Living in Michigan, one of my favorite subjects to photograph is Lake Michigan. I regularly go out with friends to photograph our lakeshore, whether that be in places like Grand Haven and Holland, or Muskegon and Traverse City. What I’ve learned at the lakeshore I’ve been able to take with
I’ve seen Luminar Neo‘s RelightAI relight portraits effectively. However, I had not seen how it might work with landscapes, particularly ones with great dynamic range. Working with landscapes in shadow I initially chose this photograph from Iceland because of a wide dynamic range. Well, that and I love waterfalls. This
Before I moved to the Pacific Northwest in 2011, I had never seen a waterfall. I suppose you wouldn’t expect to see one in the middle of Brooklyn or Manhattan, where I grew up. So, you could imagine my incredulous amazement when one of my colleagues from my former employer,
(Editor’s Note: We welcome this guest post from Ed Wrzesien, an artist based out of Missoula, MT. His photography has been published by Simon and Schuster, the US Department of the Interior, Eastern Washington University, the University of Montana and Washington State Magazine. Learn more at resinstudios.net.) I recently acquired
Join Rich Harrington for a look at how quickly you can enhance a waterfall image and recover detail. Luminar 4 works as both an application and a plugin. Learn more here. Luminar is giving $5 for each purchase on skylum.com during the month of April to help fight Coronavirus and
One of my favorite things to do when on vacation is take photographs of waterfalls. When I was in Ireland, I couldn’t help but snap a picture at literally every single waterfall. And just my luck, Viewbug has an amazing course all about processing waterfall photographs in Lightroom Classic! Viewbug
What’s not to love about making portraits in front of waterfalls? Beautiful place, beautiful people, water spraying your camera, nothing going the way you had in mind — it’s a blast! When you photograph a bride and groom in front of a waterfall, you need that smooth water look. If
I’ve become a fan of Platypod Ultra. It’s got all the best features of the original Pro and the larger Max, and it fits in my back pocket. It goes everywhere I go from road trips to long hikes. I use it in airports, cities, and other places tripods just
Shooting a set of pictures with bracketed exposures and combining them in HDR software is the best way to record all the details in a scene, even in very dark and very bright areas. The software, like Photomatix, does a great job of making all the details visible. However, there
It’s been said that if you want better pictures you need to put your camera in better places. One better place to put your camera is where there are bridges and railings. These are usually elevated and offer a different perspective than we get from street level. Let’s take a
12You’ve probably had the experience of a client calling with an urgent need for a photo that you have in your image library (which, of course, is safely backed up using a Drobo or other RAID/NAS system). You’d be happy to help your client, but the picture is on the
I hike every week with my family, and I travel by air and shoot in other cities every month. You and I both know that using a tripod unlocks picture opportunities that just can’t be made without one. I can use it for super long exposures to blur the sea
