A Brief History and the Rich Tradition of Oregon’s Landscape Photography
Crater Lake Showing Wizard Island by Peter Britt/photo commons public domain. I’ve often been asked, “Why does the Pacific Northwest have so many good landscape photographers?” Well, the scenery certainly has something to offer a landscape photographer and maybe part...
Some Thoughts on “Grit” and the Landscape Photographer
You’ve heard the term “grit.” It seems like it’s everywhere these days; from podcasts and radio to magazines, to pioneering psychologist Angela Duckworth’s bestselling book “Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance.” What is it? How do we get it?...
How To Fix Dreaded Polarizer Sky
Wide angle sky polarization before and after fix The circular polarizer (cpl) is one of the most useful tools in landscape photography in my opinion (FYI – I use Breakthrough Photography filters and I am one of their ambassadors but this is not sponsored...
From The Archives – Photographing Wildflowers for Impact.-Kevin McNeal
For the Photo Cascadia 10th anniversary, we’re revisiting some of the blogs you may have missed the first time around. With wildflower season in full swing I thought a photography blog about photographing wildflowers would be fitting. I hope you enjoy it and...
From The Archives – Forget About Dawn and Dusk
An afternoon of stormy skies and splashes of sunlight in Southern Utah I wrote these two blogs back in 2012 so they are definitely near the bottom of the archives when it comes to the blogs I have created on Photo Cascadia. Here we are seven years later with this...
From the Archives – Backpacking with Camera Gear Ultralight
It’s the 10-year anniversary for Photo Cascadia this year, and during this time we’re reposting a few blogs you might have missed the first time around. A few things have changed since I wrote this lightweight backpacking article, the advent of cuben fiber makes gear...
The 72 PPI Web Image Myth
We have all heard that 72 pixels per inch (ppi) is best for web or screen resolution and 300 pixels per inch is for print resolution, right? There are reasons why the pixel per inch resolution matters for print, but the 72 ppi rule for web images is a myth, although...
From The Archives – The Histogram One of the Most Useful Tools in Photography
Today I’m looking back on an article I wrote on using the histogram to help judge good exposure. It’s just as relevant today as it was a few years ago when I originally wrote it. The histogram continues to be a tool I use in every stage of my workflow from...
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