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Sizing Images Made Easy (Easier?) On The PhotoCascadia Blog
Sizing images for screen and print output may be one of the most confusing and misunderstood concepts in digital photography, which is deceiving because it appears pretty basic on the surface. Even after more than a decade of moderately hardcore Photoshop use I still find new ways to confound myself in this area. This [...]
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Anatomy Of A Sunrise
Have you seen the time lapse twilight and night photography of Terje Sørgjerd? In his film, The Arctic Light, he shares a gorgeous high speed chronology of extended magical twilight hours he finds in the far reaches of Norway. In the spring sunsets and sunrises at this latitude can last for many hours.
Not counting people [...]
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Available Light Images Podcast Interview
Wow, I have really neglected my blog this summer. I put it down to a combination of focus on other projects, writing for other blogs and the opportunity to spend some quality time with my family during summer school holidays. I have plenty of great photography content to share so I just need to get [...]
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New Article On The PhotoCascadia Blog: Searching For What Is Not Literally There
My most recent article on the Photo Cascadia blog explores the challenge photographers face in translating experience, inner vision and “voice” in a way that they still resonate within the static, two dimensional photograph. Ansel Adams’ advice to look beyond what is literally there and instead identify something from within you that draws you to [...]
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Trip Report: Photographing Oregon’s Owyhee Country
Out in the arid scrub and ranch land of Malheur County lies the Owyhee River. The Oywhee cuts deep canyons through the Owyhee Plateau, many with vertical rock walls that in places can be over 1,000 feet deep.
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New Article On PhotoCascadia: Canon 5D Mark II ISO Noise
Is it possible that ISO 320 could produce less noise than ISO 100? I have a new article on the Photo Cascadia blog detailing testing I did with the Canon EOS 5D Mark II.