Looking Beyond Locations in Landscape Photography
“A double rainbow, all the way! What does it mean?!” (Paul Vasquez, in a viral YouTube video of 2010) A famous pair of Greek maxims inscribed over the entrance to the Temple of Apollo at Delphi urged visitors to nurture self knowledge and to exercise restraint: “Know...
Your Hard-drive Will Fail… Eventually
4TB External backup drive and assortment of compact flash cards. Yes, I do still shoot intentionally at times with small sized cards! As Tom Keifer of wrote on a hit ballad in 1988, you “don’t know what you got till it’s gone”. You really...
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...
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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