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Creating Memorable Landscapes Workshop Update
The landscape workshop, Creating Memorable Landscapes, was held at Starved Rock State Park yesterday. The workshop was well attended and a great success. We spent the morning in the classroom exploring ideas about landscape shooting and critiquing images that fell within the rules of landscape photography as well as some that break the rules as well. Participants ate a box lunch and then went out for a couple of hours to photograph in the woods and canyons of the park. Continue reading
Posted in Announcements, New Images, Workshops
Tagged HDR, images, landscapes, participants, photography, workshops
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Grazing Cows, Red Barns and Rusting Cars
What struck me about this scene near Galena, Illinois was the juxtaposition of the bright red farm buildings in the upper left set in a corner opposition to the grazing cows at the bottom right. Continue reading
Posted in Musings, New Images
Tagged bracketing, exposure, HDR, high dynamic range, images, landscapes, photographs
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RAW or JPEG? Easy Choices for Creating HDR Images
If I had a nickel for every time I heard someone say, “I only shoot RAW” (you could substitute JPEG for RAW here) I would be rich. Truth be told, if one limits one’s self to a single format then, I suggest, that one has established limits that are simply stifling one’s creative choices. Continue reading
Posted in Musings, Tips
Tagged camera, choice, composition, creative limits, exposure, HDR, high dynamic range, highlights, image, jpeg, landscapes, RAW, shadows
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Interest in Workshop Grows
Only yesterday I sent out an email to many of my clients and others who have expressed an interest in staying informed about our studio activities. Continue reading
Posted in Follow-up Information, Workshops
Tagged composition, exposure, focal length, HDR, landscapes, light, option, reservation, Starved Rock
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Creating Memorable Landscapes Workshop October 24th
We begin our season of hands-on Photography Workshops starting in October, 2010. Our first workshop of the season will be held on Sunday, October 24th at Starved Rock State Park in Utica, Illinois. Continue reading
Posted in Announcements, Workshops
Tagged composition, exposure, focal length, HDR, landscapes, light, shadow, Starved Rock
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