Alger Falls Photographing Alger Falls requires a bit of physical maneuvering, to avoid the need to shoot through a grove of young trees. Alger Falls is located right beside highway [read more]
Photographing wildlife and those magnificent animal events. As photographers, we see things most people see only on television. We can all recount a story or two of scenes we’ve observed [read more]
Bryce Canyon National Park The hiking trails in Bryce Canyon National Park wind down and around the hoodoos, so that walkers are right up close and personal with the geology. [read more]
When I began to photograph, I thought a good portrait was the result of technical knowledge, intuition and luck, and if the gods of silver gelatin were smiling down on [read more]
As with many things in life, comparisons set an orientation for us. When you are presented with an opportunity to depict that in your photographs, it’s a special moment. In [read more]
I do not use the Dodging and Burning tools in Photoshop’s Tools Panel: I find them cumbersome, hard to use, ineffective and a bit destructive. Instead, I use a non-destructive [read more]
Image talk is a column where we analyze and celebrate outstanding images. There are many elements of design that can push a nice photograph into a special image that will [read more]
My favorite recipe for a successful nature photograph is to pick a well-known subject and portray it in a novel way. Pictures capture initial attention when the viewer can easily [read more]
Copyright © Noella Ballenger Very wet Red Shouldered Hawk – This was a really wet hawk early one morning. In the Colusa Preserve, early one morning, this hawk was just [read more]
Sometimes you get lucky. At our house, we don’t take a vacationor trip every year. When we do, we plan ahead. However, when you have to depend on Mother Nature [read more]
Overall of living room Each experience in life can teach two things–what to do and what not to do. Recently, I had an experience that taught me both the “to-do” [read more]
Part 2 (Return to Part 1) But this isn’t what we want, so we need to change this layer’s mask. Click on the mask to make sure it is active, [read more]
Here’s a variation to the edge burn using the “Multiply” blending mode, and also an effective strategy for local burning and dodging using adjustment layers. Last time I showed you [read more]
Now we are ready to do our edge burns. This should be the last thing you do to your picture, after you have made any local changes within the image. [read more]
Copyright © Clifford Kolber Here comes the sun! Everglades National Park is one of the most endangered areas of our national park system. As a native of Miami, I have [read more]
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