Winter is a time of dormancy, rest, and recuperation before the coming seasons of warmth and growth. While it can be hard to go outside in cold weather, I still need to get out there, get shooting, and just continue to create!
My dronehas provided me with an easy way to just get out and explore, even if I'm lacking ideas for photography. With our first real good snowfall of the year earlier this...
It was April Fool's Day and signs of spring were everywhere. Ice and snow were becoming a thing of the past, the temperature was getting more tolerable and rain every few days meant more clouds in the sky. This day in particular I was rushing to go shooting for dusk as clouds began to roll in late in the afternoon. The sky was going to light up to the west, I just knew it. But with summer suns...
Well I learned a new term this January, "Polar Vortex." That's right, a vortex of circulating polar air that sat right on top of most of North American for over a week. It was cold. It was windy. It snowed. Did I mention it was cold? While I mostly tried to keep all of my appendages in working order, I did manage to go outside a couple of times to photograph. No, I did not make it out as many...
There's a couple of reasons why I love long exposure photography. It forces you to take your time. It softens elements like water in a way that makes them gentle and approachable. It also enhances the color of a frame. Even if the color of the scene is hard to see with our human eyes, somehow colors are boosted and saturated as the camera shutter stays open longer.
While on a recent shoot to...
One of my biggest challenges has been critical selection. Too often I will take dozens of shots during a shoot, completely enthralled by the light and compositions, when I really only set out to capture one or two frames. And then, back in the editing room, I struggle to pick out just a couple of final shots. Sometimes I'll come away with 5 shots that should really have been narrowed down to one,...
