I had a blast producing this mobile photography video with Timberland for The Manual. It's a brief introduction into how to better capture and edit smartphone images filmed with Digital Trends in Portland's Chinese Garden.
What's in My Camera Bag?
Updated November 1, 2016:
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 currently use and why. I'll keep this post updated and...
Read MoreMy First Day With Google's New Pixel Phone
Our new Google Pixel phones arrived Saturday. Here's a video with my impression after using this flagship Android device for the first day. Yeah, the phone is amazing and it's camera is fantastic.
Here is a dropbox link for you to download a few full resolution shots from yesterday. These are straight out of the Pixel's camera with no edits.
Be sure to buy your Pixel phones direct from Google for the reasons I state in the video.
Must have accessories:
- USB-Micro to USB-C adaptor: You don't need to buy all new cords with these.
- Case: I'm using these nice cheap ones until Google gets it's nicer cases back in stock.
- Portable Quick Charge 3.0 Backups. Amazing deal on a compact one and/or a large capacity one. These will both take advantage of Pixel's super fast charging ability.
Here are some pics...
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Photography Roundtable Podcast
I had a great conversation with David Johnston in this Photography Roundtable podcast. We talk about photography, how I became a photographer, where the industry might be headed, favorite locations, and share some tips and tricks for capturing better photos. I hope you'll check it out.
Last Kiter Out: Sony A6300: 19mm, F4, 1/60s, ISO 320
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.
How can you access these videos? You need to be part of ON1's Plus photography coaching community.
RIGHT NOW MEMBERSHIP IS ON SALE FOR JUST $59.99 FOR AN ENTIRE YEAR!
Those of you who are members know that you get streaming and offline access to 100s of videos by Matt Kloskowski and I on everything from editing in ON1 and Adobe software to field technique training as well as regular photo critiques, private forum discussions, photo challenges, and topic discussions by us and frequent guest coaches. It's a really unique, vibrant, interactive and collaborative community. It's also a sweet deal and you can grab it here...
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.
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.
Watch it at 1080p HD for the best experience.
At Lago Torre, Argentina.
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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Lens Filters For Digital Photography
What filters should I be using? It's one of the most frequent questions I hear from new photographers and students. For today's modern digital photographer I've got great news. You don't need nearly as many as we did in the age of film.
When I shot film I carried an array of filters: polarizers, UV protective, neutral density, graduated neutral density, warming and cooling. Now with the amazing dynamic-range and color flexibility of RAW digital files I only carry the first three. Let's look at each type of filter I currently carry: polarizers, UV filters, and neutral density.
Circular Polarizer
The first filter I ever purchased was a circular polarizer and I haven't been without one since. They allow me to...
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