Thats right, cue the Doors and crank it up loud so you can feel that deep, dramatic bass moving through your insides – thats how Storm Light feels when its happening to you. And there is nothing in the world quite like that feeling. Allow me to set the scene. The storm has been dumping rain on you steadily for the last 3 hours. You’ve found your shot, based on [...]
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10 Comments Ian and I wrapped up our Olympic National Park Workshop a little over a week ago. We had a great group of photographers from around the globe and a lot fun teaching and making images during some less than ideal conditions in the Pacific Northwest. Everyone in the group was super positive, enthusiastic and contributed a great deal to the learning process. As I reflect on the experience and make [...]
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Finally! The wait is (almost) over. Canon has released its long-awaited 200-400mm lens with a built in 1.4x teleconverter. Pre-orders are available at B&H Photo: Canon EF 200-400mm f/4L IS USM Lens with Internal 1.4x Extender. My guess it that it will be awhile before buyers can get their hands on this lens, but hopefully in the coming weeks we’ll start to get some user reviews and reactions. Canon’s press release is below. [...]
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As a landscape photographer, living in the Pacific Northwest is absolutely amazing. It is a great privilege to call a land of such magnificent and diverse beauty my home. This beauty, combined with the fact that there is something interesting to photograph during just about any time of year, is almost entirely why I moved here from the east coast a few years back. Maybe that is all a bit [...]
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The advent of digital photography has come with a number of challenges, both technical and artistic. The technical challenges are mainly related to acquiring proficiency in image processing programs such as Lightroom and Photoshop. The artistic challenges, curiously enough, arise in part from mastery of these technical challenges. Once competency in the digital darkroom is achieved, some difficult questions emerge, such as: How much computer processing is too much? At what point [...]
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About this time of year, my thoughts sooner or later turn to one of the most magnificent floral displays to be found anywhere. Of course I’m talking about the rhododendron bloom in the redwoods. Nothing can touch my soul faster than the sight of deliciously pink rhodies swirling in fog surrounded by hundreds of Ents™. All this images were taken in Redwoods NP on N California. Truth be told, even [...]
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We all love to capture colorful skies at sunrise and sunset, but there is a color that often goes overlooked by most photographers: blue. This is because our eyes (actually, our brains) don’t always perceive the blue color cast that exists when the sky is covered with clouds. Especially during twilight, more blue light is passing through the clouds than other colors, although human brains tend to do a bit [...]
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Although I am a bit of a “purist” when it comes to my nature images, in the sense that I usually do my best to exclude the “hand of man,” sometimes adding a person to the composition can really help complete the scene. A person in the landscape can introduce a sense of scale to an image, and becomes an obvious and eye-catching reference point. Also, people can add to [...]
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I am excited to be a part of the Dreamscapes Team! Ian, George, Kurt, and Patrik are all truly amazing photographers, and I am honored to participate here. I know Ian already introduced me, but before I truly get started here, I would like to say hello and share a few images with you all. My name is Alex Mody, and I live in Olympia, Washington. Contrary to what Ian [...]
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After a very long and very cold winter in Sweden we are finally starting to see the first signs of spring appearing. To me spring is also the time of year when I start running landscape photography workshops in different parts of Sweden. I kicked off the workshop season the first weekend in April and it feels so good to meet lots of fun people who are eager to learn more about [...]
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I began preparing this to promote the Composition Master Class San Juan Autumnal Workshop, by the authors of the hit new book VISUAL FLOW but that filled up extremely quickly, so I’m just going to post a few things to demonstrate what you could be doing at the same time in 2014 if you were of such a mind. Bear in mind that every place you see here will be [...]
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That’s right, folks—the Evil Empire has just gotten a little bit eviler and a tad more empire-ish. The Dreamscapes Blog Team is expanding once again—all part of our continuing commitment to provide you with first rate education, inspiration, and entertainment in the art of nature photography. Emphasis on entertainment. We began to feel like we were sorely lacking in immature humor on this blog, so we decided to add young buck Alex Mody [...]
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I recently got a question from a reader about whether I use exposure bracketing, and if so, what range of bracketing I typically use. For those of you who are not familiar with exposure bracketing, it is a practice which arose in the days of film to ensure proper exposure. Before digital, photographers did not have the ability to instantly preview their images to check to see if they got exposure right, [...]
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22 Comments I once listened to an interview with a film critic, or some such industry expert that described the newest spate of action films as a collection of “Exacerbated Pixels,” or EP for short. This is not to be confused with EPP which as we all know is Ian’s new term for describing the Epic Patagonia Photos he’s been kind enough to bestow upon us mere mortals. Exacerbated Pixels, as the [...]
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