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
Come spend a fun and exciting weekend learning how to take your nature photography to the next level. It is September 22-24 in beautiful Rocky Mountain National Park. Now is the time to sign up.
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.
Total Immersion Nature Photography Workshop
OSU – Mansfield Ohio
May 6, 2016 – 9:00 am to 8:00 pm
I am excited. My nature photography workshop in Ohio is next month.
Come spend a fun, exciting, action-packed day learning how to take your photography to the next level. In the intensive classroom explorations you will learn the steps that make the difference between ordinary snapshots and extraordinary images. Minutes later you will be practicing those steps with your own camera. Learn the secrets of the pros and apply their tips and techniques to create your own eye-popping images.
Ansel Adams at work in Yosemite Valley.
The transcript of the PBS documentary Ansel Adams: American Experience.
This is a much earlier date for this workshop than in prior years. We are only seven weeks away and this workshop is filling up fast. Register now and come spend a fun and exciting weekend learning how to take your nature photography to the next level. The weekend is May 26-28, 2017 at Park of the Pines on beautiful Lake Charlevoix in northern Michigan with an optional all day field trip to Michigan’s U.P. on Monday, May 29.
California Poppies
There are times when iPhones can take great photos. Lots of light and the need for a semi-wide angle lens are ideal.
DSLR (left) vs iPhone (right)
Every once in a while I am asked if smartphones are replacing DSLRs. The answer varies with the photographer but for many photographers the answer is no. This pair of photos says it all. There are still some things smartphones just can’t do, at least not right now.
The last issue of Popular Photography, March/April 2017.
This is a sad day. After 80 years of publication Popular Photography magazine is closing. The March/April issue that arrived in my mailbox will be the last. No new content will be added to the PopPhoto.com web site after March 10.
Anoush, tone mapped
Ansel Adams often said “The negative is similar to a musician’s score, and the print to the performance of that score.” Over a period of years he would take the same negative and print it in several different ways, giving the negative a new and different performance.
Legendary Brooklyn based photographer George Pitts passed Saturday, March 4, 2017 after a prolonged illness. While he was not famous with the general public, he was an icon in the photography world and much loved by those who worked with him. He was the founding Director of Photography at Vibe magazine. He was an assistant professor of photography at Parsons School of Design, and be became the Directory of Photography at Life magazine in 2004. His work appeared in The New York Times Magazine, New York Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, Vice, The Paris Review, and other publications.
Underwater Photographer of the Year 2017: Dancing Octopus by Gabriel Barathieu
This is the grand prize winning photo.
“The Rocky Mountains, Lander’s Peak” by Albert Bierstadt
That’s right, you can download works of art to your hearts content and use them any way you want from personal projects to commercial work for sale. If you want to put a photo of your great aunt Harriet in a Bierstadt painting and sell it on the internet, feel free.
Every NYT front page since 1852 from Josh Begley on Vimeo.
The first front page photograph appeared in 1910 and the first color photograph in 1997.
Ansel Adams
1936 was a turning point in the life and career of Ansel Adams. It was also a time of emotional crisis.
Posted Feb. 25, 2017. Updated Dec. 14, 2017.
Ansel Adams, Grand Canyon, animated gif.
You can create an animated gif online without needing any special software on your computer. The site is GifCreator and it is free to use. Such a deal! I used it to create the above animated gif for an article I wrote a couple of days ago.
Ansel Adams at the Piano II , Carmel, 1982
Ansel Adams is arguably the best known American landscape photographer. Not so well known is that he was a talented and classically trained concert pianist. Were it not for some interesting and seemingly random events in his life he could have spent his life on the concert stage.
Posted Feb. 24, 2017. Updated Dec. 15, 2017.
Snowy Owl
It is not too late to photography Snowy Owls in the far northern United States.
Portrait of Ansel Adams at Point Lobos by Martha Casanave
Ansel Adams, Grand Canyon, before and after 30 seconds of digital processing.
Thanks to the U.S. National Archives, you to can work with Ansel Adams own negatives in your digital darkroom.
Ansel Adams, Grand Canyon National Park
The U.S. National Archives decided to make available over 200 of the high resolution public domain photos taken by Ansel Adams. You can download them here.
Ansel Adams: Yosemite and the Range of Light.
Marc Silber interviews Michael Adams, son of Ansel Adams, in Ansel’s home and workroom/darkroom. They discuss Adams’ book Yosemite and the Range of Light. “The Range of Light” is the phrase John Muir used to describe the Sierra Nevada. Some video footage of Ansel Adams is included. Watch and learn.
Ansel Adams: Half Dome, Merced River, Winter. © Ansel Adams Publishing rights Trust
I have no idea when I was first entranced by the photos of Ansel Adams. There is a wonderful, luminous quality to his work. Small wonder he is America’s best known landscape photographer. Collections of his work would make a worthy addition to any photographer’s library. This is also the time of year that Ansel Adams calendars pop up like snowstorms.
Ansel Adams, “Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico”
Contrast is a matter of personal taste. A classic illustration of this is the way Ansel Adams interpreted his negatives when he made prints, and how that changed over time. Adams often said “The negative is similar to a musician’s score, and the print to the performance of that score.”
THIS VIDEO IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE. I WILL TRY AND FIND IT AT ANOTHER LINK.
A classically trained musician, Ansel Adams thought of his negatives as the score and his work in the darkroom as the performance. He would “interpret” his negatives differently, “dodging” and “burning” during the printing process to create a more dramatic image. In this short video you get to watch the master at work.
Ansel Adams in front of “Monolith: The Face of Half Dome, 1927”. Photographed in his home Dec. 2, 1980.
Ansel Adams was born February 20, 1902. He is “the” icon of American landscape photography. Trained as a concert pianist, his love of photography and time spent in Yosemite National Park led him to a career change.
Wat Buddharatanaram, Buddhist Temple, Keller Texas
If you want to look at the metadata embedded in online photos, including GPS coordinates, this is an excellent online viewer. And it is simple. Just grab the URL for an online photo, drop it into the URL box on Jeffrey’s site, verify you aren’t a robot, and then check out the tons of metadata (check out the examples below). This is the most comprehensive metadata viewer I have found.
Aerial Photo Before and After Processing
Thanks to atmospheric haze, aerial photos usually don’t look very good right out of the camera. The fastest, simplest, and best way to fix your aerial photos is with Adobe Camera Raw (ACR). If you don’t have ACR there are other good options in your favorite image editing software. They won’t be as fast but they will get the job done. This article shows you how.
Rachel before and after a levels correction.
Levels is a powerful tool and relatively simple to learn. Levels provides a quick, simple, and effective way to correct basic exposure problems. This tutorial will show you how to adjust the exposure of your images with levels.
Aerial Photo of the Southern Utah Desert: Before and After ACR
Photos from a commercial jet don’t look very good right out of the camera because you are seven miles off the ground. You are usually shooting through seven miles of atmospheric haze, even on a relatively clear day. If you are flying on a hazy day it is going to be even worse. Fortunately, you can save many of your aerial photos with a quick fix in Adobe Camera Raw (ACR).
Originally posted Feb. 12, 2017. Updated Feb. 17, 2017.