NASA: The Total Solar Eclipse Of March 20, 2015
The Great American Eclipse will cross the United States August 21, 2017. This is the best total solar eclipse in the U.S. in 38 years. This series of articles is your guide to the best information about the eclipse. As of today, June 26, 2017, there are three articles. More will be added later.
Watch the eclipse shadow cross the country from Oregon to South Carolina.
Oregon and Idaho. Click for a larger version.
This series of four maps show the path of the totality across the United States for the “Great American Eclipse”, August 21, 2017. The goal for the longest view of the total eclipse is to get as close as possible to the center of the totality path. If you are outside the path of totality you will not see a total eclipse. For more information, read How to Find, View, and Photograph the “Great American Eclipse” – August 21, 2017, my comprehensiveness guide to the eclipse information.
This is your comprehensive guide to the best information on the Great American Eclipse, August 21, 2017. This is the best total eclipse of the sun in the United States in 38 years. The path of totality will cross the entire country from Oregon to South Carolina. This handy guide will help you find a prime location to view and photograph the eclipse. Planning ahead is key
Simple DoF app for iPhone and iPad
My favorite depth of field app for the iPhone and iPad is the “Simple DoF Calculator” by Dennis van den Berg. It is fast, accurate, and simple to use. Best of all – you can set the Circle of Confusion (CoC) to the value of your choosing. In this screen capture of my iPhone the app is marked with a red square.
“The Bang Bang Club”
One good movie list deserves another.
If you want to know what conflict photography is like, I highly recommend The Bang Bang Club, based on the autobiographical book of the same name. It is about four photographers in South Africa who risked their lives to photograph the deadly conflicts during apartheid. Two of them received the Pulitzer Prize for their work.
Hitchcock’s “Rear Window”
You love photography and you love watching movies. How about watching a movie that is about the art of photography? Some of these movies are feature length films and some of them are documentaries about individual photographers or photography in general. The movies on this list that I have watched are very good. I need to check out the rest.
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John Morris, Capa’s London photo editor, tells the story behind Robert Capa’s D-Day photos, including the terrible darkroom mistake that ruined most of the photos. The high resolution video is best viewed full screen. You can see a contact sheet of the nine surviving negatives (ripped sprocket holes and all), Capa’s photo notes, and hear the story of the rush to get the prints back to the U.S. for publication in Life more. Fascinating imagery.
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Robert Capa: Normandy. June 6th, 1944.
June 6, 1944 was the allied invasion of Normandy, the largest seaborne invasion in history. 24,000 allied troops parachuted into France shorty after midnight. The next morning beginning at 6:30 am over 150,000 American, British, and Canadian troops landed. There were 10,000 casualties and 4,414 confirmed dead.
Photography workshop, lightning over Lake Michigan.
At my photography workshop in Northern Michigan we went on a field trip to Lake Michigan. Our goal was to shoot the Milky Way and Northern Lights over the lake.
Evening field trip.
It takes a lot of gear to lead a photography workshop. iPhone photo.
I’ve been in Northern Michigan for the last several days leading a photography workshop. It takes a lot of gear. Laptop, two digital projectors, video player, a stereo sound system, 16×24 display prints, loaner closeup equipment so everyone can do closeup photography that doesn’t have closeup gear, my favorite nature photography books so people can look through them and see what they might want to buy in the future as their skills increase, copies of my photography book, collapsible fabric 18% grey cards so they can do a custom white balance settings in the field, shutter speed charts, hyperfocal distance charts, three different exposure guides, and more. Oh, almost forgot, my own photography equipment.
Torres del Paine, Chile
This article just popped up on my iPhone while I was at Facebook. The article is from 2014 but it is still a great list.
The lab you choose and the kind of file you send to your lab can make a big difference in the quality of print you get back.
How do you pick a good online photo lab? How do you get the best results from your lab? What color space should you use for your digital files and how do you convert your files to the right color space? How big a print can you make from your digital files?
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It all started with a humorous post on Facebook that I liked and shared. Then it led to all kinds of Photoshop variations on Fark with some interesting detours along the way.
I get lots of photo questions and many of them begin with “What is the best . . . .” They usually come from photographers or someone who is shopping for a photographer.
Here is my list of “best of the best” of articles recommending the best photo gear, software, books, DVDs, calendars, online photo labs, and a whole lot more.
Posted Nov. 19, 2016. Updated and re-posted May 5, 2017.
Just a few of many Canon refurbished cameras and lenses from the Canon USA web site.
Do you want to buy a Canon DLSR and/or lenses on a budget? This article is for you.
Ocotillo. Big Bend National Park, Texas.
If I could go on a fabulous spring photography trip to the national parks of my choice, with no time limit and all expenses paid, which ones would I pick? Here are my choices, grouped by state from west to east. This list includes the favorites I have been to and want to go back to again, plus the ones I haven’t seen and most want to photograph.
Moon Over Balanced Rock, Arches National Park, Utah.
Are you planning a spring photography trip to some U.S. national parks? Where should you go? Which parks will provide the best photographic opportunities ?
Double Arch at Night, Arches National Park. Click for a larger version.
Bob, my brother-in-law, and I were in the Double Arch/Windows area at Arches National Park. As we made our way down the trail we saw two red lights in the distance. It was our guess it was the red lights on the back of two cameras, glowing in the darkness during long time exposures.
John Muir
John Muir was born April 21, 1838. He had a profound influence on how Americans viewed our wild lands and his influence led to the establishment of many of our National Parks and other protected lands. He was nicknamed The Father of our National Parks. This is National Parks week. Go explore somewhere this week, or make plans to visit sometime this year.
Here are photos from some of my favorite National Parks (and one state park) along with quotes from John Muir.
The tripod is at the camera location for the four camera GPS test in the previous article. Buddhist Temple, Keller Texas.
Over a period of time Google Earth records multiple satellite images of the same area. You can cycle through those images. You would think the same identical GPS coordinates would show up on the same location in the images as you go back through time, but that is not the case.
Wat Buddharatanaram. Buddhist in Temple, Keller Texas
I was taking pictures at the Buddhist Temple in Keller Texas (one of my favorite photo locations when I am in Keller) when it occurred to me I had four GPS equipped cameras with me. So it was time to do my first test of four GPS enabled cameras in the same location.
April, Oliver, and one very wobbly legged calf. This is a screen capture from the live feed video. Like countless other people this morning, I watched live feed video of the birth. Fascinating.
April the Giraffe, another live feed video link.
THINGS TO KNOW:
April is 15 – her 4th calf
April has never lost a calf nor had a stillborn
Oliver is 5 – his 1st calf
Screen Capture, April the Giraffe.
Posted at 8:56 am EDT, April 15. Two front hooves and part of the legs are out. Here’s the live feed video:
http://www.10tv.com/article/watch-live-april-giraffe-prepares-give-birth-ny-zoo-updated
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Great Egret. Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge, Fremont, California.
When I posted this photo on one of my Facebook pages, a friend posted this comment:
“I LOVE this egret photo!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Look at the right wing trailing in the water. How DO you capture these?!”
That is an excellent question.