Photography Essentials

What is essential to you in your photo bag?  That one thing you won't leave home without when you go on a shoot.  Is it dependent on what you're going to be shooting or is it just an essential all of the time?   Have those "essentials" changed over time for you? As I'm sure …

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Fujifilm GFX50S Medium Format Camera – Update

For t hose of you who don't know, I purchased a Fujifilm GFX50S medium format camera and lenses several months ago.  I did an initial Youtube video about my impressions and now I'm back to give some more thoughts to it now that I've spent some time in the field with it.  I've continued to …

Breakthrough Photography Neutral Density Filters

I still use filters in my photography.  I find them indispensable for achieving success in the field and getting the shot as good as possible in camera.  That's my goal, to get the shot as good as I possibly can in camera before I approach the digital darkroom. A better quality file at capture means …

Do you Tripod?

Do you still use a tripod?  That seems to be a more common question these days and it got me thinking about the "lowly" tripod and it's history and how I feel it is still an important aspect of photography. Tripods have been around since the beginning of photography.  Back in the day, the cameras …

Creative Dead Zone?

Do you ever get in to a creative dead zone where you just don't feel any creative juices flowing in you?  Perhaps you don't feel like getting out of bed at oh-dark-thirty to head out for a sunrise, or maybe you don't have the desire to sit inside at the computer and work on any …

Healing Power of Nature

As a landscape photographer, my preferred locations are in the beautiful locations in nature.  And living in the Pacific Northwest, this whole area is amazing beautiful.  I am very fortunate to have so many beautiful landscape locations around me.  What's even more, just traveling around the state during normal life, I am treated to lush …

Why a Fujifilm GFX?

I've been a long time Fuji X camera system aficionado, from the X-T1, X-E1, X-T2 and most recently the newly released X-T3.  I've loved these cameras since they came out. The ergonomics, the logic for how the functions are laid out and most importantly, the incredible image quality that comes out of these cameras.  Even …