudson Valley Solitude

February 12, 2010 Photo of the day

(Canon 1Ds Mk III, 17-40 f/4L, 19mm, 1/8 sec. f/16, ISO 200)
It’s been a busy 2010 so far as I prepare for a series of workshops and seminars that begin tomorrow with the Adobe Lightroom Masterclass. It’s been difficult to find time to shoot lately, much of it due to a busy [...]

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How I Choose Papers To Make the Perfect Print

October 24, 2009 Craft

Ansel Adams once said “the negative is the score, and the print is the performance“, and for me, the print is what drives my motivation and all of my creative efforts as a landscape photographer.
I love this quote because it really captures my thinking process, especially coming from a music background where everything I did [...]

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LightRoom Plugins – Update

September 9, 2009 Photo Gear

I wrote about my  favorite plugins for LightRoom a while back, but since that time I’ve added a few more to my collection. So here is an updated list of my current favorites.Timothy Armes at the Photographers Toolbox continues to create more useful plugins, and in addition to the ones I covered in the first post, [...]

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Selecting Your Best Images

August 26, 2009 Craft

I recently wrote an article here titled Lessons of Editing about the process of separating your good images from your great ones. Since then, I’ve continued to work on my own workflow and the methods by which I try and determine which images are special.
Charles Cramer is one of my favorite photographers on many levels. [...]

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Back From Acadia

August 4, 2009 Craft

(Canon 1DS MK III, EF70-200 f/2.8L IS) 70mm, 1/320 sec at f/11, ISO 200
I’m finally back from my extended camping trip to Maine and Acadia National Park. Although the weather was quite “wet” to say the least, it was a great trip both in terms of family time and photography. I’m quite fortunate in the [...]

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Realistic HDR Photography

May 5, 2009 Craft

High dynamic range photography, otherwise known as HDR, has become extremely popular these days given all of the tutorials, videos and books I see more and more of on the internet. I’ve even seen other photographers denouncing hdr as though somehow it’s “cheating” or not worth the time and effort to learn. Yet as I’ve [...]

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