Landscape, Nature & Travel Photography
From the category archives:
Early Morning Shooting In Monument Valley’s Backcountry There we were, a fellow photographer (also from Los Angeles) and myself, at 5:40 in the morning one day in April 2009, waiting in the lobby of Monument Valley’s View Hotel. The native Navajo music playing over the lobby’s speakers filled the empty hotel lobby, and my fellow [...]
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Monument Valley is one of my most favorite places on this planet. It is quite a feat to find the words to appropriately describe this location, but in the next couple of blog postings, I am going to give it a shot. Few landscapes in the world come close to paralleling the mystical Monument Valley [...]
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The landscape of the American Southwest abounds with crazy and whimsical rock and geologic formations. There are rocks that look like pancakes (or UFO saucers), a Mexican sombrero, mittens, a mother with her child, and more. There is even a geologic formation just north of the Mexican hat that resembles a long gooseneck, scrunched up [...]
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In the previous and first post from this series, My Experience Using Singh-Ray GND Filters, Part 1: Introduction, I wrote about the so-called dynamic range problem in photography, and the various solutions that exist to overcome it. Graduated Neutral Density (GND) filters are one possible solution. In this second posting, I describe the filters and [...]
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The Dynamic Range Problem Most scenes that a landscape photographer would photograph contain elements that fall into one of two categories: bright and dark. For example, a landscape scene where the sunset is the main subject (like Snake River Overlook, Grand Teton National Park above) might include both bright and dark elements when photographed using [...]
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