Oregon Coast Workshop
Birds of Prey Workshop 2012
Baby Wildlife Photography Workshop 2012
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Jun
Your Resolution
What is Your Resolution? I don’t mean to be a curmudgeon (that is not entirely true) but what is it these days with this unholy quest for ever-higher resolution? It wasn’t too long ago when we were pretty happy about a 2000 ppi scanner, that is until the 4000 ppi scanners came out. Read more
25
May
Make Your Images Pop – Using Software Plugins
Have you ever looked at an image when you got home and were sort of disappointed in the colors or felt the images was just sort of flat? There could be a lot of reasons and most of them are caused by exposure problems. If you are an Adobe guru with their Photoshop and Lightroom software you can do a lot of things to help fix that. What about for those of us that don’t want to spend the time to become expert with the software? Well there is a company call Topaz labs and they have a solution for almost all of your problems! Read more 22
May
Oregon Coast Workshop
I just got home from a wonderful workshop in Tofino on Vancouver Island with a great group of people. I was teaching with my pal David Middleton and both of us commented on how much we enjoy spending time with photographers of all levels in beautiful spots. Every time we return to a favorite spot we find something new to discover – usually through the eyes of the participants! Everyone of us sees the world differently – sometimes alarmingly so - but that makes each trip unique and exciting. Read more 22
May
Creative Photography with Topaz Labs Filters
I’ve always been fascinated by and enjoyed using Photoshop to manipulate images in to something that was more than the original photograph provided. In some ways it started with taking a bad image and desperately wanting it to be “good” and knowing that no matter how good my skills or the software became that pictures was still going to be trash. Well as they say one man’s trash is another’s treasure and so the fun began… Read more 17
May
Critique-speak
Over the last almost 30 years of doing critiques at my workshops I have come to realize that I say the same few things over and over again. It is not because I am unimaginative or at a loss for better words. And it is not because I don’t see some really great images every workshops (I do!) Its more that all photographers (including me sometimes) make the same mistakes no matter how long they have photographed or how many workshops they have attended. Here are my most common critique comments followed by a short explanation. Read more