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A Guide to Photographing the Palouse Region of Eastern Washington
This is a revised edition of a previous article I did on the Palouse about 6 years ago. I hope it helps when photographing this amazing location! With over 6,000 miles of rolling hills of wheat, barley, lentils [...]
Respect the Ocean
Text and images ©Jack Graham BACKGROUND For many years I have always been interested in photographing the ocean in a different way deviating from the billions of ocean and coastline images made every day. It’s [...]
Critiquing Images … The Importance of Reviewing Your Work
Recently Bill Fortney published an article on his blog (CLICK HERE) about his 5 categories of image effectiveness. Bill and I reach a few workshops together and pretty much have the same view of image reviews a [...]
Tulips of Skagit County, Washington
Typically, I write articles on this blog that have to do with information that might help you be a better photographer. Today’s entry is a bit different. After a great weekend conducting a workshop in Olympic N [...]
Scouting the Olympic Peninsula
Before one of my workshops, I always make a point of getting to the location at least one day prior to the beginning of the event. You never know when a road may be closed, or an area that I may have bee [...]
OPEN WIDE! PROPER USE OF THE WIDE-ANGLE LENS
It seems to me that when it comes to landscape photography, the wide-angle lens is perhaps the most popular lens folks use to capture the vistas and the wide-open spaces often sought out by nature photographers [...]
THE BUSINESS OF NATURE PHOTOGRAPHY
First of all, view this FUJIFILM SPOTLIGHT VIDEO, shot last fall in the Smoky Mountains. It will help you understand a lot of what this article is about. Before I even get going on this article, und [...]
PREPARATION, THE KEY TO SUCCESSFUL PHOTOGRAPHY
As photographers, we all have the desire to make that artistic, compelling image that communicates a story, and our emotions to the viewer every time we depress the shutter. If we don’t why are we photographing [...]
DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE FUJIFILM X-H1 and X-T3 MIRRORLESS DIGITAL CAMERAS
Since the new FUJIFILM X-T3 is now available I have been asked often about the differences I see between the X-T3 and the X-H1. First, each camera serves a different purpose. I’ll talk about most of the [...]
THE BASICS ON CAMERA LENS FILTERS
About a year or so ago I began using lens filters from Breakthrough Photography. I bought them myself, so I don’t owe the nice folks at Breakthrough Photography a great review, but as you’ll see by r [...]