by Trent Sizemore | Apr 4, 2019 | Blog, Gear, Technique
A frequently requested topic for the blog has been how to photograph in mixed light (such as sun and shade together). One area will be bright and the other will be dark, so which do you expose for? This great blue heron below is an example of a fully shaded subject...
by Trent Sizemore | Mar 15, 2019 | Blog, Gear, Reviews
Hunt’s Photo & Video let me borrow one of the new Canon EOS R mirrorless cameras while I’m in Florida leading my bird photography workshop, and so far I’ve been very impressed. I really haven’t missed my 5D Mark IV since I got the EOS R. I had...
by Trent Sizemore | Jan 20, 2019 | Blog, Post Processing, Technique
If you regularly edit images on a dark background, in Lightroom or another program, you may be leaving your images too dark (or too bright). See the image below, on a black background, where the image seems to be bright enough. Because you’re referencing against...
by Trent Sizemore | Jan 4, 2019 | Blog, Gear, Technique
Every evening a couple of local foxes make the rounds through the streets just outside our apartment. I’ve seen them during the day a few times, but for the most part they come out around sunset and stay active through sunrise. Photographing wildlife after...
by Trent Sizemore | Jan 4, 2019 | Blog, Photoessays
Images taken during my free time and during September photography workshops in Yellowstone. Early September can be warm and relatively slow, but as the month goes on the cool weather comes in and the wildlife quickly becomes more active. The peak of the elk mating...