Adirondacks

Focus On Fitness and Improve Your Landscape Photography

January 18, 2011 General

Let’s face it, landscape photography is hard. However, I don’t just mean capturing great vistas, but the physical demands that you face, be it extreme weather, long hours on foot with a backpack, and the difficult terrain we must often deal with to get access to great shooting locations. Physical fitness and overall health has [...]

Read the full article →

BTL Podcast – Winter Gear for Landscape Photography

January 12, 2011 Photo Gear

This new video on winter gear and apparel for landscape photography coincides with the launch of the new Beyond the Lens Video Podcast! My plans are to produce a monthly video podcast where I can share resources and useful knowledge in a format that I believe offers a great experience for viewers. I have a [...]

Read the full article →

Photo and Quote of the Day – Buck Pond, Adirondacks

December 22, 2010 featured

Canon 1Ds Mk III, 1/400 sec @f/13, ISO 400, EF70-200mm f/2.8L IS, 6:38 AM “Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained” [...]

Read the full article →

A Great Year of Workshops – Looking Ahead to the Future

November 29, 2010 Workshops

I have finally completed all of the photo workshops in the 2010 schedule, and the final workshop was the Lightroom 3 Masterclass which I taught last weekend. We had a great group of students who asked lots of great questions and made me work extra hard to provide proper answers, but that’s what teaching is all [...]

Read the full article →

Beyond the Lens Photo Journal ebook – Issue 2

November 9, 2010 Photo Journal

I’m happy to release a new issue of the Beyond the Lens Photo Journal as a free e-book download in PDF format. Issue #2 includes images from recent travels near and far, as well as field notes, quotations, and camera info for each photograph. Hope you enjoy reading it, and I’d love to get your [...]

Read the full article →

Photos of the Day – Adirondacks

July 29, 2010 Craft

“Heron Marsh Trail” Canon 1Ds Mk III, 1/4 sec @f/14, ISO 400, 17mm (EF 16-35mm f/2.8L II) CREATIVE NOTES “Heron Marsh”: This image was pretty straight forward from a technical standpoint, and a good example where any mode except manual fails miserably to make a proper exposure. A careful balance between shadows and highlights is [...]

Read the full article →

← Previous Entries

Next Entries →