Having just completed my second Japan Winter Wildlife tour for 2016, and taking way too long to whittle down my final selection of images, today I'm going to talk a little about some of the techniques I use during this editing process. Despite 2016 being an el niño...
This week is the last of a two part series to walk you through a selection of photos from my second Snow Monkeys & Hokkaido Tour for 2015. We pick up the trail on day seven, with one last Whooper Swan photo, before the majestic sea eagles, and a surprise visit...
This week is the first of a two part series to walk you through a selection of photos from my second Snow Monkeys & Hokkaido Tour for 2015. These tours are in many ways the highlight of my year, so I'm sad to see them finished, but the resulting photos will keep...
This week we start a two part series to walk through 24 photos from the first of my two Japan Snow Monkeys & Hokkaido winter wonderland wildlife tours for 2015. As you'll hear next week, the weather gave us some unique challenges on this tour, but as usual we had...
Today I'm going to walk you through a few tips for shooting images to later stitch together to create high resolution panorama photographs. We're going to cover two methods for finding the No Parallax Point which helps with avoiding parallax shift, as well as looking...
When it's not possible to get far away from home to a beautiful location, I love to just take a walk in the park with my Macro lens, and have some floral fun. Today I'm going to walk you through a few photos from a recent walk, and talk about how I take some of my...
I was thinking about hyperfocal distance recently, and wondered how long ago it was that I did my original podcast on this subject. I checked this morning, it was almost eight years ago now, so I decided to cover this subject again today. Much of what I said back then...
In response to a couple of questions about an image I posted recently, today I'm going to walk you through how I created a totally black background in Silver Efex Pro 2, using a recent Lotus Flower photograph. Here is the video. Remember to go full screen so that you...
After an incredibly busy and exciting February, I'm now back from my Snow Monkey and Hokkaido Winter Wonderland tours, and from today will release a series of episodes to update you on how both trips went. First I've selected 22 images from Tour #1 which ran from...
In working on preparation for my first solo exhibition in December, I found myself doing a few things that I thought you might find useful, so I'm going to share these ideas today, and I'll tell you a little more about the exhibition venue etc. at the end of this...
OK, so let's take a look at the five winning images for the August Assignment, each accompanied by a back-story from the artist. As usual we'll do this in reverse order, and remember that if you subscribe in iTunes you'll also be able to see the images in iTunes or on...
My new Canon imagePROGRAF iPF6350 large format printer was delivered on August 13, 2010. The first thing to note with this printer is it's big! Not huge as far as really large format printers, like the 44" or 60" models, but still, with the ability to print 24" or...
