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Straight from the Camera RAW

jason — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 06:13:18 +0000

Love this shot. Shot at 90 degrees from the shining sun the polarizer had its greatest affect on the blue sky. The sun was obviously from the left and the not so obvious sb-900 (doubly diffused) from the right, just out of the frame to fill in the shadows. I experimented with different f-stops but [...]

August 2010 Alaska Photo Workshop: Maclaren River Edition Day Two

jason — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 14:00:23 +0000

Wow morning came early! The alarm went off at 3:56am and I didn’t want to move. But, alas, photographs wouldn’t wait. A few minutes and a Starbucks Vanilla Frappachino later the rest of the gang met us in the van to head out to the bluff at the other end of the valley. Was it [...]

August 2010 Alaska Photo Workshop: Maclaren River Edition

jason — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 14:00:44 +0000

Wow!!!! What a blast we had this weekend!! Can you tell we had a good time? We had some great participants who asked TONS of great questions and shot some marvelous photographs. We started out at this great field in Delta Junction taking photographs of hay bails and whatever else caught our eye. We eventually [...]

The Cokin P121M ND Grad Filter

jason — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 18:34:36 +0000

The Cokin P121M ND grad filter is a very useful filter to have around. This is a photograph I took last fall. It looks OK but nothing to great. The sky is highlighted with some blinkies where the sun was setting and the foreground was a bit dark. Enter the Cokin P121M ND grad filter. [...]

International Society for Aviation Photography

jason — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 23:27:49 +0000

This week I joined the International Society for Aviation Photography (ISAP). You should give them a look: http://www.aviationphotographers.org/. “International Society for Aviation Photography, Inc. is an international non-profit professional society whose broad range of member contributions span a wide variety of fields including: professional photographers, writers, historians, publishers, trade representatives, pilots and amateur photographers. Membership [...]

Alaska Photo Workshops

jason — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 04:01:17 +0000

The latest Alaska Photo Workshops have now been scheduled for May and July of 2010. These will be great events packed with tons of useful information for the digital photographer. In May we are going to Harding Lake to spend the day shooting and exploring the area. This will be a great time to get [...]

ft. wainwright and the alaska range

jason — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:51:36 +0000

after taking pictures of the moon setting in the northeast i turned to the Alaska Range in the south. the lights from ft. wainwright can be seen below. i used a nd grad filter on this to bring up the really dark foreground in both images.

denali from a distance

jason — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 19:44:36 +0000

denali is in the background (as is mt. foraker). i decided to put something in the forground to “spice” things up a bit. i used the wireless commander mode on the d90 to trigger the gelled sb-900. i had tried lighting the tundra weed from the left side but it didn’t do the scene justice. [...]

more from lake minchumina

jason — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:58:44 +0000

here’s a shot of mt. foraker and dad (and juliet) at lake minchumina and now all of us including cujo! this shot had the sb-900 and sb-600 on camera left to give some fill light. the sun was setting to the right and was extremely hard. I wanted a more soft affect but didn’t have [...]

clover

jason — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 20:41:07 +0000

i just love this top down view of this clover… shot at 1/50 at f4 with the circular polarizer.