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Category Archives: Techniques.jpg) Sometimes to try something a little different it’s fun to slow down the shutter speed of your camera and pan with the subject to create an intentional blur to help convey the feel of motion in your photograph. In the case of the photo above you can easily see the blur from the motion of… .jpg) I recently had the pleasure of attending a Predator Safari with Wyman Meinzer. The safari is limited to four photographers and affords one the opportunity to spend a couple of days in the field with Wyman on one of the area’s beautiful ranches to call in coyotes, bobcats and possibly a few other critters providing… .jpg) As they say, “The stars at night are big and bright”. This is a photo that I took as we were wrapping up the first evening of light painting photography at Palo Duro Canyon with Wyman Meinzer. I bumped the ISO up on my camera to 3200 and opened the aperture up to f/2.8 to… .jpg) The photo above is a panoramic photo that I shot at Palo Duro Canyon State Park. It is a series of 5 shots that were stitched together using Photoshop CS6. I didn’t have any special panorama heads to utilize, only the Really Right Stuff ballhead. I was pretty pleased with the results as this was… .jpg) It has been very busy during the past week and I haven’t had a chance to post anything. So I would post just another simple image. This was shot during latter part of the day as the sun was fading fast. These shots are very easy to do. Simply meter off of the sky. From…  Sandhill Cranes make their way to one of the local farm fields at Bosque del Apache during the late afternoon to get in a bit more feeding before retreating to one of the local ponds for the evening. I was shooting in manual mode because of the change in the backgrounds ranging from blue sky…  When photographing birds, geese, cranes and waterfowl, don’t be afraid to experiment with photographing in the direction back into the sun, in particular with flight shots. Because of the translucent character of feathers you may be surprised with some of the results you’ll get as illustrated by the downward extended wing in the photo above….  Shooting back into the sun during the late afternoon can make for some dramatic images at Bosque del Apache. The biggest challenge is trying to single out a subject as there are so many cranes in the ponds. Making the photo itself is simple. Expose for the highlights. I some cases you may even want… |
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