This week Matt Kloskowski and I will be covering a ton of advanced printing tips and techniques every day at the ON1 Plus coaching site. It's a fun community of passionate photographers learning together. If you're not already a member then please consider joining up. The video above lays out the schedule for this week's print training. Learn more about how to take part.
What To Do When a Shoot Goes Haywire
The kitesurfing trip that wasn't:
Last month Stacey, some friends and I took kitesurfing gear, photography equipment, and 6-week-old baby Pike to South Texas to kite and photograph in warm water for 10 days. I'll get it right out of the way. This trip did not go as planned, but we had a blast anyway.
What went wrong? The weather. This time of year South Padre Island generally gets nice steady warm wind from the south along with lots of sunshine. The first day on the island was perfect and we all kited until we lost the light to a magnificent sunset. As I landed my kite, I grabbed my little Sony A6300 mirrorless camera out of the rental van's console and...
Read MoreTime & Shutter Speed: from My Landscape & Travel Series
This video is one of a much larger video series course on landscape and travel photography that I created for the ON1 Plus photography community. The course has 14 videos covering everything from photography basics to time-lapse and HDR capture and runs over 5 hours of content.
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New Prints
I just uploaded some new images to the Print Gallery. I recommend getting the wall art versions printed directly on aluminum and ready to hang. The prints come to life in that dye-sublimation process and the presentation is so clean and sharp.
Gearing Up: South Padre Island with Pike
This Tuesday Stacey, Pike, a few friends and I head out for a Kitesurfing and photo adventure on South Padre, a barrier island just off Texas. It's a place with warm water and steady wind. At seven weeks old it's Pike's first big trip and I'm stoked to capture not just landscape and action photos, but also of to document his first beach island experience. How much gear do we need for this? We made this one minute video to highlight the challenge of packing for air travel with photo gear, kite gear and Pike's accessories. I'll be posting on Facebook and Instagram along the way.
Fast and Light: Skiing & Photographing Mount Saint Helens 2016
Join me and some northwest friends for a spring backcountry-ski and split-board trip up 5,800 feet to the crater rim of Mount Saint Helens. In this five minute video I cover the camera gear I carry for this kind of fast-and-light photo/video adventure and how I carry it to both protect my gear and maximize accessibility. I also briefly discuss my approach to photographing fast moving action such as snow-sports.
I keep getting the question, "what about the baby?" I had to discourage Stacey from carrying Pike part way up on snowshoes because of the weather, but we did take him kiteboarding on the coast last week. ;-)
Gear: Below is a list of links to the photo/video equipment I carried on this trip.
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Read MoreVideo Training: Composite Focus Blending (Stacking) for Landscape Photography
Keep your landscapes razor sharp in lower light with wider apertures. Watch this tutorial to see how I capture a low-light Patagonian landscape image in multiple frames at varying focus settings and then RAW process, composite blend, and finish edit the scene into a single, tack-sharp image. This video tutorial is aimed at the intermediate to advanced landscape photographer.
Pike Gilman Henry
I've been a bit quiet on the Blog and social media of late, but I've got a great excuse. On February 20th (Ansel Adams' Birthday) Stacey and I had our first child. A strong, healthy boy named Pike Gilman Henry. We have been spending countless hours since just marveling at his existence. We can't wait to show him how amazing the world is. For now here's a few photos...
2015: What Photo Gear Is In My Bag?
I am often asked what camera gear I carry on my adventures. The answer really depends on where I'm going and what I'm looking to accomplish. If I'm shooting candid travel scenes in a crowded urban area, I'm going to take a different setup than I'd pack for an expedition or a commercial location shoot. Here is a description of what I regularly carry for travel photography and why.
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