Category Archives: Photo Tips

How To (lighting),  Seeing & Thinking (process of analyzing a scene), &  Snapshots (info about a single image)

I’ve had an appreciation for wildlife since the days when Marlin Perkins gave us a play-by-play from the helicopter of just what ole’ Jim was up to down on the ground.  Usually, Jim was locked in battle with some aggitated creature like a crazed emu trying to “Jackie Chan” him in the face. Since those days, wildlife imagery has grown technically better with […]

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We often hear the anagram HDR, and think High Dynamic Range. Some people don’t care much for the image that pops into their head, assuming it’s one of those over-the-top highly processed images that looks more illustrative than photographic. There is, however, a distinction between HDR and Tone Mapping.  An image can be HDR and […]

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I love motion.  In my studio, I have chosen to photograph people who move — but I tend to freeze their motion using strobes. On adventure photo tours, however, I like to experiment with shutter speed and camera movement.  The downside is that you never know exactly what you’re going to get.  Turns out, that’s also […]

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Cheetahs, the world’s fastest animal, can run at speeds of 70 mph. These images were submitted by Ted M. from Santa Maria, CA.  Photo tour was in Namibia, Africa.   And here’s a couple more he recently submitted from the same tour in Namibia… springboks and wild horses found in the southern region of the […]

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