Gear Thoughts on Monitor Calibration (with DataColor’s SpyderX) Monitor calibration! No photographer likes it when their painstakingly edited photos look “off” on other devices. So should you color calibrate your monitor? 🤔 Eh, it really, really depends.
Digital Nomad After 4 months on the road, what’s next? 4 months, 4 countries. 🇮🇸🇬🇧 But what’s next? What do you do when you’ve wrapped up most of your sabbatical goals?
Photography Sinking Costs on England’s Jurassic Coast I planned an early dawn shoot this morning in Lulworth. But a few minutes before sunrise, I gave up. 😳 A personal anecdote of the Sunk Cost Fallacy. ⛵️
Photography Image Looks Flat? Try Light Painting in Post Production. How can you bring a “flat” image back to life? 🎨 You can apply the principles of light painting in post production.
Announcements I’m going on a travel sabbatical, and you can too! What if you could take a year long travel sabbatical? ✈️ I’m headed overseas to invest in landscape photography — and you can too!
Photography How neutral tones unlock believable edits and convey drama What makes a landscape image believable? 🤨 Here’s how paying attention to neutral tones unlocks realistic editing and conveys weather, temperature and time of day.
Vlog Leading the Eye Through the Landscape, Pt. II Sometimes dramatic colors and unusual formats like panos mask deeper problems. 🧐 Here’s how critiquing composition, shapes + lighting can help!
Vlog How to Lead the Eye with Composition, Shapes and Lighting What does it mean to “lead the eye” through an image? 😳 Let’s break down how composition + shapes + lighting tell a story and hold the viewer’s attention!
Photography Dealing with criticism as a recovering perfectionist “Good enough” has never been a strong part of my vocabulary. 🏆 But perfectionism is often the enemy of creating useful things — if we can deal effectively with the criticism.
Vlog Survivorship Bias: Why success is alluring but teaches us nothing What’s the most effective way to become a better photographer? We learn from success, right? 📸 Not so much — actually, you should dig through your failed photos.
Announcements Shiny new Yellowscale.com! Another weekend, another website! 📸 Yellowscale.com has a handcrafted, from-scratch taste to it — even if it isn’t certified organic.
Announcements I’m vlogging on YouTube: digital nomad lifestyle + photography! My face in a video player. 🤓 And you thought traveling with one carry-on bag was terrifying! 🎒 I’m vlogging on YouTube!
Photography Landscape photography from my 15 day trip through western Oregon. My second trip to Oregon was epic, challenging and extreme. ❄️🏜🌲🏔🌋 It was also one of the most frustrating trips I’ve taken.
Photography 9 Landscape Photography Techniques to Overcome Editor’s Block How many landscape photos are stuck in your library, unfinished and unpublished? You’re not alone. 😩 Here’s how to get out of editor’s block.
Travel @Fstoppers: Discover Unique Landscape Photography Spots Before Takeoff Amazing photos begin with stunning locations. On Fstoppers.com, I cover techniques to discover unique landscapes without tourists and selfie-sticks — pretty pictures included. 😇
Travel @Fstoppers: 10 Essential Travel Apps for Nomadic Photographers With the right cornucopia of apps, your smartphone is the ultimate travel companion. Digital nomads and travel photographers place particularly stringent requirements on these apps. In my post on Fstoppers.com, we cover
Gear What’s in My Camera Bag for Landscape Photography? Half the fun of being a landscape photographer is nerding out on camera gear. The other half is consolidating my kit so I can travel light as a digital nomad. Here’s what my camera kit looks like for landscape photography trips.
Photo Journal Photo Journal: Spirit Falls Just north of the Oregon-Washington border lies one of the truly hidden gems of the Columbia River Gorge. Spirit Falls has no public trail, and until recently the only known trail down the steep gorge crossed illegally into private land.
Photo Journal Photo Journal: Mount Hood After a fantastic morning at Lost Lake, I expected to take the rest of the day easy and focus on more accessible locations. Trillium Lake was on my bucket list, and according to
Photo Journal Photo Journal: Lost Lake at Mount Hood It’s going on a year since my first trip to Oregon, but there are still so many unfinished shots owing to my inexperience with brilliant snowy backdrops. I decided to tack on
Photo Journal Photo Journal: South Stack Lighthouse in Wales One of my all-time favorite shots came from the lighthouse on Holyhead in north Wales. The prior night, we drove the long haul from Devonshire to the hills of north Wales and Snowdonia
Travel Wish You (Weren’t) Here Tired of the crowd of selfie-snapping tourists? The best photo ops are not bucket list tourist destinations: they’re up a mountain or down a snow-covered back road. Here are 10 of my favorite havens across Europe and the US.
Travel Stuff is ruining your life. Musings from a noob digital nomad. What if life at home looked the same as life on the road? As a noob digital nomad, the main obstacle to this has been the amount of stuff I own.
Travel Hiking, Starving & Freezing on Sentinel Dome Two brothers' escapades during their trek through Yosemite National Park.
Travel 19 Tips for [Inter]national Travelers: Adventurer Edition! Two years ago, I'd never been on a plane. ScotlandJS 2014 changed that. To help you on your journey to conquering continents, I’ve teased out a list of 19 wish-I’d-known-that tips.
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