2016 Nature Photography Workshop in Northern Michigan

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Michigan Photo Collage

Michigan Photo Collage: Mackinac Bridge, Point Iroquois Lighthouse, St. Joseph Lighthouse, Sunflower, Showy Ladyslipper Orchid, Sunset – Lake Michigan, Upper Tahquamenon Falls – Winter

I am home from leading my first nature photography workshop in Northern Michigan and I just posted information for next year’s workshop, August 12-14, 2016. I suspect this one will book full months in advance. If you are interested, let Winnie (the registrar) know soon. When we start taking paid registrations, she will send you an email so you have the first shot at registering. The workshop is limited to the first 10 paid registrants.

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Metering Daytime Winter Scenes

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Mount Hunter from a Bush Plane. Denali National Park. Alaska.

Mount Hunter from a Bush Plane. Denali National Park. Alaska.

Metering for scenes with a lot of snow can be tricky since the bright snow fools the camera meter. I see a lot of winter photos with gray snow, which means the camera meter did exactly what it was designed to do and the camera owner didn’t know how to use exposure compensation. The solution is quite simple provided you know what to do.

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Cold Weather Portraits

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Kristin

Kristin

When it is cold and breezy with the windchill in the 20s, do you stay inside by a warm fire? Of course not, not if you are a photographer. You go outside and do portraits. As long as you dress warmly in layers, you will be just fine.

Photo Data: Canon 5D Mark III. Canon EF24-105mm f/4L IS USM lens at 35 mm. 1/1000 sec,  f/8,  ISO 400.

POTD: Vermilion Lakes Reflection

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Vermilion Lakes, Banff National Park

Vermilion Lakes, Banff National Park

Vermilion Lakes (a string of three side by side lakes) just outside of the town of Banff, Alberta is a great landscape location. On this particular day the light was beautiful. Evergreens are usually quite dark in a photograph but the low side-lit angle of the sunlight was trans-illuminating the evergreens so they glowed a bright green. The lightly dimpled lake was just calm enough to give me a nice, slightly blurred reflection.

POTD: Double Arch at Night

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Double Arch at Night, Arches National Park

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.

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The “Score” and the “Performance”

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Kristin, Reflection. The "performance".

Kristin, Piano Reflection.

Ansel Adams, a classically trained concert pianist who became a world class landscape photographer, often said “The negative is similar to a musician’s score, and the print to the performance of that score”. Adams was right. Today we might say the digital camera file is the score and the work in the digital darkroom is the performance. The click of the shutter is an important step in the photographic process but not the end of the process.

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Nature Photography Workshop in Colorado

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Images of Colorado.

Images of Colorado. Photo information below. Click to see a larger version.

I am very excited about my upcoming nature photography workshop in Estes Park Colorado and field trips in Rocky Mountain National Park.

Saturday Workshop and Evening Field Trip – Sep 27

The Saturday workshop is a fast paced, fun filled, action packed day, combining intensive classroom explorations with several “go out and shoot” moments to practice the techniques you are learning. The Saturday workshop includes an evening field trip in Rocky Mountain National Park. The Saturday workshop and field trip are limited to 12 participants to allow for plenty of interaction.

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