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Orangutan Portrait
April 18, 2017 - Last month, I visited the Tropic World exhibit at the Brookfield Zoo to capture some pictures of the orangutans.
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Going Really Long!
April 18, 2016 - Earlier, I posted an entry about long exposure photography. That entry discussed an image with an exposure time of 104 s...
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Slowing Things Down
April 11, 2016 - One of my photography goals for this year is to create more long exposure pictures. Long exposures provide an opportunit...
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Reaching Out
December 14, 2015 - Whenever possible, I use a tripod. However, sometimes it's impossible to set up a tripod for certain shots. This is ofte...
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Challenging as a Maze
November 25, 2015 - Earlier in the year, photographed a unique subject--a mirror maze! Here are a few images from the photo shoot:
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Long Exposures in Daylight
July 13, 2015 - One way to make a photograph more interesting is for it to be different from other pictures in some way. A couple of day...
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Pull Out All the Stops to Reduce Camera Shake
October 20, 2014 - Whenever possible, I use a tripod to secure my camera and lens. A major benefit of using a tripod is to minimize camera...
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Croppability
September 06, 2014 - I doubt if "croppability" is a word--but for photography it should be!
One of the things I like most about my Nikon D80...
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How Low Can You Go?
February 20, 2014 - For years, as a general rule of thumb, photographers have been taught to select a shutter speed that is no slower than 1...
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Slow Shutter Speeds for Slow Moving Creatures
June 19, 2013 - Earlier this year, I visited the Reptile Fest in Chicago. The event was held in the UIC Pavilion. The facility is not we...
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Frozen Lighthouse
April 03, 2013 - I visited Saint Joseph, Michigan to photograph the historic lighthouses on a cold, Winter afternoon. The outer lighthous...
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Basketball: Using Strobes in Dimly Lit Gymnasiums
January 26, 2013 - It's been a while since I've used flash units while shooting basketball. But, I get a lot of questions from photographer...
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Moving Water
January 16, 2013 - Moving water is rendered as smooth and silky in many photographs. Photographers often use long exposures to allow the mo...
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Slow the Shutter
September 14, 2012 - During my recent trip to Yellowstone National Park, one of the accessories I reached for most often was a neutral densit...
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Blowing in the Wind
August 09, 2012 - Windy conditions are not ideal for capturing close up photographs of flowers. In this case, the flowers were long-stemme...
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Letting the Water Flow
July 23, 2012 - When taking photographs of waterfalls, I generally like to use long exposures. Longer exposures provide time for the wat...
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Using Long Exposures
July 16, 2012 - One of the things that I enjoy about photography is how it enables me to see things in new ways. Using long exposures pr...
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Freezing Action with Strobe
July 09, 2012 - It doesn't always take a fast shutter speed to freeze a moving subject. When a flash unit is the primary light source, o...
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Creating an Abstract by Zooming
June 29, 2012 - In a recent blog post, I shared a technique for creating an abstract by rotating the lens during a long exposure. Anothe...
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Creating an Abstract by Rotating
June 20, 2012 - Another method for creating an abstract is to rotate the lens during a long exposure. I used this technique to capture o...
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Ball on Bat!
May 07, 2012 - Many baseball photographers strive to capture an image of the ball at the moment it is making contact with the bat. This...
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Slow the Shutter for Something Different
May 04, 2012 - One of my favorite things about photography is how the camera can "see" things that we can't see with the human eye. By...
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