Month: October 2017

Chalice

Read The Story Buy A Print The Story Behind This Photograph: Taken from somewhere along San Joaquin Ridge near the town of Mammoth Lakes, California, on September 6th, 2017 The moon moves surprisingly fast. You’ve probably noticed this a time or two yourself: the moon is sneaking up over the horizon, huge and beautiful and […]

Behind the Lens: How to Shoot the Full Moon

[av_one_full first min_height=” vertical_alignment=” space=” custom_margin=” margin=’0px’ padding=’0px’ border=” border_color=” radius=’0px’ background_color=” src=” background_position=’top left’ background_repeat=’no-repeat’ animation=” mobile_breaking=” mobile_display=”] [av_textblock size=” font_color=” color=” av-medium-font-size=” av-small-font-size=” av-mini-font-size=” admin_preview_bg=”] To be honest, I never really thought I’d have a shot like this in my portfolio. For a long, long time I had very little interest in shooting […]

Create a Milky Way Composite Night Photo in Photoshop. Part 3: Clean Up & Final Touches

Create a Milky Way Composite Night Photo in Photoshop. Part 2: Select & Mask

Learn how to create a Milky Way Composite Night Photo in Photoshop. In this video I cover techniques to create virtually perfect selections and masks for a clean composite. To follow along you need a Milky Way photo plus a photo from the same composition shot during dusk. Part 1: Edit and process the Milky […]

Window to the Sky

Taken in the Pioneer Basin, John Muir Wilderness, high Sierra Nevada mountains in California on July 11th, 2014 At the tail end of a 5-day backpacking trip through the John Muir Wilderness I woke up to that rarest of Sierra sights: clouds in the sky at morning. After shooting the blazingly colorful sunrise near the […]