California is a large, gorgeous state with varied terrain and a large percentage is big, open, beautiful desert. There’s many places to go out to photograph and enjoy the fresh air. Regardless of whether you visit the desert during colder or hotter months, your body will need plenty of fluids.
Can you light paint, or illuminate, a foreground in our National Park system for your night photo? If so, which ones? Light painting Light painting is illuminating a subject at night with light. This can be disruptive to others. Or to wildlife. And it’s compounded if it is with a
People are hungering to get some outside time. Getting some fresh air while still being able to socially distance if necessary is particularly appealing after the pandemic. One fantastic U.S. destination is West Virginia. Below, I’ll offer a mix of natural beauty, unusual locations and parks with, er, slightly too
Welcome to Shutter Notes, our weekly community feature. Shutter Notes gives you the chance to get to know our community members a bit better. Each member will share a little bit about themselves and their chosen image. Frank Engelhardt is a software applications engineer with a passion for photography. He
California has much more than its famous coastlines. It’s a large, gorgeous state with the towering Sierra Nevada Mountain range, forests, glaciers and dramatic vistas. There’s many places to go out to photograph and enjoy the fresh air. Yosemite National Park There are two main ways to enter Yosemite by
Santa Cruz Island in Channel Islands National Park offers an opportunity to photograph unique animals and plants close to Los Angeles in California.
Much of Nevada is open wilderness, much of it gorgeous. This offers a great respite from the pandemic. Even if you are in a crowded metropolitan area such as Las Vegas, beautiful areas with nice fresh air, stunning vistas and old ghost towns are not far away. I’ve chosen a
Scattered about Racetrack Playa in Death Valley National Park are mysterious sliding or sailing stones, leaving snakelike trails behind them on the cracked dry lake bed, often for longer than 250 meters. How these stones — some weighing hundreds of kilograms — slid was a mystery for many decades. Was it from hurricane-like winds?
Category: Street Photographer: Robertino Radovix “Yellowstone” National parks often provide a surreal perspective at the world, and by combining the scenery with a human element, you get a very unique photograph. Robertino is able to capture a girl running during what appears to be a sunset. The mist behind her
Lightroom CC can stitch panoramas, and having this function at my fingertips has completely revolutionized the way that I shoot. I used to use ultra wide angle lenses to get more scene in my picture, but now I just keep my normal or even telephoto lens on and make a
OK … so not entirely true. But made you click, right? Sometimes I’m afforded opportunities to travel the country with a video production group and recently I was out in the Mountain West region of the United States: Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, Nevada and California over the course of 17 days.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=HDzPcbfX7eE] I wanted to share a video that I recently shot on HDR. It was a look at the shooting process produced with a friend of mine, . I went shooting at Great Fall National Park along the Potomac River (think George Washington and a boat). We look at the
