Picture: Redwood forest panorama, Humboldt Redwoods State Park, Humboldt County, California Click on the photo to see the image larger. I may have previously mentioned in passing that I was working on a pretty big image. Earlier this year I met with a design team working on a project for a new hotel. I was [...]

Picture: El Capitan and Half Dome during a late winter sunset, Yosemite National Park, California This week I had a potential client call and ask about a portfolio image similar to the one above. He asked about having Half Dome lighter. I gave him an example of how (IMHO) poorly trying to lighted Half Dome [...]

Picture: Sunset along the green hills of Bolinas Ridge in Spring, Mount Tamalpais State Park, Marin County, California Two things caused me to post this image today. First, I’ve been following a discussion about the ‘history’ of (over)saturated color landscape photography on David Leland Hyde’s weblog. The second factor is that I was pulling together [...]

Picture: Redbud reflection along the Merced River, California. Photo Courtesy and © Michael Frye Over the recent New Year’s holiday, I had a chance to read the new e-book, Light & Land; Landscapes in the Digital Darkroom, by veteran landscape and Yosemite photographer, Michael Frye. Published as part of the Craft and Vision titles by [...]

Picture: High Tension Power Transmission Lines and Towers in the local hills, near Martinez, California After taking time this year to move my office and catch up on a number of back-burner home & office projects, and the hell that was last year, I’m slowly starting to de-lurk and poke my head back in a [...]

Picture: Bidwell Mansion, Chico, California I tended to include “No HDR” with many of my landscape images posted online. I heard too many people say, “great use of HDR” at a time when I never used any automated HDR process on my images. Not long ago, I finally experimented with a few HDR shots. The [...]

Picture(s): Lava Tube Cave Entrance, Lava Beds National Monument, Modoc County, California. Those people that know me and have seen my image postings around the internet may have seen many of my postings contain the phrase, “No HDR”. The only reason I posted that, and have mentioned before, is that I’d get so many comments [...]

Picture: Early evening light over Mount Diablo from Briones Regional Park, Contra Costa County, California Two great tests today. The first is this test of the hosted embed widget from my PhotoShelter Archive. (It works.) The second, and much more significant venture, is more akin to that Anakin Skywalker’s trek over to the Dark Side. [...]

Pictures: Asilomar State Beach, Pacific Grove, Monterey Peninsula, California. The first is a straight RAW file; the second represents my standard image processing, which took less than 30 seconds, and the third is a “hyper-processed”, highly-saturated image like might often be seen on Flickr. Processing note; the only other manipulation to these images was a [...]

A good number of companies came racing to the aid of photographers in the wale of the Digital Railroad trainwreck. Like purveyors of private ambulance services, many touted the line “let us help save you”. One company that has surfaced is LicenseStream. The company seems to be in a beta roll out, and offers a [...]