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  • Why You Should Avoid Shooting With Small Apertures

    Typically as photographers, we are taught, the smaller the aperture the sharper and crisper your image is going to be. You ever go online and look at an awesome photo’s EXIF data? You ever notice almost all the landscape and hdr photos you see will be shot at f16 or higher? If you’re always shooting high…

  • Fukuoka Airport HDR Photo

    Fukuoka Airport HDR Photo

    This was from my last moments in Japan at the Fukuoka Airport. The photography gods finally appeared at the end there and gave me one last blessing. We ate dinner in a restaurant when the sun lit the sky. Luckily, my Sony A7r wasn’t packed away with the rest of my gear.

  • How To Upgrade Your Mac Pro Graphics Card

    How To Upgrade Your Mac Pro Graphics Card

    I’ve recently had to make the switch over to Premiere CC on my home Mac Pro, but my old 2009 tower didn’t cut it. You need a Nvidea GPU with at least 1GB of video ram to use its Mercury Playback Engine. So in order to get more life out of my old Mac Pro I upgraded its graphics card.…

  • How To Sharpen Your Photos With The High Pass Filter

    How To Sharpen Your Photos With The High Pass Filter

    This is a great Photoshop technique I picked up a few years ago. I’m always trying new things, new plugins, and new software, but I always seem to come back to the High Pass filter as my favorite sharpening trick. It works well on Landscape and HDR Photography.

  • Batteries You Should Buy For The Sony A7, A7r, A7s

    After shooting with the A7r for the last 6 months I’ve decided to do a write-up on batteries and what batteries you should buy for your Sony mirrorless camera.

  • The Golden Rice Terraces

    The Golden Rice Terraces

    After my fourth visit to Japan, I finally got the landscape photo I always wanted. It encompasses everything I love about Japan in a single shot: the golden sunset over the island-filled seas with the rice field terraces in the foreground.  Everything was perfect for this shot, which rarely happens to me. The weather was…

  • How I Got The Shot – Above Tokyo

    How I Got The Shot – Above Tokyo

    My most popular posts often include a breakdown of how I get some of these shots and my different photography techniques. So, with this night-building shot in Tokyo, I’ve decided to do a detailed write-up sharing a few basic techniques because shots like this are a little more complicated than your normal landscape. Above Tokyo…

  • Sakura Explosion – Tokyo Japan

    Sakura Explosion – Tokyo Japan

    I posted this photo on Google+ earlier today, letting people zoom in 100%. With the Zeiss Sonnar 35mm and Sony A7r, with its 36-megapixel sensor and no High Pass filter, it’s amazing how much detail you can get from your images. In Japan, Cherry Blossoms are called Sakura. When they are in season, they are…

  • The Onsens Of Yufuin

    The Onsens Of Yufuin

    We spent a day in Yufuin and a night at the Onsen in Yamashiroya. I wish I had taken more pictures of Yamashiroya because it was super cool. It felt like it was decorated in the ’60s and hasn’t been touched since. There are still magazines and games from that period. And the onsens were very relaxing.…

  • Last Days Of Kyoto

    Last Days Of Kyoto

    The last day in Kyoto was probably the most fun day. However, it’s very crowded this time of year with busloads of tour buses and tourists wherever possible. It didn’t bother me; being 6’3″ likely had something to do with it, but it was also an amiable crowd. The people I was with were all…