We are all told we need to have a unique style in our photographic work, so we strive to find and develop our personal photographic style. Yet, while we search are we even aware of what we are looking for?
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9 Tips for Photographing Frosty Landscapes
As a landscape photographer, there are very few things that get me as excited as seeing my favorite weather app light up with a frost warning for the coming morning. Here are 9 great tips for getting the best photos possible in these magical conditions!
Mastin Labs – Portra Pushed :: Not just for portraits anymore::
Portra Pushed. First why not a little history for you because this isn’t going to be a traditional review as much as it will be just a journal entry, mind dump of my thoughts about Mastin Labs Portra Pushed Pack. But to get there I feel like I should explain.
Thor & Hourman : Strange meeting
It’s all about the light. Amazing light brings perfect shadows. It makes us pick up the camera when feeling uninspired and when we have no time to get to that perfect location. We head to that favorite tree we’ve photographed a million times. We hit up a local park and photograph flowers. We point the camera…
Searching for Shelter – Part 2
In the last post, which you should totally check out first by clicking here, I headed out in search of shelter. Both a literal shelter that exists along a stretch of local trail and in a more intellectual way as I was struggling with my motivation and wondering why I just couldn’t seem to gain any…
Searching for shelter – Part 1
A few weekends ago we had some nice sunny weather and I decided to once again head out and see what I could see along a stretch of the Sturgeon River Trail system. A couple episodes back I had explored briefly a stretch of this same trail but turned and headed back as I was…
Sunny day in the pines
Winter here in North Eastern MN can be frustrating for a photographer. As the snow piles up and access to just get out and hike shrinks, we are limited more and more to just cruising back roads or tromping the same ground as every other photographer out there on a small handful of trails that…
Hoar Frost for days
Some mornings you wake up early and you get the beautiful surprise of a thick, beautiful hoar frost covering the land. It doesn’t happen too often in our neck of the woods where you get a nice heavy frost as winter conditions need to be ideal for it to really pop. When it does happen…
A Lake Superior Adventure
From time to time I like to try to make the few hour drive up to the North Shore of Minnesota’s Lake Superior. It’s an area full of amazing rock structures, cliffs, waterfalls and an amazingly powerful lake that is at times mesmerizing and calming, at times the picture of fury and rage. It’s a…