Blurry Trees: A Different View Of The Forest
By Sean Bagshaw Many of the images you see on the Photo Cascadia website feature what I call a hyper realistic style. In creating these images we pay very close attention to the quality of light and use wide angle lenses with apertures to create razor sharp wide depth...
Photographing in the Forest
By David Cobb Photographing trees isn’t easy. In a forest, it takes me a while to get a feel for the composition I want. I look for natural corridors in the woods or pathways that can create leading lines. I search for interesting stumps, trees with character,...
Interview with Chip Phillips
By Adrian Klein The latest Northwest Nature Photography podcast episode is an interview with Photo Cascadia member Chip Phillips from Chip Phillips Photography in Washington. I have been fortunate to have become friends with Chip over time and asked him recently if he...
Combining In-Camera Techniques With Post Processing
Many aspects in nature photography come together to provide a strong image. All of the elements play a crucial role in the workflow leading from the initial act of taking a picture to the final print. To excel in nature photography, it is important all the elements...
Making Adustments to Just Part of an Image in Photoshop, by Chip Phillips
If you use Lightroom, Camera Raw, or something similar, there are many adjustments that you can make to your RAW image with the adjustment brush, but it is somewhat limited compared to the options that are available in Photoshop. I usually take an image as far as I...PHOTOSHOP CS5 VIDEO DEMO
By Zack Schnepf This is the first of many video tutorials and demos I plan to post here on the Photo Cascadia blog. I’m in the process of producing a series of instructional Photoshop videos for online and DVD lessons. I’ve also starting doing remote online workshops...
Simple But Overlooked Adjustments For Best Fine Print Quality
By Sean Bagshaw As a fine art landscape and nature photographer, one of my goals is to create the very best quality master files of my images that will produce prints with great detail, sharpness and clarity even at very large sizes. While the topic of how to create...
Following the Spring Bloom
By David Cobb I’m a flower person, I love photographing them and I love photographing landscapes with spectacular blooms. As I followed the rainfall levels in southern California this year, I thought there might be a great wildflower bloom. I kept track of the spring...
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