Pictures of the landscape genre
For a landscape photographer, one must learn how to deal with the great variations in exposure value between the sky and the foreground. In the film industry, it has been called “sky control”, although one may want to control the foreground as well. Generally, the sky ends up being much brighter than the foreground, and…
Autumn has peaked in Fairbanks, which is a season I think passes way too quickly. An unusually warm few weeks in September has not even produced a frost near my home. Soon, any strong wind will be defoliating the golden yellow-leafed trees in an instant. I grabbed this shot on my way to town one…
Aerial of Little Delta river and Mount Hayes of the Alaska range.Canon 1Ds Mark III, 70-200mm 2.8L IS, (170mm) 1/400 sec @ f3.5, ISO 400 Aerial photography seems to be a never ending learning endeavor. Perhaps this is so because conditions almost always push the limits of camera’s, every aircraft is different in nuance, and…
Raven in the mist, Denali National Park, Alaska. Canon 1Ds Mark III, 500mm f4L IS, 1/640 sec @ f/4, ISO 400 While waiting on a hilltop in Denali Park, I watched and waited as fog moved through the boreal forest shortly after sunrise. The angle of light was still low enough for good shadows. After…
Caribou traverse a mountain ridge in the Alaska range, Denali National park, Alaska.Canon 1Ds Mark III, 500mm f4L IS, 1/1000 sec @ f/5.6, ISO 400 Canon’s 500mm f4L IS lens vies for the position of my favorite lens. It is always loaded with a camera in wildlife country and its tremendous image stabilization capability enables…
Autumn rain storm over the Plains of Murie, Denali National Park, Alaska Canon 1Ds Mark III, 70-200mm 2.8L, 1/200 sec @f/8, ISO 100 Professional photographers who meet certain qualifications by the National Park Service are allowed to travel the Denali park road in their own vehicle for 10 days out of the summer. The only…
Meares glacier advancing, Unakwik Inlet, Prince William Sound, Alaska. In today’s age of a climate sensitive landscape, there are few advancing glaciers. Most are receding quickly. There is at least one in Alaska–that I’m aware of–that is advancing. Meares glacier flows out of the Chugach mountain range in south central Alaska, meeting tidewater in Unakwik…
Scott’s Peak, Alaska Range, Denali National ParkCanon 1Ds Mark III, 70-200 2.8L IS, 1/1000 sec @ f/5.6, 400 ISO Alaska’s interior, and Fairbanks specifically has seen a lot of rain in recent weeks. A welcomed stretch of clear skies has opened up the last week and I seized a spontaneous opportunity to go flying last…
Looking west at the summit of Mount McKinley reveals both the north and south peaks. One afternoon, it looked like the sky was clearing a bit so I waited and set up my camera for a time lapse sequence of the dissipating clouds. I used Canon’s intervolometer, which is a fancy electronic shutter release that…
Lightroom 2.0 was released three days ago on July 28. The upgrade is $99, and it has paid for itself already. There are a number of improvements, but the most important to me is the localized correction feature. These are non-destructive adjustments, meaning they do not modify the original RAW image data, and they add…